The center is committed to supporting the next generation of researchers in agricultural commodity markets. OFOR provides scholarships to pursue graduate studies in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics at the University of Illinois (https://ace.illinois.edu/academics/graduate-degrees). Through these graduate programs, OFOR students receive courses specialized in our research focus (link to SPECIALIZED COURSES tab).
What OFOR provides to our students
- Scholarships and tuition-free graduate studies.
- Research resources
- Our students have access to a wealth of databases such as Chicago Mercantile Exchange high-frequency data, Bloomberg, or Barchart (https://www.barchart.com/) data.
- Computing resources
- We allow our students to choose their research topics within the central research focus.
- Receive advice from prominent scholars (link to FACULTY tab).
- Teaching opportunities.
Close interaction with FarmDoc (https://farmdoc.illinois.edu/) offers our students opportunities to conduct outreach activities and engage with stakeholders.