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News & Notes
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  • 49th Meeting of the Southern Regional Science Association (SRSA), March 25-27, 2010, Arlington, VA-Washington, DC.

  • Click here for upcoming seminars!

  • We welcome Chel Ho Jeung, Professor, Andong National University, Korea , RRI visiting scholar from January 2010-January 2011.

  • Click here for pics of the RRI holiday party.

  • Click here to view WVU Press Release - Regional economic development experts headed to Morgantown, October 21-22, 2009.

  • "Cash for Clunkers" program shows an unequal distribution of funds between states. For more information and a map prepared by the RRI, click here...

  • We welcome Jaegon Park, Research Fellow, KIET, Korea, RRI visiting scholar from August 1, 2009-July 2010.

  • Karen Turner, University of Strathclyde, UK, conducted a workshop on computable general equilibrium (CGE) modeling, August 10-12, 325 Brooks Hall.

  • We welcome Donald J. Lacombe, from the department of economics at Ohio University who has assumed the duties of Associate Professor at WVU beginning August 16, 2009. He holds joint appointments with the Regional Research Institute, the Division of Resource Management, and the department of economics.

  • The Regional Research Institute and the departments of Economics, Geography, and Resource Economics sponsored another highly successful 3-day Introduction to Spatial Econometrics Workshop in May, 2009. This workshop was a follow-up from the previous "Introduction to Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis" held in December. We thank James LeSage from Texas State University at San Marcos who did a great job!

  • RRI Director elected 2011 President of the Southern Regional Science Association. A vote at the annual meeting of the SRSA in San Antonio, TX elected Randy Jackson President for the year of the Association's 50th anniversary. Jackson will serve as Program Chair for the 2010 SRSA meeting in Washington, DC next March.

  • RRI is currently conducting the following research:
  1. Impact Forecasting thru Econometric IO Model: DOE/NETL, award: $104,118 (6/3/2009-11/14/2009)
  2. Office Systems, Analysis and Planning Support - National and State Economic Impact of NETLDOE/NETL, award: $84,311.11 (01/12/2009-10/03/2009)
  3. Collaborative Research: Evaluation without Bias: New Performance Measures for Business Incubators in Rural America, USDA, award: $499,965 (9/1/2008-8/31/2010)
  4. Economic Impact of Domestic Fossil-based Resources, DOE/NETL, award: $101,958 (2/17/2009-11/14/2009)
  5. Collaborative Research: Performance Measurement and Asset Mapping of Regional Innovation Systems in the United States, EDA, award: $192,647 (09/01/2008-12/31/2009)
  6. Materials Flow Modeling in Sustainable Industrial Systems within Urban Centers, NSF, award: $98,773 (08/01/2006-07/31/2011)
  7. Appalachian Assessment of Natural Assets: Water, ARC award: $248,150 (10/1/2009-0/30/2010)
  8. ARC Planning and Financing Energy Efficient Infrastructure, ARC award: $49,691 (10/1/2009-9/30/2010