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UD receives $6 million in research funding on best practices for how coastal communities can combat sea level rise
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UD’s statistics 4+1 program gives Audrey Bufano valuable internship experience while earning both undergraduate and graduate degrees
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Emma Abrams explores sustainable solutions through UD’s environmental and resource economics major
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Applied Economics and Statistics is concerned with agribusiness management, food marketing, the economics of environmental and resource management, and statistics.
Applied Economics courses are designed to provide a thorough background in the principles of organization and management of agribusiness firms, and includes study of financing agricultural business firms, marketing and international trade of agricultural products, price analysis, environmental economics, economics of land use, and agricultural and environmental policies.
Our mission is to cultivate learning and develop and share knowledge that benefits society. Our focus is to advance economics and statistics methods and theories, and apply them to various subjects, such as health, agriculture, natural resources, the environment, and data science.
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UD receives $6 million in research funding on best practices for how coastal communities can combat sea level rise
September 13, 2024 | Written by Dante LaPentaIn the lowest-lying state in the country, the UD researchers are focused on the project “Risks, Impacts, & Strategies for Coastal Communities.” The project received $6 million in funding; UD will receive more than $3 million for the research. Led by principal investigator Leah Palm-Forster, the team will focus primarily on the risks of flooding and salinization on coastal land. These issues are significant not only in Delaware but also in states like Rhode Island and South Carolina, where UD partners will collaborate on the work. Emi Uchida is leading the Rhode Island team, and Norman Levine is leading the South Carolina team. -
Valuing our ecosystem
September 09, 2024 | Written by Katie Peikes | Photos by Kathy F. AtkinsonUniversity of Delaware researchers receive $1.5 million federal grant to assess the value of ecosystem services. -
Could artificial intelligence be used for grain marketing?
August 12, 2024 | Written by Matt Enright | Lancaster FarmingUniversity of Delaware Assistant Professor of Farm Management and Agricultural Economics Kofi Britwum was interviewed by Lancaster Farming for a story about artificial intelligence and grain marketing. -
Meet our new faculty: Michelle Segovia
July 31, 2024 | Story and photos by Katie PeikesMichelle Segovia joined the UD Department of Applied Economics and Statistics in August 2023. She is an experimental economist who researches consumer behavior and the economics of food choice. She conducts economic experiments to investigate the mechanisms underlying food choice and how these relate to health and nutrition outcomes.
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