• First Place Poster Award, Southern Agricultural Economics Association Selected Poster Competition, J. Matthew Fannin, Kenneth W. Paxton, John D. Barreca, and Huizhen Niu. "Evaluating the Switch from Cotton to Corn: Impacts on the Louisiana Economy", Southern Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, Dallas, Texas, February, 5 2008.

• Second Place Poster Award, American Agricultural Economics Association Selected Poster Competition, Tao Ran, Jinhua Zhao, and Huizhen Niu. "Measuring the Impact of Livestock Operations Using Hedonic Model: What Kind of Distances Matter", American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, July, 30 2007.

• First Place Poster Award, American Agricultural Economics Association Selected Poster Competition, Vandeveer, Lonnie, Patricia Soto, Steven Henning, Huizhen Niu and Rebecca Mclaren. "Measuring Spatial Dynamic of Growth at the Urban Fringe", American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, August 1-4, 2004.

• Third Place Poster Award, American Agricultural Economics Association Selected Poster Competition, Patricia Soto, Vandeveer, Lonnie, Steven Henning, and Huizhen Niu. "Rural-Urban Fringe Land Areas: A Spatial Snapshot", American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, July 29th, 2003.

• McGraw-Hill/Irwin Distinguished Paper Award, Southwestern Society of Economists Paper Competition, Vandeveer, Lonnie, Patricia Soto, and Huizhen Niu. "A Statewide Spatial Analysis of the Effects of Location and Economic Development on Rural Land Values", Southwestern Society of Economists Annual Meetings, New Orleans, Louisiana, February 27-March 3, 2001.

• First Place Paper Award, Valuation 2000 Paper Competition, Lonnie R., Steven A Henning, Gary A. Kennedy, and Huizhen Niu. "Land Values at the Rural-Urban Fringe: A Spatial Econometric Analysis A Spatial Econometric Analysis, MGM Grand Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, July 10-14, 2000.

• First Place Poster Award, American Agricultural Economics Association Selected Poster Competition, Vandeveer, Lonnie, Patricia Soto, Gary Kennedy, Steven Henning, and Huizhen Niu. "Travel Time-Rural Land Value Relationship in Urban Fringe Areas," American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meetings, Tampa, Florida, July 29-August 2, 2000.

• Soto, P., L.R. Vandeveer, S.A., Henning, and H. Niu. 2003. A Spatial Analysis of Rural Land Market Using Alternative Weight Matrices. Southwestern Economic Review, 3(1): 131-139.

• Vandeveer, L., P. Soto, and H. Niu. “A Statewide Spatial Analysis of the Effects of Location and Economic Development on Rural Land Values.” Southwestern Economic Review, 29(Spring 2002):1-20.

• Henning, Steven A., Lonnie R. Vandeveer, Huizhen Niu, and Gary A. Kennedy. A Spatial Economic Analysis of a Rural Land Market, @ Southwestern Economic Review, 27(1):41-51, Spring 2000.

• Vandeveer, Lonnie R., Steven A. Henning, Gary A. Kennedy, and Huizhen Niu. A Land Values at the Rural-Urban Fringe: A Spatial Econometric Analysis. @ Valuation 2000: Papers and Proceedings, pp. 101-113, ISBN 0-922154-60-0.

• Vandeveer, Lonnie R., Steven A. Henning, Gary A. Kennedy, and Huizhen Niu. A Spatial Data Analysis Procedures for Exploring Rural Land Markets,@ ABSTRACT, Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 31(2):410, 1999.

• Kennedy, Gary A., Lonnie R. Vandeveer, Steven A. Henning, and Huizhen Niu. A Estimating Tract Value Relationships in the Timberland Market,@ ABSTRACT, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 81(5):1324, 1999.

1998- Present. GIS instructor/GIS Coordinator

Student at LSU from fall 1996 to fall 1998, major in Geographic Information System, Computer Science, and Database Management
B.S. Hebei Normal University, China Summer, 1983