2020
Monday, January 27th, 2020
SPEAKER: Chris Ivey, Documentary Filmmaker
TOPIC: Finding Beauty in the Raw - co-sponsored with the Department of Scoiology and Anthropology
Tuesday, April 9th, 2019
SPEAKER: Dr. Sergio Rey, Professor of Public Policy and Director, University of California, Riverside
TOPIC: PySAL 2.0: Lessons from the first 10 years
Thursday, March 28, 2019
SPEAKER: Dr. David B. Audretsch, Distinguished Professor, Ameritech Chair of Economic Development, Indiana University-Bloomington
TOPIC: Entrepreneurship and Regional Policy: The Role of Culture
Thursday, March 7, 2019
SPEAKER: Dr. Eveline van Leeuwen, Professor in Spatial Economics and Chair of Urban Economics, Wageningen University, Netherlands
TOPIC: Urban-Rural Interactions: more important than ever
Tuesday, January 22, 2019
SPEAKER: Dr. Michael Goodchild, Research Professor School of Geographical Sciences, Arizona University
TOPIC: Geography and GIScience: An Evolving Relationship
2018
Tuesday, April 17, 2018
SPEAKER: Dr. Jadwiga R. Ziolkowska, Assistant
Professor, Environmental Economist, Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability
University of Oklahoma (Co-sponsored with the Institute of Water Security and
Science)
TOPIC: Sustainability of Biofuels in an Uncertain Decision Environment
Thursday, January 25, 2018
SPEAKER: Dr. Fernando Salgueiro Perobelli,
Professor of Economics and Researcher at the Territorial and Sectorial Analysis
Laboratory (LATES/UFJF)
Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil
TOPIC: Demographic Changes in Brazil and its Impact on Greenhouse Gas Emissions: An Input-Output Analysis
Wednesday, January 17, 2018
SPEAKER: Dr. Heather Stephens, Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics, West Virginia University
TOPIC: Economic Distress and Labor Market Participation
2016
Thursday, November 17, 2016
SPEAKER: Dr. Patricio Aroca, Professor and Director of the Center for Economics and Policy Universidad Adolfo Ibanez Videl Mar, Chile and Associate Researcher of the Center for Conflict and Cohesion Studies of the Chilean National Fund for Science (CONICYT)
TOPIC: The Smartness Migration Impacts on Smart Cities
Tuesday, October 18, 2016
SPEAKER: Dr. Max Schweizer, Foreign & Economic Affairs; Advisory – Lectures – Research
TOPIC: Brexit – the End of “Regionalism” in Europe? Observations of a Former Swiss Diplomat
Tuesday, April 19, 2016
SPEAKER: Dr. John Carruthers, Director, Sustainable Urban Planning Program, College of Professional Studies, George Washington University
TOPIC: A Revealed Preference Exploration of Quality of Life in Seoul, Korea: A Hedonic Approach
Thursday, March 10, 2016
SPEAKER: Dr. Luc Anselin, Regents’ Professor and Walter Isard Chair, Arizona State University
TOPIC: Spatial Data Science in a CyberGIS Era
Tuesday, March 8, 2016
SPEAKER: Dr. Emily Talen, Professor, School of Geographical Science and Urban Planning and School of Sustainability, Arizona State University
TOPIC: Unpacking New Urbanism: The Status of Walkable Diversity
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
SPEAKER: Dr. Scott Loveridge, Director of the North Central Regional Center for Rural Development, Michigan State University
TOPIC: Does Fracking Pay? County-level Economic Effects of Natural Gas Extraction & Policy Options
Monday, February 29, 2016
SPEAKER: Dr. Jacob L. Vigdor, Daniel J. Evans Professor of Public Policy and Governance, University of Washington
TOPIC: A Eulogy For No Child Left Behind
Thursday, February 18, 2016
SPEAKER: Dr. Elizabeth A. Mack, Geography, Quantitative Social Research, Macroeconomics, International Economics, Michigan State University
TOPIC: The Broadband-Entrepreneurship Nexus (BEN)
Thursday, February 4, 2016
SPEAKER: Dr. Stuart McIntyre, Lecturer, Economics and course co-Director of the MSc in Global Energy Management, The University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland
Thursday, November 6, 2014
SPEAKER: Dr. Kenneth C. Martis, Professor of Geography, West Virginia University
TOPIC: Regions, Parties and Voting: Developing a Geographic Understanding of American Political History
Friday, April 4, 2014
SPEAKER: Dr. Stephen Ross
TOPIC: The Housing and Educational Consequences of the School Choice Provisions of NCLB: Evidence from Charlotte NC (Co-sponsored with the College of Business & Economics)
2013
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
SPEAKER: Dr. Andrei Belyi
TOPIC: Gazprom’s Strategies in the Aftermath of the Shale Gas (Co-sponsored with The Center for Energy and Sustainable Development, WVU College of Law, and WVU Atlantic Program, Department of History)
Thursday, October 24, 2013
