Since 1888, the Experiment Station has conducted research in the biological, physical and social sciences, to contribute to the advancement of Iowa's agricultural industry and to improve the economic and social condition of Iowa's families and communities.
The Experiment Station’s work represents the efforts of scientists in nearly 24 departments and centers. Although the work primarily focuses on areas in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, the Experiment Station also supports research in other colleges and cooperates with other states' experiment stations to ensure that attention is paid to critical problems, research results are shared and duplication is avoided.
125 Experiment Station Historical Points of Pride
- Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
- Department of Agricultural Education and Studies
- Department of Agronomy
- Department of Animal Science
- Roy J. Carver Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology
- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology
- Department of Economics
- Department of Entomology
- Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition
- Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology
- Department of Horticulture
- Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management
- Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology
- Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice
- Department of Statistics
- Research and Demonstration Farms
- Centers
Examples of Current Experiment Station research projects
- Plants and their systems
- Animal and their systems
- Natural resources and environment/engineering and support systems
- Family and community systems
- Economics, markets and policy
- Food and nonfood products: development, processing, quality and delivery
- Human nutrition, food safety and human health and well-being