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Classroom Office Building? It's now Ruttan Hall (10/19/2010)
It's official: Classroom Office Building, home to the Applied Economics department and the College of Continuing Education, is now known as Ruttan Hall. The signs are changed and the official renaming ceremony took place Monday, Oct. 18. The new name honors the late Regents Professor Vernon Ruttan, who was a member of the applied economics faculty for more than 40 years and an internationally known authority on agricultural and economic development.
'Sustainably Feeding the World' on campus today (10/18/2010)
Three leaders of worldwide agricultural research centers will discuss how increasing global demands for food can be addressed in sustainable ways during a forum today on the St. Paul campus. All three panelists are directors-general of international research institutes that are part of the 15-member network known as the Consultative Group on International Research Centers. The panelists include Carlos Sere, who leads the International Livestock Research Institute based in Nairobi; Shenggen Fan of the International Food Policy Research Institute based in Washington, D.C.; and Ruben Echeverria of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture, based in Cali, Colombia. Their discussion will be streamed live this afternoon via UMConnect. Echeverria, pictured at left, will receive the university's Distinguished Leadership for Internationals Award.
Project will examine economics of organic transition (10/13/2010)
Minnesota economists will study the economic costs associated with transitioning from traditional to organic farming through a new $1.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Led by Department of Applied Economics professor Rob King, the four-year project is aimed at gathering data about costs and returns for farmers making the switch to organic farming and is currently seeking farmers to participate.
U of M-led study: Bt corn has added economic benefits (10/8/2010)
Transgenic corn’s resistance to pests has benefitted even non-transgenic corn, a new study shows. The study, led by Department of Entomology professor and head William Hutchison, is published in the Oct. 8 edition of the journal Science.
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