On Friday, May 12, the department held its annual Graduation Celebration. More than two hundred people gathered to honor AAE’s Class of 2023. The graduates, dressed in their caps and gowns, radiated a sense of …
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AAE Statement in Support of our Diverse Community
To Members of the AAE CommUNITY: Last week the public became aware of a video posted on social media by a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in which the student makes several racist, detestable …
Undergraduate Open House
You’re Invited! AGRICULTURAL AND APPLIED ECONOMICS (AAE) Undergraduate Open House Friday, February 24, 2023 4:00-6:00 p.m. Taylor Hall, 427 Lorch Street Join us for a casual meet & greet Network with fellow AAE students …
Greetings from Guanming Shi, Chair and Professor, Renk Agribusiness Institute
Greetings from Madison! As the fall semester comes to a close, I am excited to be writing to introduce myself as the new chair of the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics (AAE). I have …
Alumnus Jennifer Raynor, PhD ’17, returns to UW to as faculty member
Raynor holds two degrees from UW-Madison, an M.S. in environmental resources and a PhD in agricultural and applied economics. As a graduate student, Raynor worked with AAE professor Dan Phaneuf investigating the economic benefits to …
Adam Theising PhD ‘21 Awarded the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association’s (AAEA) prestigious Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Honorable Mention
In his dissertation, “Essays on the economic valuation of air, water, and climate pollution”, compilation of three essays, Theising uses property markets to measure environmental preferences, exploits ‘big data’, and innovates in both structural and …
Study finds higher unemployment rates due to COVID-19 in rural counties that rely on dairy and animal agriculture
Selecting three states, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan, chosen for their unique agricultural sectors, AAE faculty Andrew Stevens and Dan Bromley, faculty emeritus, examined data from rural counties to compare unemployment rates between these sectors. The …
Marin Skidmore PhD ’20 and Kait Sims PhD x’22, receive grant
Led by Holly Gibbs, faculty in the Department of Geography and Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, the GLUE lab was one of twelve recipients of a 2021 seed grant from UW-Madison Global Health Institute. The …
Nouhoum Traoré PhD ’18, wins award from International Association of Agricultural Economics (IAEAE)
Traoré came to the US from Mali as a teenager, knowing no English. He earned both a bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Hunter College, continuing on to earn a second master’s degree from the Kennedy …
Preliminary report released on economic impacts of on Wisconsin farms reducing nitrogen losses
Since its introduction in 2002, NR151, the Wisconsin State Legislature Administrative Code addressing runoff management has had several updates; the most recent effort introduces new standards and prohibitions intended to reduce nitrate concentrations in groundwater …