Caswell awarded Fulbright grant to Italy
Professor Julie Caswell, who chairs the Resource Economics Department, has been awarded a Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Tuscia in Viterbo, Italy from April to June 2009.
During her visit, Caswell will teach two complementary graduate courses on the relationship between food quality, food safety standards and economics, initiate research with faculty members, and provide mentoring to graduate students. “I am excited about teaching two intensive graduate courses because of the opportunity it offers me to collaborate with students, who are our future researchers,” says Caswell.
According to Caswell, European Union countries are taking a leading role in designing quality assurance systems for food, focusing on familiar attributes such as safety, nutrition, taste and authenticity, as well as new attributes such as organic production and fair trade. Italy is a particular leader in this area, and the University of Tuscia in Viterbo is a center of excellence in teaching and research on the economics of food quality assurance.
Fulbright Distinguished Lectureships are awarded by the U.S. State Department Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs through the Council for International Exchange of Scholars in Washington, D.C.
Caswell joined the Department of Resource Economics in 1984, and has served as chair since 2006. Her research focuses on understanding the operation of domestic and international food systems, analyzing how well they work, and evaluating how government policy affects their operation and performance — in particular the economics of food quality, safety and nutrition.
April 29, 2008.
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