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Department's Research Shows Importance of Agriculture in Connecticut
Professor and Department Head Rigoberto Lopez led a study of agriculture in Connecticut and found that the industry provides $3.5 billion per year in sales, an output that translates to $1000 per Connecticut resident. The industry also generates 20,000 jobs statewide, two-thirds of which are from farming alone.

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UConn Alumnus Gives $1 Million to Support Agriculture Studies
Charles J. Zwick '50, '51, has donated $1 million the Food Marketing Policy Center, to be renamed the Charles J. Zwick Center for Food and Resource Policy, pending approval from the University's Board of Trustees.

Click here to read the recent article in UConn Today.

Stephen Swallow joins the Department as Full Professor

Dr. Swallow's appointment includes a one-third allocation of his time for multi-disciplinary research with UConn's Center for Environmental Sciences and Engineering (CESE).

Dr. Swallow has worked as a professor at the University of Rhode Island's Department of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics...read more


Yizao Liu will join the Department in Fall 2011 as Assistant Professor

She earned her undergraduate degree at Renmin University in China in 2006, and her Master's degree from University of Texas-Austin in 2008. She is expected to complete her Ph.D at the University of Texas at Austin in May 2011. Her dissertation is "Three Essays on Fuel Efficiency and Vehicle Demand Dynamics."...read more


Click Here to view the Spring 2011 ARE Newsletter.

Click Here to view the Fall 2010 ARE Newsletter.

Professor Robert Pomeroy has edited the recently published Small-scale Fisheries Management: Frameworks and Approaches for the Developing World This book will provide a guide on new and alternative management methods for small-scale fisheries.

Click Here to view a presentation given by Professor Robert Pomeroy on the social impacts of MPAs at the The 5th annual Kathryn S. Fuller Symposium, New Perspectives on MPA Performance: Linking Knowledge to Action. Dr. Pomeroy's presentation begins at 57:33.

Research quantifying the contribution of the state's $1 billion dairy industry was instrumental in aiding in the creation of Public Act 09-229, which allocates funding from deed recording fees to the state's dairy farmers for two years. Click here to continue reading the article.

Visitors from Kenya participated in the Learning for International Development (L.I.D.) program hosted by the Department. Members of Kenya's Ministries of Finance and Agriculture attended a series of lectures on the topic of negotiation in August, 2009. Click here to continue reading this article.

John Mott, M.S. '00 recently returned from a one-year voluntary assignment to Afghanistan with the USDA to help rebuild the country's agricultural sector. An agricultural economist with the USDA's Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration in Denver, CO, John served as a USA Provincial Reconstruction Team agricultural advisor in the Khost Provincial Reconstruction Team. Click here for the news release from the USDA.

New courses for Fall 2009! ARE 444: Economics of Energy and the Environment and ARE 3436: Economics of Integrated Coastal Management. Click here for full course descriptions.

Congratulations Assistant Professor in Residence Syma Ebbin, a winner of UConn's 2008-2009Environmental Leadership Award with Avery Point Campus Environmental Awareness Team (including Christine Green, Jamieson Densmore)for their dedication and contributions to making UConn and environmentally sustainable campus.

Congratulations to Robert Pomeroy, winner of the Excellence in Outreach Award for 2009 from the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources.

Congratulations to Umi Muawanah, the recipient of funding from the Center for Environmental Sciences and Engineering (CESE). Umi will spend the summer in Indonesia working with non-governmental organizations conducting a field survey and collecting secondary data on marine protected areas (MPAs). MPAs are a promising approach to conserving both the habitat of fish stock and feeding the poor in developing countries in a sustainable way.

Rigoberto Lopez, Professor and Department Head, testified before the Connecticut Legislature on the Connecticut dairy industry in February, 2009. Please click here to read his testimony.

Food Marketing Policy Center Director Ronald Cotterill & Adam Rabinowitz, Graduate Research Assistant, provided testimony to the Connecticut Legislature Environment Committee on February 18, 2009 on the need for new milk pricing policies. Please click here to read their testimony.

John Tortorella, an eighth-semester senior majoring in Resource Economics is using what he's learned in the classroom to make an impact. Click here for an article.

ARE Graduate Kevin Molloy (B.S. '93, M.S. '95) was recently chosen by UConn Magazine as one of their "40 Under 40", the most outstanding alums of the University under 40 years of age. Please click here to continue reading about Kevin.

A January 2008 journal article in the Southern Economic Journal ranks UConn in the top 15th in the field of "Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics." Click here to read.

MIT Economics Professor Jerry Hausman will be conducting a seminar on February 6, 2009 at the Dodd Center Auditorium, that will include an application to supermarket shopping choices. Click here to view the flyer on the event.

William Finch, (B.S. '79), mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut, has been selected as the CANR speaker for this year. To read a recent article about Finch in UCONN Magazine's summer issue, click here.

Click here for the Fall 2008 Departmental Newsletter!

Alissa Becker was featured in the College Journal for her work on sustainable office guidelines. Click here to read the article.

Department Head Rigoberto Lopez was recently featured in the College Journal. Click here to read the article (pdf).

Congratulations to Kathleen Segerson, professor of Economics with a joint appointment in Agricultural and Resource Economics at UConn, for her recognition as a 2008 AAEA Fellow. Kathy is also this year’s President of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.

Congratulations to Rebecca Cleary (B.S. '05, M.S. '07), the winner of the American Agricultural Economics Association's Outstanding Master's Thesis Award for her thesis "The Impact of Wal-Mart Supercenters on Incumbents' Pricing Conduct: The Case of the Dallas/Fort Worth Milk Market.

Graduate student Damiana Serafini was profiled in the June 12, 2008 issue of The Wilton Bulletin in an article about her interest in and study of biofuels.Click here to read the full article.