COLLEGE NEWS
- More Curtiss Hall offices relocate next week
- New course in precision farming offered
- More than 400 from 25 countries visit college
- Leopold deadline for conference-workshop support
COMMUNICATIONS KIOSK
- Praise for International Ag Programs' Web site
INFOGRAZING
- Field day season begins: A few ISU farm facts
EXTERNAL VOICES
- Competing with Cornells, Purdues, Iowa States
MARGINALIA
- Milk ads the cream of the crop
C O L L E G E N E W S
MORE CURTISS HALL OFFICES RELOCATE NEXT WEEK
Next week a few more College of Agriculture offices will relocate
as renovation of Curtiss Hall's first floor begins. Phone numbers
remain the same. Send campus mail to old office addresses -- except
for the Ag Development Office, which moves to Agronomy Hall. Here
they are, by date of move:
June 3: Ag Experiment Station Budget and Fiscal Office (Del Koch,
Barb Martin, Josie Niemand, Laurie Vold) will move to 225 Curtiss.
Ag Career Services (Roger Bruene, Karen Klaiber) will move to
322 Curtiss.
June 4: Ag Development Office (Russ Wilson, Donna Evans) will
move to 2303 Agronomy.
NEW COURSE ON PRECISION FARMING OFFERED
A new experimental course on precision farming will be offered
by the Department of Agricultural & Biosystems Engineering
in the fall. The three-credit course is open to faculty, staff
and students. Precision agriculture involves the use of technologies
like Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and Geographical Information
Systems (GIS) to better manage crops and soil. For more information,
contact U. Sunday Tim, 4-0466 or tim@iastate.edu.
MORE THAN 400 FROM 25 COUNTRIES VISIT COLLEGE
By the end of June, about 400 visitors from more than 25 countries
will have visited the College of Agriculture since last July,
according to International Agriculture Programs. The number is
up from recent years when there were 200 to 300 visitors. About
100 of this year's visitors came from Japan and China.
LEOPOLD DEADLINE FOR CONFERENCE-WORKSHOP SUPPORT
The next deadline for the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture's
Conference and Workshop Support Program is July 1. Requests of
up to $2,500 may be made from Iowa educational and nonprofit organizations.
For details, contact Rich Pirog, 4-1854.
C O M M U N I C A T I O N S K I O S K
PRAISE FOR INTERNATIONAL AG PROGRAMS' WEB SITE
"Radiant" was the term used to describe International
Agriculture Programs' Web site in the April/May newsletter of
NAFSA: Association of International Educators. "It is comprehensive
(with links to banks and government home pages and a listing of
all exchange groups in the state), has broad scope (listing international
opportunities for students and faculty and speaks skillfully to
various audiences," stated the reviewer.
I N F O G R A Z I N G
FIELD DAY SEASON BEGINS: A FEW ISU FARM FACTS
June begins a season of field days at ISU's Research and Demonstration
Farms around the state. Here's a few statistics about the 11 farms:
Number owned or leased by local nonprofit groups: 7
Total acreage of the farms: 6,141
Size in acres of smallest farm, Muscatine Island: 40
Size in acres of largest farm, McNay: 1,968
Number of major soil associations in Iowa: 20
Number of major soil associations covered by the farms: 12
Age of newest farm, Southwest Swine Farm: 1
Age of oldest farm, Northern: 66
Number of visitors to Northern's first summer field day in
1935: 40
Number of visitors to Northern's summer field day in 1995:
251
Number of temporary employees hired to work on the farms
this summer: 29
Number of those who are ISU students: 13
Number of lambs born in February to a Romanov-cross ewe at
McNay farm: 6
Average number of lambs born to Romanov ewes: 3.8
E X T E R N A L V O I C E S
COMPETING WITH CORNELLS, PURDUES AND IOWA STATES
A May 16 press release from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
described an increase in grants received by SIU agriculture faculty.
Tony Young, associate dean for research, said SIU got a lucky
break in hiring these new profs. "In the past, we'd identify
the best Ph.D.s coming out into the job market, but we would be
competing with the Cornells, the Purdues, the Iowa States. Then
about five years ago, a lot of institutions had to start cutting
back on positions, which put us in the driver's seat. We were
able to have our pick of the best in the nation, and we're now
beginning to see the benefits of that."
M A R G I N A L I A
MILK ADS THE CREAM OF THE CROP
The most popular print ads of 1995 were those ubiquitous photos
of celebrities sporting milk mustaches, according to an annual
survey of 20,000 U.S. consumers. Jay Schulberg, creator of the
ads for the National Fluid Milk Processor Promotion Board, said
the milk mustache pushed a lot of powerful buttons with consumers.
"It's a universal symbol of people who drink milk. It's something
every single person on earth can identify with. It conjures up
memories of youth." And, he adds, it would look surprising
and funny on a celebrity's upper lip. In just a year, the campaign
has wormed its way into popular culture, turning up in parodies,
the David Letterman show and as a question on Jeopardy ("Name
an ad that features Vanna White, Nastassja Kinski and Naomi Campbell").
(Wall Street Journal, May 20)