Juan Murguia, assistant professor in the Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics, is scheduled to present a seminar, titled “Oh, The More We Get Together: Peer Effects in Early Elementary School,” Friday, Dec. 6, at 3 p.m. in Richard H. Barry Hall room 126.

Murguia received earned his doctorate in economics at Iowa State University. He previously was an agricultural economics assistant professor in the social science department of the Agronomy College of Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay.

His primary field of interest is agricultural, environmental and financial economics, with experimental economics, education and social networks as a secondary interests.

The seminar is free and open to the public.

NDSU is recognized as one of the nation's top 108 public and private universities by the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education.