April 16, 2008
Student summit to address space, health and population economics
Purdue will be host to the Midwest Student Summit on Space, Health and Population Economics on April 18 and 19.
Organized by graduate students of the Space, Health and Population Economics (SHaPE) Group in the Department of Agricultural Economics, the summit will bring together young scholars from Michigan State University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, The Ohio State University, and Purdue University.
The conference presentations address a variety of topics of growing importance to community planning and regional development, including manufacturing investment, food security, obesity, and immigration.
The public is invited to attend the presentations.
For more information visit the conference website at www.agecon.purdue.edu/academic/agec691t/summit.htm.