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Alumni, friends and faculty, please provide financial support to enrich the department’s educational programs. The Agricultural and Applied Economics Improvement Fund supports many events that promote economic learning and the intellectual exchange of ideas. Additional support is needed for the Improvement Fund, as well as, endowments for scholarships, leadership awards, and a distinguished professorship. For more information, please see Enrichment Programs.
Agricultural & Applied Economics
2008 Awards for Students, Faculty and Staff Presented at ConnerConnects
Graduate Student Awards:
Uthra Raghunathan - 2008 Claudia DePalma Davis Outstanding M.S. Student Award.
Doris Sande - 2008 Outstanding Ph.D. Student Award.
Zibin Zhang - 2008 Rod Ziemer Outstanding Ph.D. Paper Award for “Mitigating Volatile U.S. Gasoline Prices and Internalizing External Costs: A Win-Win Fuel Portfolio”
Joseph N. Price - 2008 Outstanding M.S. Paper Award for “Identity Preservation Markets: Estimating Non-GM Soybeans and Organic Wheat Premiums”.
Undergraduate Student Awards:
Jason Mock - 2008 Outstanding Agricultural and Applied Economics Major.
Bo Faircloth - 2008
Outstanding Agribusiness Major.
Andrew Menaquale -2008 Outstanding Environmental Economics and Management Major.
Betsy MacMillan - 2008 Outstanding Leadership Award.
Congressional Agricultural Fellowships Awarded for the Summer of 2008:
Ward Black (AG Econ) will work in the office of Senator Saxby Chambliss.
Shannon Yee (EEM) will work in the office of Congressman Jim Marshall
Brooke Heinz (EEM) will work in the office of Senator Johnny Isakson
Scholarship Recipients:
Kimberly Darnton, a fourth year agricultural economics major from Henderson, NV, is the recipient of the $1500 Ag Georgia Farm Credit Association Scholarship.
Zachary Taylor Murphy, a fourth year agribusiness major from Moultrie, GA, is the recipient of the $1500 Ag Georgia Farm Credit Association Scholarship.
Matthew O’Meara, an incoming freshman from Powder Springs, GA majoring in environmental economics and management, is the recipient of the $1500 Ag Georgia Farm Credit Association Scholarship.
Katie Ann Williams, a second year agribusiness major from Madison, GA, is the recipient of the $1500 Ag Georgia Farm Credit Association Scholarship.
Mary Alice Jasperse, a first year environmental economics and management major from Jasper, GA, is the recipient of the $1500 Firor Memorial Scholarship.
Shannon Yee, a fourth year environmental economics and management major from Alpharetta, GA, is the recipient of the $1500 Firor Memorial Scholarship.
Preston Cox, a fourth year environmental economics and management major from Marietta, GA, is the recipient of the $2000 Co-Bank Scholarship.
Kayla Calhoun, a second year environmental economics and management major from Colquitt, GA, is the recipient of the $2000 Tate Brookins Scholarship.
Ashley Dronenburg, a third year environmental economics and management major from Lawrenceville, GA, is the recipient of the $2000 Tate Brookins Scholarship.
Analise Peters, a third year environmental economics and management major from Stone Mountain, GA, is the recipient of the $2000 Tate Brookins Scholarship.
Arthur Blount, a first year environmental economics and management major from Knoxville, TN, is the recipient of the $1000 Tom Frazier Scholarship
Ward Black, a third year agricultural economics major from Commerce, GA,
is the recipient of the $1500 Georgia Cooperative Council Scholarship.
Faculty Awards
Dr. Jim Epperson was presented the Outstanding Faculty Member Award by the Agricultural and Environmental Economics Club.
Dr. Michael Wetzstein was presented the Outstanding Faculty Member Award by the Graduate Student Association.
Staff Awards
Jo Anne Norris was presented the Outstanding Staff Member Award by the Agricultural and Environmental Economics Club.
Donna Ross was presented the Outstanding Staff Member Award by the Graduate Student Association.