Much of the program is focused in areas where those five themes overlap. Research interests and recent publications of individual faculty members are summarized in the faculty section. Because funds for research and for graduate student support are derived primarily from grants and contracts, the Department’s research is characterized by a high level of entrepreneurial activity in which faculty members work individually and together with others in their own and other departments to develop research proposals to submit to funding agencies. In addition, the state-supported Rural Economic Analysis Program (REAP) supports research on state-level problems.

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