2018 News & Featured Stories Archive
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November 13, 2018
AMES, Iowa — Adam Thoms, assistant professor of horticulture at Iowa State University, researches sports turf maintenance to help keep young athletes safe while competing.
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November 12, 2018
AMES, Iowa – Steven Lonergan, an Iowa State University animal science professor, was awarded one of two 2018 national U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Agriculture Sciences Excellence in Teaching Awards.
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November 12, 2018
AMES, Iowa — Two Iowa State University scientists and a U.S.
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November 7, 2018
Students built a Sukup Safe T Home in five hours on Nov. 5. The home build was part of Agricultural Entrepreneurship Week and is an example of social entrepreneurship, using skills and innovative ideas to benefit others.
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November 7, 2018Hans Riensche, a sophomore majoring in agricultural business and international agriculture with a minor in agronomy, is a part of the sixth generation of a family that has been farming the same land since 1858. Riensche is broadening his international perspective in hopes to return to the family farm with ideas to make it even better.
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November 2, 2018
AMES, Iowa — The Iowa State University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) and the Iowa State University Alumni Association presented awards at the annual Honors and Awards Ceremony on Oct. 26.
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November 1, 2018
AMES, Iowa – Student volunteers are building a Sukup Safe T Home® in the Hansen Agriculture Student Learning Center* at Iowa State University to kick-off Agricultural Entrepreneurship Week from 2-5 p.m. on Nov. 5.
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October 30, 2018
AMES, Iowa — The Iowa Academy of Science has presented its Friend of Science Education Award to Ginny Mitchell, education program coordinator of the Insect Zoo at Iowa State University.
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October 29, 2018
AMES, Iowa – A student in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Iowa State University received the George Washington Carver Spirit of Innovation and Service Award at Tuskegee University.
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October 26, 2018
Iowa State University’s Department of Animal Science celebrates 100 years of meat science in November when current and retired faculty, alumni and students will gather to recognize one of the country’s first land-grant meat science programs.
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October 24, 2018
AMES, Iowa – Governor Kim Reynolds signed a proclamation recently designating Nov. 5-9 as Agricultural Entrepreneurship Week.
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October 23, 2018
Improving the odds of a successful cash crop after cover crops is the aim of several new projects funded by the Iowa Nutrient Research Center at Iowa State University.
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October 22, 2018
AMES, Iowa — The Iowa Monarch Conservation Strategy recently added best management practices to guide Iowans in helping increase monarch butterfly habitat.
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October 19, 2018
DES MOINES, Iowa – The World Food Prize presented the inaugural “Inspiring the Next Generation” award to Iowa State University Associate Dean David Acker.
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October 19, 2018
DES MOINES, Iowa – The World Food Prize Foundation has announced Hans Riensche, an Iowa State University student, as the recipient of the 2018 John Chrystal Award at the 2018 World Food Prize Laureate Award Ceremony at the Iowa St
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October 18, 2018Andrew Larson, a junior in forestry, is serving as co-director of the Homecoming Central Committee. Larson, along with his co-director Grace Rosson, a senior in apparel, merchandising and design, oversee everything related to homecoming including Yell Like Hell, displays, a parade, Cy Factor, Cardinal Court and serving food on campus.
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October 18, 2018
AMES, Iowa —Alyssa Dougherty, a junior at Iowa State University studying dietetics and global resource systems, is the recipient of the 2018 David Lambert Hunger Fighter Memorial Scholarship.
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October 11, 2018
AMES, Iowa – The Iowa State University Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering held a groundbreaking ceremony Oct.
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October 8, 2018
AMES, Iowa — The Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University has honored an agricultural policymaker and a conservation-minded farmer with its Spencer Award for Sustainable Agriculture.