News & Notes
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The Review of Regional Studies 40(3)
is now online. Click the link above for a list
of articles. You still need your username
(generally your email address) and password to read
this issue. Very soon, when 41(1) is
published, all issues will become free and open!
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The 2012 Conference in Charlotte, NC drew a great
crowd of 150 participants.
Nancy White
(Bucknell)
presented an eye-opening fellow's address on the
impacts of Shale Gas drilling in Pennsylvania, and
our Keynote plenary session presented by
Tim Bartik
(Upjohn Institute) on needed additions to Regional
Science research for policy was similarly very
enlightening.
Doug Woodward (South Carolina) gave an
interesting Presidential Address on Clusters and
Economic Development Initiatives in the South.
We welcomed
Dan Rickman (OK
State, co-editor, Growth and Change)
as incoming president, and he did a wonderful job as
program chair.
View pictures
here on Google+, most are courtesy of
Alexandra Tsvetkova (thanks!).
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Christa Jensen
at WVU was named the winner of the the 2012
Barry M.
Moriarty Student Paper Competition Award,
presented at our March, 2012 meetings in Charlotte.
Her winning paper was entitled “Examining
Sub-national Hazardous Waste Flows in the United
Kingdom: A Spatial Interaction Approach".
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Mark Burkey
of North Carolina A&T State University was named
co-editor of The Review of Regional Studies,
serving with Mike Lahr of Rutgers. The
Review will soon become an open access journal,
and the editors are working on getting the journal
indexed in
RePEc.
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James C. Hite on August 8, 2011. Dr. Hite was
the 14th President of the SRSA, Alumni Distinguished
Professor Emeritus of agricultural economics and
retired Senior Fellow of the Strom Thurmond
Institute.
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Carlianne Patrick
of the Department of Agricultural,
Environmental, and Development Economics at The Ohio
State University
won the 2011 Barry M.
Moriarty Student Paper Competition Award,
presented at our March, 2011 meetings. She
presented her paper, “The Economic
Development Incentives Game: An Imperfect
Information, Heterogeneous Communities Approach”.
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Andrew Isserman, noted Regional Scientist, passed away Thursday, November 4, 2010.
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Gianmarco Ottaviano, is welcomed to The Journal of Regional Science editorial team.
- Juan Sebastian Leguizamon, West Virginia University was the recipient of the 2010 Barry M. Moriarty Student Paper Competition Award.
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Brian J. Cushing, Associate Professor, Economics, West Virginia University, was elected a SRSA Fellow at the 49th annual meeting.
- The Review of Regional Studies, Volume 38(3) has been published online. Subscribers have password access in which their email address serves as their Username and their last name is their Password. If your library subscribes to the journal, you have IP access and the Username and Password are unnecessary. For additional information contact Michael Lahr, lahr@rutgers.edu. The website is now located at: www.policy.rutgers.edu/cupr/rrs/
- Brian Piper, University of Oklahoma was the recipient of the 2009 Barry M. Moriarty Student Paper Competition Award.
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Peter V. Schaeffer was awarded the "Miernyk Award" for career scholarly achievement, October 31, 2008.
- David Barkley, Clemson University and Henry (Chip) Herzog, emeritus, University of Kentucky, were elected SRSA Fellows at the annual 47th meetings. Click here for powerpoint presentation of Barkley fellows address.
- Olivier Parent, Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati, was chosen as the 2008 "Miernyk Research Excellence Medal" winner. Click here for pics of the event.
- Click here for pics of the 47th annual meeting in Washington, DC.
- Another resource for the SRSA community is the Regional Research Forum which enables you to post to these topics:
General Discussion, Theory, Methods, Curriculum, Consulting, RSAI Discussion, Conference News, Job Postings
- Click here for Regional Science Links such as the RSAI, WRSA, NARSC, MCRSA, AUBER, RRI, among others.
- The SRSA Newsletter is published three times each year: January, May, and September. To submit news, please email John Sporing, editor: john_sporing@ao.uscourts.gov. Click here for the most recent newsletter.
- Click here for the 2006 William H. Miernyk Research Excellence Award winner. Go here for the 10 minute video of Professor Miernyk's remarks and pics of the special session honoring Miernyk in Arlington, VA. You may click here for pics of the first recipient of the medal.
- Click here for a complete history of SRSA conference venues.
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