ACES Seminars

Monday, September 29, 2025

• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • 428 Mumford Hall

  Speaker Fengqi Liu - Greener on the Track, Dirtier by the Plant: The Air Pollution Costs of High-Speed Rail

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 1, 2025

• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • 428 Mumford Hall

  Speaker Aaron Staples - Policy Interventions and Their Economic Effects in Alcohol Markets

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 - 12:50 pm
  • W109 - Turner Hall

  TBD

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 3, 2025

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  • 11:00 - 11:50 am
  • Bevier Hall- Room 180

  FSHN Graduate Seminar- Dr. Boris Nemzer

  FSHN Graduate Seminar Presenter: Boris Nemzer, PhD Sr. Vice President of R&D Director of Research and Analytical Center VDF FutureCeuticals Title: FutureCeuticals ingredients and functional blends, their formulation, production and efficacy on human health

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • 428 Mumford Hall

  Speaker Nicholas Magnan - Stifled by Stigma? Experimental Effects of Updating Husbands’ Beliefs on Participation in Household Work

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  • 3:00 pm
  • W-109 Turner Hall

  NRES SEMINAR | Iowa Watershed Approach: A vision for a more resilient Iowa

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, October 6, 2025

• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • 428 Mumford Hall

  Speaker Yizun Yan - Maple Syrup Producers’ Willingness to Diversify Forest for Increased Resilience

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 8, 2025

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  • 12:00 - 12:50 pm
  • W109 - Turner Hall

  "Integrating Cover Crops and Targeted Herbicide Applications for Sustainable Weed Management" with Dr. Rodrigo Werle

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • 428 Mumford Hall

  Speaker Christian Valencia - How do Farmers Respond to Increasing Costs to Hire Migrant Workers?

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 1:30 pm
  • 428 Mumford Hall

  Speakers Juliette Caucheteux and Rebecca Mari - Should I Stay or Should I Go? The Effects of Floods on Firms’ Location Choices

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 9, 2025

• • 12:30 - 1:30 pm
  • 428 Mumford Hall

  Speaker Madison Levine - Who Adopts What? Contract Design, Empowerment, and Input Use in Kenya

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 10, 2025

• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • 428 Mumford Hall

  Speaker Geoff Barrows - Quantifying Climate Damages When Regions Trade: A Structural Gravity Approach

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  • 3:00 pm
  • W-109 Turner Hall

  NRES SEMINAR | Title TBD - Dr. Meagan Schipanski

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, October 13, 2025

• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • 428 Mumford Hall

  Speaker Cheng Bi - Can Biopesticides and Natural Enemies Reduce Chemical Pesticide Use Without Harming Farmers’ Profits? A Bioeconomic Analysis

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

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  • 12:00 - 12:50 pm
  • W109 - Turner Hall

  "Underground connections: microbial interactions in US farming systems" with Dr. M. Soledad Benitez Ponce

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 16, 2025

• • 12:30 - 1:30 pm
  • 428 Mumford Hall

  Speaker Jingru Jia - The Economic Behavior of AI Agents: Rationality and Reasoning in Large Language Models

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 17, 2025

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  • 3:00 pm
  • W-109 Turner Hall

  NRES SEMINAR | The Spark Bird Project: Using personality science to study birding

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, October 20, 2025

• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • 428 Mumford Hall

  Speaker Zihao Yi - High Temperature Alerts and Criminal Activities: The Role of Information Disclosure

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

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  • 12:00 - 12:50 pm
  • W109 - Turner Hall

  "Agricultural Stress and Mental Health: Research and Resources to Protect Producers and Communities" with Dr. Josie Rudolphi

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 24, 2025

• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • 428 Mumford Hall

  Speaker Bruce McCarl -The challenge of agricultural adaptation to climate change: What types of adaptations have we seen?

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  • 3:00 pm
  • W-109 Turner Hall

  NRES SEMINAR | Wings in the wild: How bats & birds navigate natural landscapes

  • Seminar/Symposium

Monday, October 27, 2025

• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • 428 Mumford Hall

  Speaker Keliang Xiao - Trade Policy and the Emissions Content of Agricultural Trade

  • Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

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  • 12:00 - 12:50 pm
  • W109 - Turner Hall

  "Emerging threats to food security: Lessons learned from tar spot of corn and the critical importance of having a strong connection between research and Extension." with Dr. Darcy Telenko

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • 428 Mumford Hall

  Speakers Helia Costa and John Hooley - The macroeconomic implications of extreme weather events

  • Seminar/Symposium

Thursday, October 30, 2025

• • 12:30 - 1:30 pm
  • 428 Mumford Hall

  Speaker Shahadat Hossain - Animal-sourced Food Price, Shadow Wages, and Male and Female Labor Allocation in Bangladesh

  • Seminar/Symposium

Friday, October 31, 2025

• • 12:00 - 1:00 pm
  • 428 Mumford Hall

  Speaker Jane Kolodinsky - Community Perspectives on Dairy Industry Impacts and Waste Management Technologies

  • Seminar/Symposium
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  • 3:00 pm
  • W-109 Turner Hall

  NRES SEMINAR | Understanding communication landscapes & societal dimensions of environmental risks & technologies

  • Seminar/Symposium