Congratulations to Phil Pardey, who received two notable awards at the recent Annual Conference of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (AARES) in Queenstown, New Zealand.  Phil was one of two individuals to be named AARES Distinguished Fellow. 

In addition, Phil, along with his co-authors Julian Alston and Roley Piggott, received the AARES Quality of Communication Award for their 2006 book published by IFPRI, Agricultural R&D in the Developing World: Too Little, Too Late?  Both awards were given at a dinner on Wednesday, February 14th. 

Well done, Phil, on two well-deserved awards!

February 26, 2007 - Elton Mykerezi, New Faculty Member:

Elton Mykerezi, Ph.D. candidate at Virginia Tech, has accepted an offer to join our department as an assistant professor in regional economics. He will be moving to the Twin Cities in August.

Elton will bring solid training, energy, a sense of curiosity, and a spirit of collaboration to this position. We will have an informal reception to welcome Elton when he joins us. In the meantime, he can be reached by email at elmykere@vt.edu. - Rob King

February 13, 2007 - AgEcon Search Wins Award:

AgEcon Search has been selected as this year’s recipient of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Science and Technology Section (STS) Oberly Award for Bibliography in the Agricultural or Natural Sciences.   

AgEcon Search co-founders Louise Letnes, Librarian, University of Minnesota, and Patricia Rodkewich, former Reference Bibliographer, University of Minnesota, and contributor Julie Kelly, Reference Librarian and Instruction Coordinator, University of Minnesota, will receive a plaque and cash prize at the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in Washington D.C. during the STS Program on Monday, June 25, 2007, at 8:00 a.m.

“AgEcon Search is an outstanding example of a successful and highly used subject bibliography in electronic format,” said award committee co-chairs Martin Kesselman and Paul Kelsey.  “AgEcon Search is a wonderful example of an effort to manage the grey literature of a discipline in an accessible and easily used format.”

AgEcon Search includes publications emanating from over 150 academic institutions, professional societies, and government agencies, and offers full text access to literature not always covered in the major agricultural and economic indexes. With over 144,00 visits in 2005 and 1.25 million document downloads since 2001, AgEcon Search continues to offer enormous benefits to researchers in field of agricultural economics.

AgEcon Search is maintained and co-sponsored by the University of Minnesota Libraries, the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota, and the American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA).

The Oberly Award was established in 1923 in memory of Eunice Rockwood Oberly. This biennial award is given in odd-numbered years for the best English-language bibliography in the field of agriculture or a related science.

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