------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Diebel is an Associate Professor with Oregon State University. She is located in the off-campus program, OSU Agriculture at EOU in La Grande, OR. Her responsibilities in this program are primarily teaching and advising with a small research component. Dr. Diebel has a strong commitment to students and teaching. She is constantly seeking out new methods and challenges to advance her teaching skills. Penny is responsible for 6-9 courses a year, is a club advisor and has worked with others to implement new opportunities for students in the program, including a World Agriculture course and associated international trip, Ag Ambassador program, and freshman seminar series. She is an active recruiter for the program and advises students in agribusiness and natural resource/environmental economics. She has been active the Western Teaching Symposium Series; AAEA Teaching, Learning and Communications Committee; National Food and Agribusiness Management Education Commission; OSU Writing Intensive Curriculum Program and other teaching and learning work groups. She has pursued interests in distance teaching, including the development of two Blackboard based courses and co-authored journal articles on distance teaching techniques and student learning preferences. She is also an Oregon Writing Project Fellow and recipient of several teaching awards including the Wade Excellence in Teaching Award from the College of Agricultural Sciences at Oregon State University and the 2000 Undergraduate Teaching Award: Less than 10 Years from the Western Agricultural Economics Association
In addition to her research on teaching and learning, Dr. Diebel has developed a small research program in the area of Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics. Her research addresses issues pertinent to the eastern part of Oregon: such as grass seed field burning, alternative crop economics, weed-free hay cooperatives and water quality. She also works with colleagues on research teaching pedagogy in the classroom and as distance education. Dr. Diebel has also maintained a professional service commitment serving on committees of many association including the American Agricultural Economics Association, Western Agricultural Economics Association (WAEA), Committee on Women in Agricultural Economics and the National Association of Colleges and Teachers of agriculture. She currently serves as the Vice President of the WAEA. Dr. Diebel received her B.S. in Outdoor Recreation Management and M.S. in Agriculture and Natural Resource Economics both at Colorado State University and her PhD in Agricultural Economics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. She spent many years as an undergraduate working for the Colorado State Parks Division presenting campground interpretation programs, and was involved in park management and law enforcement. While at Virginia Teach she was involved in sustainable agriculture research in the Chesapeake Bay area. Before coming to OSU Dr. Diebel was a faculty member at Kansas State University in Manhattan, KS. She taught both undergraduate and graduate courses and extended her research in sustainable agriculture, agriculture policy and water quality research. She was a 1992 Berg Fellow of the Soil and Water Conservation Society, and with her KSU co-authors was awarded the 1996 Journal of Soil and Water Conservation’s Best Research Article Award.Curriculum Vita (including Publications and Presentations)
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