Academics
Undergraduate Programs
- Agricultural and Food Business Management
- Applied Economics
Graduate Programs
- M.S.
- Ph.D.
What's in YOUR garbage? Applied Economics grad student Vanee Dusoruth is conducting a research study examining food-waste habits of more than 120 Maplewood households. Read more about her research and the implications of food-waste.
Professor Bill Gartner and ApEc grad student Elliot Charette conduct a market feasibility study on Minnesota's state bird, the Common Loon, in efforts to support the National Loon Center being built in Crosslake, MN. "I cannot believe here in Minnesota, with our state bird being the common loon, we don't have anything like this already," says Dr. Gartner.
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Bixuan Sun wondered if Energy Star appliances really saved as much as the stickers say. Her data and conclusions are revealed in her work, "Heterogenous direct rebound effects: Theory and evidence from the Energy Star program."
Has the Honeycrisp been a good thing for consumers? Applied Economics grad student Yanghao Wang discusses the implications in his piece in the Minnesota Applied Economist.
The new face of US science. The availability of faculty jobs has not kept pace with the number of biomedical scientists who have entered the job market since 2004. ApEc grad student Jose Pacas and colleagues present census data showing how the biomedical workforce is fundamentally different to those of past generations. Read more ...
