Professor Kenneth J. Button delivered the keynote address “Changing Course: New Challenges for Financial Viability and Economic Sustainability in Aviation” at the 12th Hamburg (Germany) Aviation Conference: Current Challenges in a Distressed Industry, February 11–13, 2009.
Also on February 11 in Hamburg, Button presented “Low Cost Airlines: A Failed Business Model?” at the GARS Workshop: New Issues in Airline and Airport Economics.
On February 20, Button presented “The Economic Challenges of Framing a National Transportation Policy” at the Mercatus Center’s Chief of Staff Retreat in Philadelphia.

Professor Christopher T. Hill presented “Science and Technology Information for Congress: Can Wikipedia Do the Job?” during the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s annual meeting in Chicago, February 12–16.

Phillip W. Magness (PhD student) presented his paper “Colonization after the Emancipation Proclamation: Abraham Lincoln’s Emigration Projects in Belize and British Guyana, 1863–1864” at the Indiana Association of Historians 29th annual meeting: Lincoln’s Legacy. The conference took place February 27–28 in Fort Wayne. View the program brochure.

Affiliate Professor Frank Manheim spoke on renewable energy policy at the Arlington Learning in Retirement Institute in Arlington, Virginia, on February 23.