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Furthering farm education with Extension

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Research

Undergraduates partner with zoo to save threatened turtles

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Learning

NREM students bring wildlife wonder into the classroom

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“You're a lot more capable than you think you are. Have confidence in yourself to try to take hold of some of those opportunities.”
Gillian Anderson, '24 agricultural and rural policy studies, international agriculture

Hands-on approach

From Cyclones in the making to those already formed, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences has a place for everyone. The innovations made in the labs, the farms, the forests and the fields strive to carry out Iowa State’s original land grant mission: discovering, developing, disseminating and preserving knowledge.

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Recent News

  • Francis Owusu

    Owusu to lead global engagement programs at Iowa State

    January 13, 2025

    Francis Owusu, former department chair and now professor of community and regional planning at Iowa State’s College of Design, will become the next CALS associate dean for global engagement and director of the Center for Sustainable Rural Livelihoods, effective March 17.

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    Iowa State University scientists lead breakthrough to understand contents of plant cells

    January 13, 2025

    Iowa State University scientists has made a significant breakthrough in scientists’ ability to identify specific proteins within individual plant cells. Professor Justin Walley and Christian Montes, a research scientist, in the Department of Plant Pathology, Entomology and Microbiology, led the work to develop a method for single-cell proteomics, or SCP. Their findings were reported recently in the New Phytologist, one of the leading journals in the world of plant sciences.   

  • Dan Robison and Sam Easterling placing a medallion around the neck of Amy Kaleita.

    Kaleita named to new endowed chair position established for Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering

    January 10, 2025

    Amy Kaleita, professor and chair in the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, was presented the inaugural Larry and Bunita Buss Department Chair in Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering during a medallion ceremony Jan. 8 in the Sukup Atrium of the Biorenewables Complex on Iowa State’s campus.

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