SPEAKER: Dr. Trevor Harris, Eberly Distinguished Professor of Geography, WVU
TOPIC: GIS, Deep Mapping, and the Spatial Turn
Friday, September 27, 2013
SPEAKER: Dr. Daniel McMillen, University of Illinois
TOPIC: Assessments and Property Tax Variability: A Quantile Approach (co-sponsored with the College of Business & Economics)
Friday, September 6, 2013
SPEAKER: Dr. Olivier Parent, University of Cincinnati
TOPIC: Public School Consolidation: A Partial Observability Spatial Bivariate Probit Approach (co-sponsored with the College of Business & Economics)
Monday, June 24, 2013
SPEAKER: Dr. Stuart G. McIntyre, Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Department of Economics & Fraser of Allander Institute, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
TOPIC: Personal Indebtedness, Community Characteristics and Theft Crime
Friday, June 14, 2013
SPEAKER: Dr. Stuart G. McIntyre, Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Department of Economics & Fraser of Allander Institute, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
TOPIC: Feed in Tariffs and the Uptake of Household Renewable Energy Device in England & Wales
Thursday, March 14, 2013
SPEAKER: Dr. Yohannes G. Hailu, Economic Affairs Officer/Energy Policy UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) Sub-Regional Office for Eastern Africa (SRO-EA), Kigali, Rwanda
TOPIC: Energy Access and Security Challenges and Implications to Economic Transformation in Eastern Africa
Thursday, March 21, 2013
SPEAKER: Dr. Jaewon Lim, Assistant Professor, School of Environmental and Public Affairs, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
TOPIC: Attracting Highly Educated Migrants for Regional Economic Growth – Is this a Viable Solution to All?
2012
November 29, 2012
SPEAKER: Dr. Carlos Roberto Azzoni, Professor of Economics University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
TOPIC: Concentration and Inequality Across Brazilian Regions
September 7, 2012
SPEAKER: Dr. Nate Baum-Snow, Associate Professor of Economics, Brown University
TOPIC: Urban Transport Expansions, Employment Decentralization, and the Spatial Scope of Agglomeration Economies
April 26, 2012
SPEAKER: Dr. Sandy Dall’erba, Associate Professor of Geography and Development, Department of Economics (Affiliated), Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Statistics (Affiliated) and Institute of the Environment (Affiliated), University of Arizona
TOPIC: Regional Economic Development, Public Expenditures and Spillover Effects: Guidance for ARRA and Future Regional Policies
March 9, 2012
SPEAKER: Dr. Badi H. Baltagi, Distinguished Professor of Economics, Syracuse University Senior Research Fellow, Center for Policy Research
TOPIC: Small Sample Properties and Pretest Estimation of a Spatial Hausman-Taylor Model
February 23, 2012
SPEAKER: Dr. Ingmar Prucha Professor, Department of Economics, University of Maryland Honorary Professor, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
TOPIC: On Two-step Estimation of a spatial autoregressive Model with Autoregressive Distrubances and Endogenous Regressors and Small Sample Properties of the I2(q) TestStatistic for Spatial Dependence
February 16, 2012
SPEAKER: Dr. Peter Nijkamp, Professor, Regional Economics, Economic Geography President, Governing Board Netherlands Research Council, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
TOPIC: Migration and Impact Assessment: New Horizons
January 9, 2012
SPEAKER: Dr. Jerry Jackson, Leader and Research Director
TOPIC: Smart Grid Developments and Utility/Fendor R&D Interests
2011
December 1, 2011
SPEAKER: Dr. Raymond Florax, Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
TOPIC: Obesity and Fast Food in Urban Markets: A New Approach Using Geo-referenced Micro Data
October 20, 2011
SPEAKER: Dr. Bruce Newbold, Director, McMaster Institute of Environment and Health and Professor of Geography, McMaster University, Canada
TOPIC: Income Effects of Migration to a Large Metropolitan Area: Is Toronto an Escalator or Elevator?
September 29, 2011
SPEAKER: Dr. Attila Varga, Professor and Chair, Department of Economics and Regional Studies, Business and Economics, University of Pecs, Hungary
TOPIC: From the Geography of Innovation to Development Policy Impact Analysis.
April 28, 2011
SPEAKER: Dr. Aura Reggiani, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Bologna, Italy
TOPIC: Accessibility and Resilience in Complex Networks (Background Papers 1 and 2)
April 21, 2011
SPEAKER: Dr. Alessandra Faggian, Reader in Economic Geography, University of Southampton
TOPIC: Cultural Avoidance and Internal Migration in the USA: Do the Source Countries Matter?
