OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
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We use economic tools to understand and help solve society’s problems, from maximizing local business vitality to limiting environmental degradation and climate change.
We offer undergraduate degrees in Agricultural and Food Business Management and in Environmental Economics and Policy. Both programs offer training in economics and quantitative analysis applied to agricultural, environmental, business, and policy issues.
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We award PhD, MS, and MA degrees in Applied Economics. The program includes core courses in economic theory, econometrics, and other quantitative methods. Concentration areas include the economics of natural resources and environment, trade and development, marine resources, and rural development.
Our PhD students complete a research project during their second year in the program, and each year the department presents an award for the best Second Year Paper. In 2019-2020, the best Second Year Paper award goes to Rusty Dame for...
AEC PhD student Thamanna Vasan recently led a team of interns from Oregon State University and Southern Oregon University as a Data Science for the Public Good graduate fellow and mentor.
The team worked closely with rural...
James Sterns has just been selected to receive the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association’s Outstanding Choices Article Award for “Is the Emerging U.S. Hemp Industry Yet Another Boom–Bust Market for U.S. Farmers?”!
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Forbes Magazine has an article about a new paper on digital agriculture by Professor John Antle, along with Bruno Basso from Michigan State University, that was recently published in the journal Nature Sustainability.
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The Dean of the College of Agriculture, Alan Sams, announced that Dr. Penny Diebel will be stepping down from her position as Assistant Dean to return to her faculty position in the Department of Applied Economics. While the exact effe...