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Green Revolution Soccer Club Reaches Campus Championship

The Taylor-Hibbard Club's men's soccer team,

Green Revolution, achieved historic victory in the

2007 season, winning 8 straight games before

losing 0-1 in the final championship game. 

Read exciting game re-caps and see more photos

at the THC website: 

http://www.aae.wisc.edu/thc/ (click on "News").

UW Honors AAE Alumna with Honorary Degree

Florence Chenoweth (Agricultural Economics Master's, 1970, Land Resources Ph.D., 1980) was awarded an honorary degree and distinguished alumni award in May.  After earning her Master's degree here, Chenoweth returned to her native Liberia to become its first female minister of agriculture at the age of 32. A decade later she fled the country with her children, walking across it to Sierra Leone, in the wake of a violent coup. The ensuing unrest plunged Liberia into civil war and anarchy and claimed the lives of many prominent citizens there. Chenoweth and her children barely escaped.

After returning to UW-Madison to complete her doctorate in 1986, she worked on a UW-Madison agricultural policy project in Zambia. Her work there brought liberalization of Zambia's food markets.  In 1995, Chenoweth joined the FAO as its representative in Gambia, where she led efforts to revitalize assistance programs and conduct a review of the agricultural and natural resources that has helped guide Gambia's development. 

At the end of apartheid, she opened the FAO's first office in South Africa, which coordinated flood relief efforts for 2.5 million displaced people in 2000.  Her subsequent work led to her appointment as FAO representative to the U.N. and executive director of the FAO Liaison Office in New York.  In that capacity she continues to carry the Wisconsin Idea around the world.

Fritz Mueller Fellowship Campaign Reaches Its Goal

Thanks to all the alumni and other contributors who helped us meet our goal of raising $250,000 for the Mueller Fellowship.  Fritz and his colleagues are gratified by the generous donations which will enable us to award the first fellowship in the coming admissions cycle. The earnings will be matched by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation to provide a fellowship with a full stipend and tuition waiver.  Preference in awarding the fellowship will be given to graduate students studying the organization and competitive performance of the U.S. food system.

The first fellowship was awarded in fall 2007 to Xiaowei Cai, a dissertator writing on the dynamics of international cartels.  Congratulations, Xiaowei! 

Professor Willard F. "Fritz" Mueller has had a career distinguished by its influence on countless students, contributions to the field of industrial economics, and influence on antitrust policy. Between 1961 and 1985, Fritz was among the most influential economists in the U.S. in the broad policy area of antitrust and market regulation. Among other things, in the 1960s he was primarily responsible for creating the Federal Trade Commission's Pre-Merger Notification Program; he subsequently assisted Congress in developing the Hart-Scott-Rodino Pre-Merger Notification Act of 1973, the most important antitrust legislation since 1950. Because of Fritz's leadership, the UW Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics has been a national leader in research on the organization and competitive performance of the U.S. food system, and the role of antitrust policy, since the early 1970s.

We encourage prospective graduate students interested in studying the U.S. food system to apply for the fellowship. Simply state your interest in your application essay.  More information appears in the section on graduate admissions.

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