Stephen Brown (Economics) and his co-author, Maura Allaire (graduate student at the University of North Carolina at time of publication, now assistant professor at UC Irvine), recently received the award for best paper covering the period of 2012-16 at the International Association for Energy Economics Conference in Groningen, Netherlands, for the article "The Green Paradox of U.S. Biofuel Subsidies: Impact on Greenhouse Gas Emissions" published in  Economics of Energy & Environment Policy in September 2015.