Contact: Bruce Godfrey, 435-797-2294, bruceg@ext.usu.edu
Writer: Jacob Roskelley, 435-797-1350, jacobr@cc.usu.edu
LOGAN - The Western Agricultural Economics Association awarded
Bruce Godfrey the Distinguished Scholars Award June 30. Godfrey, a
professor in the department of economics, is the first Utah State
University professor to receive the award.
“Bruce is an outstanding teacher and communicator who is equally
effective teaching agricultural producers as he is teaching college
students,” said DeeVon Bailey, the interim head of the economics
department. “There haven’t been many people who have served Utah
State more unselfishly or effectively than he has.”
Godfrey received the award for his work with WAEA and his research
in the area of agricultural economics. His research primarily focuses
on the economics of using public and private lands, including the
taxation of agricultural lands, the designation of federal lands as
wilderness and the preservation of open space lands. His research
has been widely cited and used in Utah and other locations in the
West.
The WAEA is an association of approximately 700 agricultural
economists located throughout the world with interests in the
economics of agriculture in the western United States.
Godfrey was the WAEA president in 2004 and served as secretary and
treasurer from 1995 to 2001. He has also received the E.G. Peterson
Award and was the College of Agriculture’s professor of the year in
2005.
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