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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

  • 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.

  • Man with gray hat, navy t-shirt sitting on hill with walking stick, prairie smoke in foreground

    Jonathan Lundgren to present 2025 Shivvers Memorial Lecture, Feb. 5

    January 7, 2025

    Award-winning scientist and pioneering farmer Jonathan Lundgren, will present the 2025 Shivvers Lecture on Feb. 5, at 7:30 p.m., in the Sun Roon of Iowa State University’s Memorial Union. The event is free and open to the public. Lundgren, an agroecologist, farmer, rancher and beekeeper, is executive director of Ecdysis Foundation and CEO of Blue Dasher Farm. The event is hosted by the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture (LCSA) and the Graduate Program in Sustainable Agriculture (GPSA) at Iowa State. Light refreshments will be provided. 

     

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