Kansas State University

• Nathan Hendricks earns Emerging Scholar Award from SAEA
• Bryan Schurle earns Mugler Outstanding Teaching Award
• Christine Wilson Completes the Food Systems Leadership Institute
• Christine Wilson earns College of Agriculture Faculty of the Semester
• Agricultural Economics Faculty Promoted
• Grants Announced to Support Economic Growth for Rural Communities

• Corey Fortin earns Alumni Association’s Distinguished Young Alumni Award
• John Niemann earns College of Agriculture Outstanding Young Alumnus Honor
• Josh Roe is Promoted to Assistant Secretary for Kansas Department of Agriculture
• Wayne Stoskopf is Appointed to Senator Pat Roberts’ Senior Staff
• Matt Wolters Receives Huck Boyd Institute Leader of the Year Award for Agribusiness
• Jake Worcester is New President and CEO of Kansas 4-H Foundation

• K-State Farm Bill Team Reaches More than 4,000 Kansans
• ACCC Conference Celebrates 20 Year Milestone
• Master of Agribusiness Professional Development Event: Risky Business!
• 2015 Risk and Profit Conference Focuses on Drought

Scholarship and Awards Banquet

When: Friday, Sept. 18, 2015
Where: Bluemont Hotel

Alumni Tailgate

When: Saturday, Sept. 19, 2015
Where: Cat Town

More information will be announced this summer.
If you have questions, please contact Judy Maberry at judym@ksu.edu or 785-532-4493.
http://www.ageconomics.k-state.edu/alumni-resources/banquet/index.html

Agricultural Economics Emeritus Faculty and Friends Scholarship Fund – A Q&A Session with Fred Delano

The Ag Econ Emeritus Faculty and Friends (EFFS) Fund is established by departmental emeritus faculty to provide scholarships for graduate students or prospective graduate students, or undergraduate student admitted to the graduate program in agricultural economics at Kansas State University whose graduate program benefit the Kansas agricultural economy.

Amanda Erichsen: As an Emeritus Faculty of this department, what importance does this fund represent towards strengthening the caliber of students that graduate from our degree programs?

Fred Delano: The value is at the margin, to use a term from from Ag Econ 101.  The Founders of the EFFS Fund envisioned providing the Department with a competitive edge financially to attract top graduate school candidates to enhance our nationally recognized K-State program. The Founders also recognized a desire of non-alumni to ‘give back’ to a department and an institution providing a career of benefits.

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