News & Featured Stories Archive
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November 3, 2023
Ashley Hipnar, senior in environmental science, Natalie Young, senior in global resource systems, and Jayna Misra, senior in environmental science and global resource systems, spent their summer interning in Kosovo. During their experiences, they put into practice the skills they are learning in their classes and enhanced their understanding of other cultures.
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October 25, 2023
Does conducting research for an international organization on the weekdays and exploring one of the most ancient cities in the world on the weekends sound interesting to you?
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October 19, 2023
The Pappajohn Center for Entrepreneurship, in collaboration with the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the Ivy College of Business, presents the second annual Food Insecurity Challenge. This unique challenge invites students and local community members from diverse disciplines to form teams and create innovative solutions to this global issue.
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Study examines factors influencing farmers’ use of nutrient management practices
October 16, 2023Read More about Study examines factors influencing farmers’ use of nutrient management practicesA study of Iowa farmers’ use of 4R Plus nutrient management practices offers insights into social, economic, and ecological influences on adoption that operate at both an individual level and within a larger, county-level context.
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October 15, 2023
In the pursuit of strengthening higher education and promoting meaningful academia-industry partnerships, the USAID-funded Private Sector Partnerships to Strengthen Higher Education activity joins forces with three public universities in
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October 13, 2023
Management of the Hinds Irrigation Farm was turned over to the Iowa State University Horticulture Research Station last year. This past summer, plant pathology researchers used it to conduct 40 different projects looking at diseases in corn and soybeans.
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October 13, 2023
Sierra McCoy, senior in forestry, installed informational, interactive signs across Iowa State University’s campus to help educate individuals about the trees they see.
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October 5, 2023
The Iowa Soybean Research Center’s Industry Advisory Council (IAC) met in September for its annual meeting to consider proposed soybean research ideas and offer guidance on how to best invest $414,000 in available new funding. Based on the IAC’s recommendations, the ISRC Management Team funded three new soybean research projects, which will be led by Silvina Arias and Leonor Leandro, both in the Department of Plant Pathology, Entomology and Microbiology at Iowa State.
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October 2, 2023
This is the third and final story in a series highlighting CALS researchers and their journeys to funding and enlightenment.
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October 2, 2023
AMES, Iowa –Registration is open for the upcoming conference titled “Anaerobic Digestion on the Farm – Optimizing Environmental and Economic Outcomes for Rural Communities and Beyond,” Nov. 6-8, 2023, at Iowa State University in Ames. Early-bird rates are available through Oct. 6. The conference will be hosted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 7, Iowa State University and the University of Iowa.
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October 2, 2023
The Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering has introduced a new option in their industrial technology major, preparing students for the expanding field of biological and biomanufacturing systems.
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October 2, 2023
AMES, Iowa – Students are polishing resumes and researching which companies they want to check out in preparation for the upcoming College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Career Day.
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September 25, 2023
AMES, Iowa – Sorghum is a productive and versatile annual crop used worldwide for livestock feed.
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September 24, 2023
This fall, as part of USAID's Private Sector Partnerships to Strengthen Higher Education Activity, staff from Kosova's public universities consider a new approach to embracing data with a series of Education Analytics train
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September 19, 2023
Ames, IA — The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has declared 2023 as the International Year of Millets, but these crops are unfamiliar to many Iowa farmers.
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September 18, 2023
Regan Kramer, junior in agricultural studies and international agriculture, spent her summer interning on a New Zealand dairy farm owned by Chad and Jan Winke. Of particular use during Kramer’s internship were the lessons learned in the dairy cattle science class she took at Iowa State.
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September 18, 2023
A one-day conference, PFAS: Impact on the Planet and Solutions for the Packaging Industry, will be held Nov. 2, in Madison, Wisconsin. Co-sponsors include the Polymer and Food Protection Consortium at Iowa State University, the Green Bay Innovation Group and the Grainger Institute for Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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September 15, 2023
Jenna Errthum, senior in horticulture, global resource systems and Spanish, and Cooper Hess, senior in biology with a minor in global health, are the recipients of this year’s Roger Grundmeier Innovation and Leadership Award, offered to students in Iowa State University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Scholarship recipients are selected based on their demonstration of “going above and beyond in their efforts to collaborate and innovate” during their college career.
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September 14, 2023
An Iowa State University-led group will lead training for a process to measure and monitor soil carbon stocks as part of a new national program meant to provide a basis for financial assistance to farmers and landowners who adopt climate-smart conservation practices. The “Know Your Carbon Landscape” project will also gather data to support carbon-related research and education at demonstration sites in the Midwest that are part of a Long-Term Agroecosystem Research (LTAR) network coordinated by USDA’s Agricultural Research Service.
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September 13, 2023
Poster abstracts are now being accepted for the 20th Annual Norman Borlaug Lectureship Poster Competition for Graduate and Undergraduate Students. The competition and display of posters will take place Monday, Oct. 23, in the Memorial Union at Iowa State University, prior to the Norman Borlaug Lecture featuring 2023 World Food Prize Laureate Heidi Kühn.