Congratulations to Aaron Staples (pictured far right), AREC assistant professor, for being selected as a 2024-2025 Anderson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Research Fellow! The ACEI Fellows Program is designed…
Aaron Staples Selected as ACEI Research Fellow
Summitt Wright Presents Research at Capitol
We’re proud to introduce Summitt Wright, a junior with a double major in AREC’s food and agricultural business, and supply chain management through the Haslam College of Business. Summitt has…
AREC Has Strong Showing at SAEA
The department had a strong showing at the 2024 Southern Agricultural Economics Association’s annual meeting. This year’s meeting was held in Atlanta, Georgia, from February 3-6. Our faculty and graduate…
AREC Poster Wins 3rd Place at SAEA
We’re proud to announce that an AREC poster on “Assessing Tennessee’s Emerging Circular Bioeconomy” won 3rd place at the Southern Agricultural Economics Association’s annual meeting! The AREC team snagging the…
UTIA Hosts Graduate Students from Mexico in International Exchange Pilot Program
Students Share Graduate Research Projects and Explore Tennessee Organic Agriculture. The Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture recently hosted five graduate students…
Developing Opportunities in Argentina
This summer, faculty from the department—Chris Boyer, Aaron Smith, and Jon Walton—developed AREC-centered study-abroad opportunities in Argentina for March 2023. Additionally, the team identified collaborative opportunities for research and Extension…
Cho and Team Win 2022 Success in Multidisciplinary Research Award
Congratulations to Seong-Hoon Cho and team for winning the 2022 Success in Multidisciplinary Research award. The award is given to a team of faculty members in more than one academic…
Burt English Retires
After 35 years of service to our department, Burt English has retired. On April 18, the department held a retirement reception for English to wish him all the best in…
Boyer Named AgResearch Faculty Fellow
Congratulations to Chris Boyer, associate professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, for being named an AgResearch Faculty Fellow! The role of Faculty Fellow carries a 25 percent…
AREC Welcomes Undergraduate Researchers
The Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics has hired eight undergraduate researchers during the 2022 spring semester. The students and their mentors are, as follows: Heather Mannis and Gray Erwin…