2002 News & Featured Stories Archive
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October 23, 2002AMES, Iowa — The Iowa Intellectual Property Law Association has named Iowa State University animal scientist Max Rothschild the 2002 Inventor of the Year.
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October 22, 2002DES MOINES, Iowa — The work of the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture may be more critical now than in 1987 when legislators created the research center, its director told supporters Monday night in Des Moines. "All of us understand th
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October 20, 2002AMES, Iowa — Thirteen leaders of agricultural industry, plant sciences research, commodity groups and government have been named to the board of the Plant Sciences Institute at Iowa State University. They will assemble in Ames on Tuesday, Oct.
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October 15, 2002
AMES, Iowa—Iowa State University alumnus Tom Sutherland and Jean Sutherland, Fort Collins, Colorado, have taken the lead in establishing the Jay Lush Endowed Professorship in Animal Breeding and Genetics with a $500,000 contribution to Iowa State
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October 15, 2002AMES, Iowa — Patty Judge, secretary of agriculture for the state of Iowa, will speak on "The Role of Horticulture in Iowa's Economy," at 4:10 p.m., Monday, Oct.21, in 118 Horticulture Hall, at Iowa State University.
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October 14, 2002AMES, Iowa - As part of the on-going Iowa State University Department of Agronomy centennial celebration, ISU agronomy students will fill a time capsule to be opened at the department's 150th anniversary.
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October 14, 2002AMES, Iowa — Researchers at Iowa State University have concluded that genetically altered corn isn't to blame for higher-than-normal pseudopregnancy rates in sows on five Iowa farms. An Iowa farmer first raised concerns that the Bacillus thuri
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October 7, 2002AMES, Iowa — A new Center for Integrated Animal Genomics at Iowa State University will work to identify, map and understand the function and control of genes to improve both animal and human health. "The center's goal is to make Iowa State Uni
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October 4, 2002
AMES, Iowa — About 130 employers are expected at Agriculture Career Day on Tuesday, Oct. 22, at Iowa State University. Ag Career Day will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the Great Hall and Campanile Room of the Memorial Union.
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October 3, 2002AMES, Iowa — Mary-Elizabeth West is the first recipient of the Walter E. and Frances C. Lauridsen Scholarship.
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October 1, 2002AMES, Iowa — Iowa State University has entered into a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to develop a national program for biobased products evaluation, labeling and outreach.
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September 29, 2002AMES, Iowa - New research at Iowa State University may help answer questions about the relationship between swine production and air quality. Two projects, both funded by the Iowa Pork Producers Association, are led by Wendy Powers, an assista
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September 29, 2002AMES, Iowa - Results of the 2002 Iowa Crop Performance Test for alfalfa are now available on the Internet. The alfalfa test included approximately 60 entries of commercial and experimental varieties conducted at Ames and Nashua.
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September 29, 2002AMES, Iowa — Norman Borlaug, who won the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize for a lifetime of work to feed a hungry world, will present the first annual Borlaug Lecture, 8 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 15, at Iowa State University.
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September 26, 2002AMES, Iowa — When the ecoterrorist group Earth Liberation Front torched his campus building, horticulture professor John Wott lost more than 30 years of teaching materials.
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September 19, 2002IOWA'S CIDER MEETS SAFETY STANDARDS As this year's apples ripen, researchers at Iowa State University are finding that producers are following safe and sanitary procedures for cider manufacturing.
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September 16, 2002
AMES, Iowa — Iowa State University will host three workshops on the production and use of biodiesel fuel.
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September 15, 2002
AMES, Iowa - Of the nearly 3 billion bushels of soybeans produced in the United States each year, more than a third is exported. More than 70 percent of the buyers of exported soybeans request information on protein and oil content.
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September 12, 2002AMES, Iowa — Dean DellaPenna, a plant biochemist at Michigan State University, East Lansing, will speak on "Engineering Plants for Enhanced Nutrition: A Role for Nutritional Genomics," at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 18.
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September 11, 2002AMES, Iowa — Iowa State University announced two intellectual property gifts — an enterprise software system and crop forecasting system — from Cargill, Incorporated, Minneapolis, which will enhance student learning and advance Iowa State's res