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George Fenton is majoring in economics with a minor in mathematics and will graduate through the Honors College. He competed with distinction as a member of the Talkin’ Broncos debate team during his freshman and sophomore years.  He spent the summer of 2010 studying at Georgetown University and interning at the U.S. Treasury Department. The summer of 2011 was spent studying at the London School of Economics. He is currently an intern for Brad Wiskirchen, CEO of the Boise technology firm Keynetics and director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Salt Lake City. George will be working for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors as a Research Assistant after graduation.

George Fenton is majoring in economics with a minor in mathematics and will graduate through the Honors College. He competed with distinction as a member of the Talkin’ Broncos debate team during his freshman and sophomore years.  He spent the summer of 2010 studying at Georgetown University and interning at the U.S. Treasury Department. The summer of 2011 was spent studying at the London School of Economics. He is currently an intern for Brad Wiskirchen, CEO of the Boise technology firm Keynetics and director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Salt Lake City. George will be working for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors as a Research Assistant after graduation.

Honored Faculty: Dr. Kelly Cobourn, assistant professor, Department of Economics

Eric Schuler is a double major in business economics and accountancy. Eric co-founded the Delta Upsilon social fraternity and partnered with the Honors College to establish the Friday Forum, a weekly student-led discussion series that addresses topics ranging from food security to the Arab Spring. He is also a committed environmental advocate and has been involved with the Sustainability Club and worked to raise awareness about the benefits of a plant-based diet through cooking demonstrations and documentary screenings. During his senior year he served as vice president of the student body and helped create a new grant-based funding model for student organizations that will enable them to spend more time planning events and less time fundraising. Eric plans to attend law school with an emphasis in environmental law after graduation.

Honored Faculty: Allen Dalton, adjunct professor, Department of Economics

Elbakidze, L., Shen, X. Z., Taylor, G., & Mooney, S. (2012). Spatiotemporal analysis of prior appropriations water calls. Water Resources Research, 48, (1).

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Cobourn also gave an invited oral presentation at the American Geophysical Union meetings in San Francisco on Dec. 7, 2011. The presentation, titled “Ecological vs. Economic Sustainability: An Integrated Analysis of Thresholds in Semi-Arid Western Rangelands,” was included as part of the session “Identifying and Quantifying Change in Ecological Systems.”

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Mooney will remain a Boise State professor during the appointment. Her placement within the EPSCoR office will allow her to share her expertise on a wide variety of issues from a social science perspective. It also will supply Boise State with additional insight about NSF-funded projects and initiatives.

“It is no surprise that the NSF wants to bring Dr. Mooney’s expertise to bear. Her selection for this role is a reflection and acknowledgment of her body of work,” said Mark Rudin, vice president for research at Boise State. “Every day, Boise State is growing a dynamic research culture that is being rewarded and recognized for its contributions and expertise. Through connections like these, Boise State’s network of peers and benefactors across the nation is growing and helping to drive our increasing success.”

Mooney has served as Boise State’s lead on a $15 million grant from the National Science Foundation that considers climate and water interactions within Idaho. She also holds a governor’s appointment to the Idaho Governor’s Carbon Sequestration Advisory Committee and the Governor’s Energy Assessment Committee.

She joined the Department of Economics within the College of Business and Economics at Boise State in 2006. Her work examines the design of economic incentives, policies and contracts to support the emerging trade in greenhouse gas credits. She also has worked on a broad range of other topics including drought management, environmental impacts of releasing new technologies, incentives for endangered species protection, mitigation of climate change, and erosion mitigation and water quality protection in sub-Saharan Africa. More recently she has undertaken a new line of research examining the incentives and impediments for economists to engage in mixed discipline research, of significant interest to the NSF.

Mooney holds a Ph.D. in agricultural and resource economics from Oregon State University, a master’s degree in agricultural economics and farm management from the University of Manitoba and a bachelor’s degree in agricultural economics from the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth.

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