Inside Iowa State: Iowa State University

November 7, 2003

Honors

Who's Who
ISU economists GianCarlo Moschini, Catherine Kling, Dermot Hayes and Bruce Babcock appear in the fourth edition of Who's Who in Economics, a biographical dictionary that includes economists ranked in the top of their field, as measured by citation by peers in refereed journals.

Honorary FFA degree
Ken Larson, professor emeritus of agronomy, will receive an honorary American FFA degree from the National FFA Organization. He is being recognized for his work with FFA Crops Career Development events in Missouri and Iowa that he began in 1970.

Educator of the year
Linda Quinn Allen, assistant professor of French and foreign language education, has been named Outstanding Educator of the Year (college and university level) by the Iowa World Language Association. Allen teaches a methods course for secondary world language students and supervises prospective world language teachers during their student teaching practicum. She serves as the world language licensure coordinator for the Iowa Department of Education. Allen also has shared her expertise with Iowa elementary and secondary language instructors over the Iowa Communications Network.