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Funded Research Projects


Q. Wang. A Hatch award of $22,800 for a two-year project "Potential Opportunities of Producing and Marketing High Quality Milk" from Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station, 1998-2000.

Beeken, B., J. Parsons, C. Halbrendt, Q. Wang and D. Bousquet. "Character Marked Wood Furniture: Opportunities for Sustainable Rural Development." USDA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program, $65,000, 1998.

Wackernagel, R., G. Allen, B. Bravo-Ureta, C. Halbrendt, D. Lass, N. Pelsue, K. Raper and Q. Wang. "Milk-Market Impacts of the Northeast Dairy Compact." Northeast Dairy Compact Commission, $51,815, 1998-1999.

Halbrendt, C. and Q. Wang. "China's Urban Consumer Demand for Livestock Products and Edible Oils: Implications for U.S. Exports." USDA National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program (NRI), $115,000, 1997-1999.

Kolodinsky, J., Q. Wang and E. Skinner. A Hatch award of $13,647 for a project entitled "The Impact of the Seal of Quality and Vermont Makes It Special Labels on Buyer Behavior" from Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station. 1997-1998.

Kolodinsky, J. and Q. Wang. A Hatch award of $62,995 for a three-year project entitled "Co-Residence of Elders with Adult Children: Socioeconomic Consequences and Policy Implications" from the Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station. 1996-1999.

Halbrendt, C., J. Kolodinsky and Q. Wang. A Hatch award of $27,982 for a two-year project entitled "An Economic Analysis of the Market for Industrial Hemp" from the Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station. 1996-1998.

Wang, Q. An award of $2,000 from The University of Vermont Committee on Research and Scholarship (UCRS) for a research project entitled "China's Urban Consumer Demand for Organically-Grown Food Products and Implications for Trade." 1996.

Halbrendt, C., P. Sullivan and Q. Wang. A grant of $6,260 for a study entitled "Assessment of Community Services for Barton" from the Sustainable Rural Community Development (SRCD) Project (McConnell Grant) at The University of Vermont. 1996.

Scannell, E., P. Sullivan, Q. Wang and C. Halbrendt. A grant of $7,250 for a study entitled "Entrepreneurial Ventures: A Solution to Rural Female Poverty in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom?" from the Sustainable Rural Community Development (SRCD) Project (McConnell Grant) at The University of Vermont. 1996.

Wang, Q. and C. Halbrendt. A research grant of $2,000 from the Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development for a study entitled "Consumer Demand for Organically-GrownFood Products in Urban China." 1995-1996.

Wang, Q. and H. H. Jensen. A research grant of $4,252 for a project entitled "Impacts of Market-Oriented Policy Reforms on Household Food Demand in China" from the World Food Institute at Iowa State University. 1992-1993.



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