March 31, 2011
SPEAKER: Dr. Elena Irwin, Professor, Agricultural, Environmental & Development Economics, Ohio State University
TOPIC: Explaining the Persistence of Scattered Urban Land Development: An Agent-Based Model of Exurban Land Markets
February 17, 2011
SPEAKER: Dr. Eveline S. van Leeuwen, Researcher, Afdelingen & Instituten
TOPIC: Microsimulation as a Tool in Developing Interregional Input-output Tables; A Case Study of the Cairngorms National Park in Scotland.
2010
November 8, 2010
SPEAKER: Dr. Patricio Aroca, Professor of Economics, Catholic University of the North, Chile
TOPIC: Regional Cycle Synchronization in Chile
October 22, 2010
SPEAKER: Dr. Edward Coulson, Professor of Economics, The Pennsylvania State University
TOPIC: Measuring the External Benefits of Homeownership
April 29, 2010
SPEAKER: Dr. Edmund J. Zolnik, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science, George Mason University
TOPIC: Estimates of Statewide and Nationwide Carbon Dioxide Emission Reductions and their Costs from Cash for Clunkers
April 22, 2010
SPEAKER: Dr. Richard E. Klosterman, Professor Emeritus, Department of Geography and Planning, University of Akron and President and CEO of What if?, Inc.
TOPIC: New Tools for a New Planning
April 8, 2010
SPEAKER: Nancy Lozano-Gracia, Economist, Finance, Economics and Urban Department, Sustainable Development Network, World Bank
TOPIC: The Price is Right: Improving Estimates of Cadastral Values in Bogota, Colombia through Submarket Definition
March 18, 2010
SPEAKER: Dr. Yu Xiao, Assistant Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University
TOPIC: Economic Impacts of Hurricanes: Labor Market Adjustment after the Unexpected
March 16, 2010
SPEAKER: Haifeng Qian, Ph.D. Candidate, School of Public Policy, George Mason University
TOPIC: Modeling Knowledge-Based Regional Systems of Entrepreneurship
March 11, 2010
SPEAKER: Jae Hong Kim, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Urban & Regional Planning, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
TOPIC: Integrating Regional & Sub-Regional Socio-Economic Forecasting and Analysis: A Spatial REIM (Regional Econometric Input-Output Model)
2009
October 15, 2009
SPEAKER: Dr. Gianfranco Piras, Research Assistant Professor, REAL, University of Illinois atUrbana-Champaign
TOPIC: The Journey to Safety: Conflict-Driven Migration Flows in Colombia
October 8, 2009
LECTURER: Dr. Harvey J. Miller, Professor and Chair, Department of Geography, University of Utah
WORKSHOP: People in Geographical Information Science (Sponsored by WVU’s Regional Research Institute, Departments of Economics & Geography, and the Division of Resource Management)
August 10-13, 2009
Sponsored by WVU’s Regional Research Institute, Departments of Economics & Geography, and the Division of Resource Management
LECTURER: Karen Turner, Economics, University of Strathclyde, UK
WORKSHOP: Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Modeling
May 11-14, 2009
Sponsored by WVU’s Regional Research Institute, Departments of Economics & Geography, and the Divison of Resource Management
LECTURER: James LeSage, Professor and Endowed Chair, Department of Finance and Economics, Texas State University at San Marcos
WORKSHOP: Introduction to Spatial Econometrics
March 12, 2009
SPEAKER: Dr. Donald J. Lacombe, Associate Professor of Economics, Ohio University
TOPIC: The Dual Spatial Autoregressive Probit Model with an Application to the 2001 Congressional Farm Bill
February 19, 2009
SPEAKER: Dr. Henk Folmer, Professor of Economics, Wageningen University and Professor of Methodology, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
TOPIC: How to Get Rid of W: A Latent Variables Approach to Modeling Spatially Lagged Variables
2008
October 30, 2008
SPEAKER: Dr. Kenneth C. Martis, Professor of Geography, West Virginia University
TOPIC: Regions, Parties and Voting: The Historical Geography of United States Presidential
Elections: 1788-2008
March 13, 2008
SPEAKER: Dr. Serge Rey, Professor of Geography, San Diego State University
TOPIC: Exploratory Space-Time Analysis with STAR
February 7, 2008
SPEAKER: Dr. Roger Stough, Associate Dean for Research & Development, and External Relations, Professor & Director, ITS Center and NOVA Endowed Chair, George Mason University
TOPIC: Leadership and Regional Economic Development
2007
November 29, 2007
SPEAKER: Dr. Geoffrey J. D. Hewings, Professor of Geography, Economics, and Urban & Regional Planning; Director of the Regional Economics Applications Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
TOPIC: Demographic Challenges to Regional Development.
