Kudos
2009
- Tom Marsh was promoted to Professor, August 2009
- Eric Jessup was promoted to Associate Research Professor, August 2009
- Brady Horn accepted a tenure track Assistant Professor potion in the Department of Economics at the University of New Mexico.
- Drew Hanks received an RA Excellence award from the GPSA.
- Evgeniy Perevodchikov received the Spring 2009 RA/TA Excellence Award.
- Al Melhim accepted a two year position at the University of Guelph, where part of his research focus will be the study of the economics of pollination.
- Fafanyo Asiseh received the 2nd Krautkraemer "Pay it Forward" Scholarship.
- Dr. Jeffrey LaFrance was awarded the Distinguished Professorship in Agricultural and Resource Economics.
- Adrienne Ohler accepted a tenure track position in the Department of Economics at Illinois State University
2008
- Hayley Chouinard, Outstanding Mentor for 2008
- Ken Casavant received the Sahlin Faculty Excellence Award for Leadership.
- Ana Espinola, IDRC, 2nd Place Annual Global Development Award
- Jia Yan, International Exhibition of Inventions, Silver Medal (HaiDex)
- Andrew Hanks, GPSA, Excellence in Research Award
- Sanatan Shreay, University Teaching Assistant Excellence Award
- Saad Alshahrani, Teaching Assistant Excellence Award in Economics
- Qiujie Zheng and Evgeniy Perevodchikov, PhD students, received the AAEA Foundation Travel Grant Awards.
- Hayk Khachatryan has been awarded a travel grant from the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association to present a paper at the IAMA Conf, in Calif. He also received a WSU Graduate School Travel grant to present a paper at the Canadian Transportation Research Forum.
- Lia Noqueira received a travel grant award from the WAEA to present a paper at the WAEA conference in Montana.
- Ron Mittelhammer has been elected President of AAEA
- Rashmita Basu, PhD student, and Robby Rosenman presented their paper at the AEA meetings in New Orleans January 2008.
- Chris Miller gets US State Department Internship -- In London!! Chris is an SES major who took some initiative, applied for one of the 1500 internships offered by the US State Department, and got it! Pending security clearance, Chris will be spending the summer working as a (paid) intern at the US Embassy in London.
2007
- Hayley Chouinard is rated #1 (Theoretical Economics) and #2 (Health Economics and Policy) regarding most frequently downloaded articles from the Berkeley Electronic Press, August 2007.
- Ron Mittelhammer was elected as the first-ever President of Econometrics Section of the AAEA in 2007.
- Ken Casavant and Eric Jessup received the Transportation Research Forum Best Paper in Agricultural and Rural Transportation Category.
- Mike McCullough and Corey Walters, PhD students, received the AAEA Graduate Student Travel Grants to travel to the AAEA meetings in Portland, OR. Summer 2007.
- Jill McCluskey was promoted to Full Professor, on August 16, 2007.
- Tristan Skolrud, was awarded the CAHNRS Outstanding Freshman of the Year, 2007.
- Faysal Fahs, PhD Student, received the GPSA Teaching Assistant Excellence Award, 2007.
- Hayley Chouinard was nominated as an outstanding mentor at WSU through the Women & Leadership Forum, 2007.
- Hamilton Galloway, PhD student, had a poster accepted for the North American Freight Transportation Data Workshop, May 2007.
- Hamilton Galloway and Hayk Khachatryan, PhD students, were awarded registration grants from the Graduate and Professional Student Association, 2007.
- Lia Nogueira, PhD Student, was awarded a special research grant from the AAEA Foundation to further her research on the economics of sanitary and phytosanitary regulations in the Washington State Apple Industry, 2007.
- Lillie McComb, MA Student (2006), took a position with the USDA in Washington DC as a Budget Analyst for the Farm Service Agency.
- Lia Nogueira, 2006-2007 Thomas S. Foley Fellowship.
- V. Lane Rawlins will be joining the School in the later part of May 2007.
2006
- Sridar Komar, PhD Student (2006), took a position with the Morgan Stanley Company as a Senior Statistical Analyst. 2006
- Vicki McCracken returns as a full-time faculty member in the School of Economic Sciences (12/6/06)
- Jill McCluskey and five graduate students, "In Pursuit of PhD's" article
- Junfei Bai and Caiping Zhang received the WAEA Graduate Student Travel Grants to travel to the WAEA annual meetings in Anchorage, Alaska, Summer 2006.
- Junfe Bai received the AAEA Graduate Student Travel Grants to travel to the AAEA annual meetings in Long Beach, CA, Summer 2006. Junfei Bai also received travel grant support from the Graduate School of Washington State University, 2006.
- Junfei Bai also received dissertation travel fellow from International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium Meetings (IATRC), St. Petersburg, FL, December, 2006.
- Ken Casavant, received the 2006, Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute Lifetime Achievement Award.
- Clark Bishop, MA student, was awarded the National Dairy Leadership Graduate Scholarship from the National Milk Producers Federation, 2006.
- Cory Pickelsimer (MA, AgEcon, 2002), will become the new Agricultural Attache for the U.S. Embassy in Bangkok.
- Hayley Chouinard featured in the WSU Faculty/Staff Website. May 2006.
- Ron Mittelhammer and Alok Anand's article "Food exports into India depend on many variables." appeared in WSU Today Online on May 10, 2006.
2005
- Mariam Lankoande (Ph.D. WSU SES, 2005) has been awarded an Honorable Mention from the American Agricultural Economics Association (2006) for her dissertation entitled "Three Essays on Wildfire Economics and Policy."
- Tom Worley was offered and accepted a position as the Director of OSU's Off-Campus Research Center. (2005).
- Ken Casavant and Eric Jessup in the Transportation Research Group was the lead-off featured research program in the Research Highlights Brochure issued by Director Ralph Cavalieri.
- Dan Bernardo was elected to serve on the AAEA Foundation Board (2005-2008).
- Jill McCluskey was elected to serve on the AAEA Executive Board (2005-2008).
- Marco Costanigro, Yucan Liu, Lia Nogueira, Poomtham Rangkakulnuwat, Cory Walters, Amy Puenpatom, and Caiphing Zhang received Grad School Travel Grants (2005).
- Marco Costanigro, Ying Hu, Abdul Razack, Sridar Komar, Selma Kavezeri, and Mariam Lankoande received WAEA Travel Grants (2005).
- Aaron Benson and Yucan Liu received AAEA Travel Grants (2005).
- Aaron Benson was awarded a Foley Institute Fellowship for his research with Ray Huffaker and Rollin Hotchkiss at the Albrook Hydraulics Laboratory at WSU, relating to the economic dynamics of dam removal.
- Jill McCluskey and Maria Louriero have a lead article in the April 2005 issue of the Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, "Reputation and Production Standards"
- Ricardo Diaz Carcamo passed his oral exams and now has his Masters. 2005. He is taking a position as a Product Manager with Pace International, LLC, in Wapato, WA.
- Steve Peterson, Ph.D. Ag Econ, was selected as the U.S. Dept. of Transportation "University Transportation Centers Student of the Year" for his work in transportation research.
- Hayley Chouinard and Jill McCluskey received a grant proposal from USDA's National Research Initiative Competitive Grant Program, "Grocery Store Shelf Labels, Nutrition, and Pricing Information, and Consumer Choice." It was funded for $257,039 over 24 months.
- John Yoder authored an article in the new issue of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, "Estimating the Structure of Market Reaction to News: Information Events and Lumber Futures Prices."