The GSO hosts weekly Brown Bag seminars on Tuesdays from 11:50 a.m. to 1 p.m. in room 75, Morrill Hall of Agriculture.
Contact Samantha Padilla for any questions regarding the Brown Bag seminars in 2018/2019.
FALL 2018 SCHEDULE
SPRING 2017 SCHEDULE
FALL 2017 SCHEDULE
For Brownbag seminars from Spring semester 2015 to Spring semester 2017, click here.
Contact Samantha Padilla for any questions regarding the Brown Bag seminars in 2018/2019.
FALL 2018 SCHEDULE
- Sept 4, 2018 "Getting Ready for the Job Market" - AFRE Job Placement Committee
- Sept 11, 2018 "How I went from the #84 Ag Econ Department to the #5 Ag Econ Department" - Dr. Trey Malone
- Sept 18, 2018 "Regression Adjustment in Experiments with Heterogeneous Treatment Effects" - Dr. Jeff Wooldridge
- Sept 25, 2018 "Ethics in Ag Economics" - April Ross, Dr. Bob Myers, and Dr. Scott Swinton
- Oct 2, 2018 "CVs, Cover Letters, and Websites" - AFRE Job Placement Committee
- Oct 9, 2018 "Competitiveness of Domestic Rice under Different Production and Processing Technologies in Nigeria: Application of Policy Analysis Matrix" - Wellington Osawe
- Oct 16, 2018 "Milk Produced Under Certified Labor Conditions: Are U.S. Consumers Willing to Pay for It and Does Prior Information Impact Their Behavior?" - Danielle Kaminski
- Oct 23, 2018 "Values Blowing in the Wind: Buyer Uncertainty in Valuing Neighboring Wind Farms" - Asa Watten
- Oct 30, 2018 "Shifts in Main Occupation by Destination of Youth Migrating Internally in Tanzania" - Evgeniya Moskaleva, "Effects of School Electrification on Academic Outcomes in Kenyan Primary Schools, " - J Koima
- Nov 6, 2018 "Interview Skills and Etiquette" - AFRE Job Placement Committee
- Nov 13, 2018 "Pay, Talk or 'Whip' to conserve forests: Framed Field Experiments in Zambia" - Dr. Hambulo Ngoma
- Nov 27, 2018 "Impacts of Youth Migration on the Livelihood of Households Left Behind: Evidence from Tanzania" - Evgeniya Moskaleva
- Dec 4, 2018 "Persistent Poverty among Subpopulations in the United States: Is it a Poverty Trap?" - Samantha Padilla
SPRING 2017 SCHEDULE
- January 16 - "Getting Ready for the Job Market" - Graduate Student Job-Placement Committee: Prof. Maria Porter, Prof. Melissa McKendree, Prof. Mywish Maredia, and Prof. Soren Anderson
- January 23 - "Using Social Media in a Professional Setting" - Danielle Kaminski and Samantha Ward
- January 30 - "The importance of taste in the valuation of food product attributes: The case of extra virgin olive oil" - Petjon Ballco
- February 6 - "How to use ArcGIS program for climate change study" - Jina Yu
- February 13 - "Illiquidity Contagion and the Pricing of Commonality Risk" - Nardos Beyene
- February 27 - "Attention and choice: Use of eye-tracking in choice behavior research of nutritional claims. An empirical evidence on yogurts in Spain" - Petjon Ballco
- March 13 - "Paper writing and presentation skills" - Prof. Scott Swinton, Prof. David Ortega, and Prof. Soren Anderson
- March 20 - "Irrigation water demand: price elasticities and climatic determinants in the Great Lakes region" - Ari Kornelis
- March 27 - "Has Our Government Spent $21 Trillion in Unauthorized Government Spending without Telling Us?" - Prof. Mark Skidmore
- April 10 - "2017-2018 Job Market Debriefing" - Graduate Student Job-Placement Committee: Prof. Maria Porter, Prof. Melissa McKendree, Prof. Mywish Maredia, and Prof. Soren Anderson
- April 17 - "Unit Quiz Submission Time’s Relationship to Course Grades in A Flipped Classroom" - Danielle Kaminski
- April 24 - "Factors Associated with Young Adults' Migration Decisions: Evidence from Tanzania" - Evgeniya Moskaleva
FALL 2017 SCHEDULE
- September 12 - "The Effects of Reference Price and External Price Information on Choice Behavior: Evidence from Two Food Choice Studies" - Dr. Vincenzina Caputo
- September 19 - "The Art of Writing an Academic Paper and Conducting Research" - Dr. Thomas Reardon
- September 26 - "Overview of CANR Career Services" - Jill Cords
- October 3 - "A Bag of Tips: Preparing for an Academic Interview" - Dr. Melissa McKendree
- October 10 - "Effect of Processing Steps on Microbial Population and Mycotoxin Profile of Ogiri" - Ademola Oluwatoyin
- October 24 - "Market Scenarios of Traditional and Novel Food Products" - Dr. Giovanni Sogari
- October 31 - "GIS Services at MSU Library and New Developments in GIS" - Amanda Tickner
- November 7 - "Electricity Shortage, Emissions Taxes, and the Value of Renewable Energy" - Miguel Castro
- November 21 - "Influence of Nigeria Agricultural Insurance Policy on Risk Management among Small Scale Farmers in Kogi State, Nigeria" - Ufedo Monday Shaibu
- November 28 - "Government Intervention in Craft Beer: Drunken Regulation with Intoxicated Incentives" - Dr. Donald "Trey" Malone
For Brownbag seminars from Spring semester 2015 to Spring semester 2017, click here.