November 15, 2007
SPEAKER: Dr. William Bowen, Professor of Urban Studies, Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs, Cleveland State University
TOPIC: Industrial Agglomeration and the Regional Scientific Explanation of Perceived Environnmental Injustice
October 11, 2007
SPEAKER: Dr. Edward Feser, Associate Professor & Interim Head of Urban & Regional Planning, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
TOPIC: Knowledge-Intensive Activity in U.S. Metro Areas: An Occupation-Based Analysis of 1990-2000 Trends
April 12, 2007
SPEAKER: Dr. Mario J. Miranda, Andersons Professor of Agricultural Finance & Risk Management, The Ohio State University
TOPIC: Numerical Solution of Stochastic Dynamic Economic Models: An Introduction
March 8, 2007
SPEAKER: Dr. Peter Batey, Lever, Professor of Town and Regional Planning, University of Liverpool
TOPIC: The Spatial Targeting of Urban Policy Initiatives: A Geodemographic Assessment Tool
2006
October 26, 2006
SPEAKER: Dan Rickman, Professor and Chair of Regional Economic Analysis, William S. Spears School of Business, Oklahoma State University
TOPIC: Employment Growth in the American Urban Hierarchy: Long Live Distance
October 19, 2006
SPEAKER: Karen R. Polenske, Professor of Regional Political Economy and Planning, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
TOPIC: Coke and Steel: The Strategic Significance of their Regional Development in China in the Global Supply Chain
April 13, 2006
SPEAKER: Dr. Darla Munroe, Assistant Professor of Geography, Ohio State University
TOPIC: Multiscale Models of Exurban Land Conversion in Ohio
March 28, 2006
SPEAKER: Olivier Parent, Research Assistant, Economics, University of Saint-Etienne
TOPIC: Using the Variance Structure of the Conditional Autoregressive Spatial Specification to Model Knowledge Spillovers’
March 23, 2006
SPEAKER: John Parr, Professor of Regional and Urban Studies, University of Glasgow
TOPIC: Economic Definitions of the City
March 2, 2006
SPEAKER: John M. Quigley, I. Donald Terner Distinguished Professor and Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
TOPIC: Urbanization, Productivity, and Innovation: Evidence from Investment in Higher
Education
February 2, 2006
SPEAKER: John O’Loughlin, Professor of Geography, University of Colorado at Boulder
TOPIC: The Outcomes of Civil Wars: Ethnic Relations, Economic Collapse and Uncertain
Political Futures in Bosnia and the North Caucasus of Russia
2005
December 8, 2005
SPEAKER: Art Getis, Emeritus Professor of Geography, San Diego State University
TOPIC: Finding ‘Appropriate’ Spatial Weights Matrices and Spatial Clusters Using AMOEBA to Create A Spatial Weights Matrix and Identify Spatial Clusters, and a Comparison to Other Clustering Algorithms
December 1, 2005
SPEAKER: Kingsley Haynes, Dean, School of Public Policy, George Mason University
TOPIC: Substitution and Complementarity Effects between Information Technology and Transportation: A Regional Perspective
October 28, 2005
SPEAKER: Ge Lin, Assistant Professor of Geography, West Virginia University
TOPIC: Climate Amenity, Physical Activity and Body Mass Index, a Geographic Analysis based on the 2003 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Surveys in the U.S.
