By:
Chuck Woods (352) 392-1773 x 281Source(s):
Dorothy Comer comer@mail.ifas.ufl.edu, (352) 392-1826 ext. 213
David Barber DLBarber@mail.ifas.ufl.edu, (352) 392-1847 ext. 214
James Sterns JASterns@ufl.edu, (352) 392-1826 ext. 222
GAINESVILLE, Fla.—Three students in the University of Florida’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences are North American champions in the 2002 Academic Quiz Bowl held at the recent annual meeting of the American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA) in Long Beach, Ca.
Staci Braswell, Tiffany Browning and Morgan Hughes, seniors majoring in food and resource economics at UF, were among 37 teams of students from universities and colleges in the United States and Canada competing in the triple-elimination tournament. A total of 114 students participated in the competition. Questions, which tested their knowledge on basic and advanced concepts, covered areas of economics, marketing, policy, quantitative methods and agribusiness management.
Braswell is from Sebring, Browning is from Ponte Vedra and Hughes is from Palm Valley.
“Our team went through six rounds of competition without a loss, crowning their day by defeating a team from Texas A&M University,” said Dorothy Comer, an associate professor in food and resource economics department who helped coach the two UF teams in the competition. Economists from the University of Minnesota and the U.S. Department of Agriculture served as judges for the final round.
Members of the second UF team were Jared Adcock, Anthony Schreiber and Mark Vuckovic. Other UF faculty and staff in the food and resource economics department assisting Comer with the coaching were James Sterns, assistant professor, and David Barber, coordinator of training in the department. Barber also serves as national adviser to the student section of AAEA.
UF’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, which is part of the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, has more than 3,700 graduate and undergraduate students.
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