September 9, 2005
SPEAKER: Phil Graves, Professor of Economics, University of Colorado, Boulder
TOPIC: Some Implications of a Flaw in the Valuation of Public Good
June 23, 2005
SPEAKER: Lei Ding, School of Public Policy, George Mason University
TOPIC: The Role of Telecommunications Infrastructure in Regional Economic Growth in China
May 19, 2005
SPEAKER: Julie Hwang, Geography, SUNY, Buffalo
TOPIC: The Effects of Housing Market Segmentation on Commuting: A Geographical Analysis
May 17, 2005
SPEAKER: Up Lim, Research Associate, Center for Urban Studies, Wayne State University
TOPIC: Knowledge Externalities, Spatial Dependence and Innovative Activity in U.S.Metropolitan Areas
January 28, 2005
SPEAKER: John Pickles, Earl N. Phillips Distinguished Chair of International Studies and Professor of Geography, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
TOPIC: On the Social History and Geography of Mapping
January 19, 2005
SPEAKER: Scott Loveridge, Professor, Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University
TOPIC: Who Takes the Long View in Developing a Region
2004
November 5, 2004
SPEAKER: Bjarne Madsen, Director of Research, Institute of Local Government Studies, AKF, Copenhagen, Denmark
TOPIC: Theoretical and Operational Issues in Sub-regional Economic Modelling, Illustrated through the Development and Application of the LINE Model
November 8, 2004
SPEAKER: Graham Clarke, Professor, Geography, University of Leeds, UK
TOPIC: Applied Microsimulation in Regional Science
October 8, 2004
Cosponsored with the Department of Geology and Geography
SPEAKER: Dawn Parker, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Science and Policy, Center for Social Complexity, George Mason University
TOPIC: Edge-Effect Externalities and the Evolution of Complex Land-Use Patterns at the Urban-Rural Fringe
October 1, 2004
SPEAKER: Janet E. Kohlhase, Associate Professor, Economics, University of Houston
TOPIC: Firm Location in a Polycentric City: The Effects of Public Policy and Firm Characteristics on Location Decisions
April 22-23, 2004
SPEAKER: Dick Conway, Principal of Dick Conway and Associates, a Seattle firm engaged in economic research and consulting
TOPIC: The Practice of Regional Economics: Modeling and Applications
2003
October 31, 2003
SPEAKER: Jerome E. Dobson, Professor of Geography and Research Professor, Kansas Applied Remote Sensing Program, University of Kansas
TOPIC: GIS, Warfare and Society
September 19, 2003
SPEAKER: Eric Sheppard, Professor of Geography, University of Minnesota
TOPIC: GIS and Critical Geography
April 24, 2003
SPEAKER: Duane Marble, Professor Emeritus of Geography, The Ohio State University
TOPIC: Problems of Movement in Space and Time: Refining Our Views of Impedance at the Level of the Individual. Abstract on Duane Marble’s Seminar
April 15, 2003
SPEAKER: Peter McGregor, Professor and Head of the Department of Economics, University of Strathclyde, UK
TOPIC: The Importance of the Regional/Local Dimension of Sustainable Development: An llustrative Computable General Equilibrium Analysis of the Jersey Economy
2002
February 6, 2002
SPEAKER: Alan T. Murray, Associate Professor of Geography, Ohio State University
TOPIC: Geographical Considerations in Forest Management Planning
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Scale and Unit Specification Influences in Harvest Scheduling with Maximum Area Restrictions appeared in Forest Science, 48,4:779-788, 2002.
March 1, 2002
SPEAKER: Jesse Richardson, Jr., Assistant Professor, Institute for Metropolitan Research, Virginia Tech
TOPIC: From Mandate to Smart Growth: The Evolution of Growth Management in the United States
March 7, 2002
SPEAKER: Anne K. Knowles, Assistant Professorial Lecturer, George Washington University; author of Calvinists Incorporated
TOPIC: Streets of Hell, Devil’s Pride: The World of the 19th Century Iron Workers
March 19, 2002
SPEAKER: Daniel R. Williams, U.S. Forest Service; and Steve Selin, Associate Professor, WVU Division of Forestry
TOPIC: The Fulbright Scholar Program: Cross Cultural Reflections from Norway and Finland
April 5, 2002
SPEAKER: James LeSage, Professor of Economics, University of Toledo
TOPIC: Missing Values in the Presence of Spatial Dependence
April 12, 2002
SPEAKER: W. L. (Vic) Adamowicz, Gilbert White Visiting Fellow, Resources for the Future, Washington, DC; Canada Research Chair and Professor, University of Alberta
TOPIC: The Evolution of Public Land Forest Management in Canada: Is it Sustainable?
October 18, 2002
SPEAKER: Mark S. Kieser, Senior Scientist, Kieser and Associates
TOPIC: Watershed-based trading in the Midwest
2001
June 18, 2001
SPEAKER: Fernanda Jose, the Assistant Director of the Center of Investigation and Documentation for Integral Development (CIDDI) in the Catholic University of Mozambique
TOPIC: GIS and Education in Sofala Province-Mozambique
May 30, 2001
SPEAKER: Abeda Dawood, the Deputy Director of the Centre for Environmental Studies in the Department of Zoology and Entomology, at the University of Pretoria, South Africa
TOPIC: Biodiversity Conservation Challenges in Post-Apartheid South Africa 2001
April 25, 2001
SPEAKER: Peter V. Schaeffer, Director, Division of Resource Management and Professor of Resource Economics, West Virginia University
TOPIC: Research in Migration
April 23, 2001
SPEAKER: Richard Healey, Professor of Geography, University of Portsmouth, UK
TOPIC: Business Decision-Making and Regional Dynamics: A Case Study of the 19th Century Pennsylvanian Anthracite Coal Industry
April 11, 2001
SPEAKER: Dr. Randall W. Jackson, Associate Professor of Geography, Ohio State University
TOPIC: A Model of Spatial Competition
March 9, 2001
SPEAKER: Shuming Bao, Senior Research Associate China Research Data Center, University of Michigan
TOPIC: Economic Geography and Regional Growth in China
2000
November 8, 2000
SPEAKER: Christopher Williams, Senior Lecturer in History, Cardiff University
TOPIC: Labour’s Century: The Politics of the South Wales Coalfield
November 3, 2000
SPEAKER: Kenneth Martis, Professor, Geography, West Virginia University
TOPIC: Regions, Districts and Parties: The 2000 Election in Historical Context
October 20, 2000
SPEAKER: Cindi Katz, Deputy Executive Officer, Department of Environmental Psychology, CUNY
TOPIC: The Hidden Geographies of Social Reproduction
October 6, 2000
SPEAKER: Randall Rosenberger, Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics, West Virginia University
TOPIC: Valuing West Virginia’s Assets: Reaping What Others Know
September 29, 2000
SPEAKER: Richard Couto, Professor, Jepson School of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond; Editor, Journal of Appalachian Studies, West Virginia University
TOPIC: Building Civil Society in Appalachia: Social Capital and Non-Profit Organizations
September 22, 2000
SPEAKER: Ge Lin, Assistant Professor of Geography, West Virginia University
TOPIC: Access to Health Care: Geographic Information Perspective
September 8, 2000
SPEAKER: David Freshwater, Professor of Agricultural Economics, University of Kentucky
TOPIC: Ready or Not? The Rural South and its Workforce
August 22, 2000
SPEAKER: Smile Dube, Associate Professor of Economics, California State University, Sacramento
TOPIC: Zimbabwe’s Economic Development Experience since 1980
April 28, 2000
SPEAKER: Grant Saff, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics and Geography, Hofstra University
TOPIC: Urban Planning in South Africa: Lessons from the Past and Challenges for the Future.
April 24, 2000
SPEAKER: Robert Hanham and Shawn Banasick, Professor and Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Geology and Geography, West Virginia University
WORKSHOP: Modeling Local Area Manufacturing Employment Change in Japan in a Period of Global Restructuring?
March17, 2000
SPEAKER: Henri Nsanjama, Vice President, Africa/Madagascar, World Wildlife Fund
TOPIC: Can Sustainable Development and Resource Utilization be Achieved in Southern Africa?
March 13, 2000
SPEAKER: Lazaro Luis Gonzalez and Esteban Morales Domínguez, Economists, University of Havana
TOPIC: Regional Economic Development in the Cuban Context
February 25, 2000
SPEAKER: Elena Irwin, Assistant Professor of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics, Ohio State University
TOPIC: Explaining the Evolution of “Sprawl” Land Use Patterns at the Urban-Rural Fringe
January 28, 2000
SPEAKER: Joseph R. Oppong, Associate Professor, Geography, University of North Texas
TOPIC: Structural Adjustment and the African AIDS Crisis
January 26, 2000
SPEAKER: Marty Dodson, Ph.D., Department of Economics, West Virginia University
WORKSHOP: Welfare Generosity and Location Choices Among New United States Immigrants
January 25, 2000
SPEAKER: Stephan J. Goetz, Director of the Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development and Professor of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Pennsylvania State University
TOPIC: Identifying Critical Rural Development Issues
January 14, 2000
SPEAKER: John M. Gowdy, Professor of Economics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
TOPIC: Weak versus Strong Sustainability: Beyond Economic Man
1999
November 18, 1999
SPEAKER: Timothy J. Bartik, Senior Economist, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
TOPIC: Jobs for the Poor: Labor Supply vs. Labor Demand Policies
October 19, 1999
SPEAKER: Alaric Maude, Senior Lecturer and Head of the School of Geography, Flinders University, Australia
TOPIC: What Helps a Regional Development Agency be Effective? Lessons from Australia
October 8, 1999
SPEAKER: Steve Wing, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
TOPIC: Environmental Injustice in North Carolina Swine Industries
October 1, 1999
SPEAKER: W. Graeme Donovan, Principal Economist, Eastern and Southern Africa, World Bank, Washington, DC
TOPIC: Rural Development in Africa: A World Bank Perspective
September 28, 1999
SPEAKER: Clifford M. Johnson, Senior Fellow, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Washington, DC
TOPIC: Public Job Creation: New Approaches in a New Era of Welfare Reform
September 10, 1999
SPEAKER: Paul Robbins, Assistant Professor, Geography, Ohio State University
TOPIC: Fixed Categories in a Portable Landscape: Exploring Contradictions in Land Cover Analysis in India
April 27, 1999
SPEAKER: Ed Zahniser, Writer and Editor, National Park Service
TOPIC: Educating for Wilderness and Wildness: Toward a Social Contract with the Land
March 12, 1999
SPEAKER: Robert Hanham and Shawn Banasick, Professor and Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Geology and Geography, West Virginia University
WORKSHOP: Economic Crisis, Spatial Clustering and the Uneven Development of Manufacturing in Japan, 1985-95
February 26, 1999
SPEAKER: Thomas F. Torries, Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics, West Virginia University
TOPIC: West Virginia Reserve Coal Valuation Model Applications
February 19, 1999
SPEAKER: Thomas W. Ilvento, Associate Professor of Food and Resource Economics, University of Delaware
TOPIC: Communication, Fairness, and Trust in Poultry Grower Contracts: The Growers’ Perspective
January 29, 1999
SPEAKER: Gregory Elmes, Professor of Geography, West Virginia University
WORKSHOP: Mapping Heart Disease Mortality in Appalachia: The Roles of Ethnic Status, Gender, Social Environment, and Access to Care
1998
November 20, 1998
SPEAKER: Vito Perrone, Director of Teacher Education, Harvard University
TOPIC: Policies that Support Good Rural Schools
October 16, 1998
SPEAKER: Kenneth E. Stone, Professor of Economics and Extension Economist, Iowa State University
TOPIC: The Future of Small Town Retail in a World of Giants
October 2, 1998
SPEAKER: J. Bradford Jensen, Executive Director, Carnegie Mellon Census Research Data Center
TOPIC: Exporting and Growth: Evidence from U.S. Manufacturing
September 18, 1998
SPEAKER: Jesse L. White Jr., Federal Co-Chairman of the Appalachian Regional Commission
TOPIC: Regional Development Policy in the U.S. in the New Century
April 24, 1998
SPEAKER: David Greenstreet, Research Associate, Bureau of Business and Economic Research, West Virginia University
TOPIC: The Use of the REMI Model for Regional Development Planners
February 27, 1998
SPEAKER: John B. Engberg, Associate Professor of Economics, Carnegie Mellon University
TOPIC: Enterprise Zones and Housing Markets
February 13, 1998
SPEAKER: Carl Milofsky, Professor of Sociology, Bucknell University
TOPIC: Building Social Capital: The Community Resource Exchange as a Virtual Organization
February 6, 1998
SPEAKER: Joseph D. Coffey, Vice President of Economics and Strategic Initiatives, Southern States Cooperative, Inc., Richmond, VA
TOPIC: Universities are Vital to Rural Vitality
January 23, 1998
SPEAKER: Linda M. Lobao, Professor of Agricultural Education, Ohio State University
TOPIC: Conceptualizations of Economic Change, Income Levels and Inequality: A National Analysis, 1970-1990
1997
October 31, 1997
SPEAKER: Harry H. Kelejian, Professor of Economics, University of Maryland, and Dennis Robinson, Institute for Water Resources, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, VA
TOPIC: Returns to Investment in Navigation Infrastructure
October 17, 1997
SPEAKER: Zoltan Acs, Chief Economic Advisor, Office of Advocacy, U.S. Small Business Administration, Washington, DC
TOPIC: Regional and Global Systems of Innovation
September 19, 1997
SPEAKER: Carla Dickstein, Senior Development Officer, Research and Policy Development, Coastal Enterprises, Inc., Maine
TOPIC: The Challenge of Sustainable Development in Practice: The Coastal Enterprises, Inc. Experience
September 12, 1997
SPEAKER: Esther Wangari, Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies, Towson University
TOPIC: The Effects of Kenyan Land Reform on Female-Headed Households
April 25, 1997
SPEAKER: Bill Bishop, Columnist and Associate Editor, Lexington Herald Leader
TOPIC: Reflections and Conclusions about Appalachian Development
April 11, 1997
SPEAKER: Sally Maggard and F. Carson Mencken, Associate Professor and Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, West Virginia University
WORKSHOP: The Informal Economy in West Virginia: Recent Evidence from the WestVirginia Social Indicator Survey
April 4, 1997
SPEAKER: Munroe Eagles, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, and Research Scientist, NCGIA, SUNY, Buffalo
TOPIC: The Political Ecology of Local Party Organization: The Case of Canada
March 21, 1997
SPEAKER: George Penick, President, Foundation for the Mid South
TOPIC: Harnessing Private Wealth for the Common Good: The Story of the Foundation for the Mid South
February 28, 1997
SPEAKER: Lionel J. (Bo) Beaulieu, Professor of Family, Youth, and Community Sciences, and Director of the Florida Inter-University Center for Child, Family, and Community Studies, University of Florida
TOPIC: Building Human Capital to Sustain Communities: The Ingredients of School Success
February 21, 1997
SPEAKER: David Rasmussen, Professor of Economics, and Director of the Policy Sciences Center, Florida State University
TOPIC: Crime and Regional Development Policy
January 24, 1997
SPEAKER: Cornelia B. Flora, Professor of Sociology, and Director of North Central Regional Center for Rural Development, Iowa State University
TOPIC: Cooperation in the New Economy: How Social Capital Creates Wealth
1996
November 22, 1996
SPEAKER: Cynthia Rogers and Stephen Ellis, Research Assistant Professor, Regional Research
Institute, West Virginia University; Visiting Scholar, Rutgers University
WORKSHOP: Local Economic Development as a Game
November 13, 1996
SPEAKER: Raymond Florax, Guest Speaker, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
PANELISTS: Luc Anselin, Research Professor, Regional Research Institute, West Virginia
University; Attila Varga, Research Assistant, Regional Research Institute, West Virginia University
WORKSHOP: Role of Universities in the Regional Economy
November 8, 1996
SPEAKER: Lisa Kelly, Assistant Professor of Law, West Virginia University
TOPIC: Race and Place: Defining Community in the Post-Shaw Era
November 1, 1996
SPEAKER: Kenneth C. Martis, Professor of Geography, West Virginia University
TOPIC: Districts, Parties, and Voting: The Geography Behind the 1996 Elections
October 25, 1996
SPEAKER: Robert Walker, Associate Professor of Geography, Florida State University
TOPIC: Ecosystem Change and the Regional Economy: The Case of Human Encroachment into
South Florida
October 18, 1996
SPEAKER: Beth Barnett and Gregory Elmes, Assistant Professor of Community Medicine; Professor of Geography, West Virginia University
WORKSHOP: Defining Regions for Epidemiologic Studies of Uneven Development and Cardiovascular Disease
October 11, 1996
SPEAKER: Roger Lohmann, Professor of Social Work, West Virginia University
WORKSHOP: Aging and Civil Society
October 4, 1996
SPEAKER: Gary Hunt, Libra Professor in Regional Economics, University of Maine
TOPIC: Are Native Workers Harmed by Immigration? Regional Labor Market Adjustment in the U.S.
September 13, 1996
SPEAKER: Paul Knox, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Professor of Urban Affairs, Director, Center for Urban and Regional Studies, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
TOPIC: The New Urbanism: A Geographical Perspective
APRIL 26, 1996
SPEAKER: Amy K. Glasmeier, Professor and Head, Department of Geography, Pennsylvania State University
TOPIC: How Do Firms Learn? Increasing Competitiveness and the Role of Internal and External Environments
April 19, 1996
SPEAKER: Ann R. Tickamyer, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Kentucky
TOPIC: Public Policy and Private Lives: Social and Spatial Dimensions of Women’s Poverty
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and Welfare Policy in Rural Appalachia
March 22, 1996
SPEAKER: Lawrence A. Brown, President, North American Regional Science Council, President Elect, Association of American Geographers, Professor and Chair, Department of Geography, Ohio State University
TOPIC: Recent Economic Change and Migration in the Ohio River Valley
March 15, 1996
SPEAKER: Timothy J. Bartik, Senior Economist, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
TOPIC: Guiding Principles for Effective Strategies for Local Economic Development
February 16, 1996
SPEAKER: V. Kerry Smith, Director of the Center for Environmental and Resource Economics, Duke University
TOPIC: The Role of Regional Relevance in Environmental Economics
1995
December 1, 1995
SPEAKER: David M. Mark, Professor of Geography and Associate Director, National Center for Geographic Information Systems and Analysis (NCGIA), SUNY, Buffalo
TOPIC: Representations in Language, Culture, and Geographic Information Systems
November 17, 1995
SPEAKER: Altina L. Waller, Professor and Head, Department of History, University of Connecticut
TOPIC: Hatfields and McCoys: Understanding Social Change in Appalachia
October 27, 1995
SPEAKER: Roger E. Bolton, Brough Professor of Economics, Williams College
TOPIC: An Economist’s Interpretation of a ‘Sense of Place
October 6, 1995
SPEAKER: Wilpen L. Gorr, Professor of Public Policy and Management Information Systems, H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
TOPIC: New Bayesian Methods for Regional Forecasting: Applications to Infant Mortality and Revenue Forecasting
September 15, 1995
SPEAKER: Gerard Rushton, Professor of Geography and Hospital and Health Administration, University of Iowa
TOPIC: Geographic Information Systems and Public Health