The College of Agriculture Newsletter
Iowa State University
September 29, 1995 No. 28

COLLEGE NEWS
- Grantsmanship workshop
- Leopold Center moves
- 4-H breakfast Oct. 6
- Award nominations
- Interim PAT/IPM coordinator
- Ag student royalty
- Deadlines & Reminders
COMMUNICATIONS KIOSK
- Email or fax
INFOGRAZING
- R&D funding in 2002
EXTERNAL VOICES
- R&D predictions through 2005
MARGINALIA
- Comic strip explains ISU research

GRANTSMANSHIP WORKSHOP
Hallmarks of Successful Research Grant Proposals, a workshop on grantsmanship, will be held Monday, Oct. 2, at 7 p.m., in the Cardinal Room, Memorial Union. Researchers will outline essential strategies used in successful grant proposals in animal health, animal science and plant science. This is the first in a series of grantsmanship workshops sponsored by the Experiment Station and the College of Veterinary Medicine. Attendees are asked to RSVP by contacting Sue Lamont, 294-3629 (sjlamont@iastate.edu) or Prem Paul, 294-0913 (pspaul@iastate.edu).

LEOPOLD CENTER MOVES
The Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture has moved into 209 Curtiss Hall. Center phone and fax numbers remain unchanged. Personnel in the office include Dennis Keeney, Jackie Becker, April Franksain, Anne Larson, Jeri Neal, Rich Pirog and Liz Weber. Account specialist Ken Anderson and visiting scientist Bill Vorley will have an office in 130 National Soil Tilth Lab. For more information: 294-3711.

4-H BREAKFAST OCT. 6
College faculty and staff are invited to attend the annual 4-H breakfast and recognize ISU students who are state 4-H leaders or award winners. The breakfast, with a brief program, begins at 7:30 a.m., Friday, Oct. 6, on the second floor of Curtiss Hall. For more information: Gaylan Scofield, 294-0045.

AWARD NOMINATIONS
Nomination forms for 1995-96 College of Agriculture and university awards are available in departmental and area extension offices. (Also, look for the Professional & Staff Council's forms for P&S Staff Excellence Awards and Regents Staff Excellence Awards.) Please note that the nominations deadline for the awards listed below is Nov. 22, not Nov. 8 indicated on the college "critical dates" calendar: Louis Thompson Award to Outstanding Adviser; University Professor; Charles F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor; Regents Faculty Excellence Awards; James H. Ellis Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Introductory Teaching; ISU Foundation Award for Career Achievement in Teaching; ISU Foundation Award for Early Achievement in Teaching; ISU Foundation Award for Career Achievement in Extension/Professional Practice; ISU Foundation Award for Early Achievement in Extension/Professional Practice; ISU Foundation Award for Career Achievement in Research; ISU Foundation Award for Early Achievement in Research.

INTERIM PAT/IPM COORDINATOR
Sorrel Brown will serve as interim coordinator of the Pesticide Management and the Environment Program, which includes pesticide applicator training, integrated pest management and pesticide impact assessment programs. She steps in for Wendy Wintersteen, who is now interim director of ISU Extension to Agriculture and interim associate dean for industry programs in the college. Brown will continue to manage the North Central Region Educational Materials Project.

AG STUDENT ROYALTY
Each of these agriculture students currently represents a segment of the Iowa livestock industry: Stacey Henzen, ag business, is Iowa Beef Queen. Andrea Steffens, dairy science, is Iowa Dairy Princess and Stacia Piggott, dairy science, is the alternate Iowa Dairy Princess. Chandra Herrstrom, ag business, is Iowa Pork Queen and Kaitlyn Bean, public service and administration in agriculture, is Iowa Pork Princess. In the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Amy McGregor, psychology, is Iowa Beef Princess.

DEADLINES & REMINDERS
Oct. 2 -- Hallmarks of Successful Research Grant Proposals workshop, Cardinal Room, Memorial Union
Oct. 6 -- 4-H Breakfast, second floor, Curtiss Hall
Oct. 7 -- Parent and Family Weekend college reception, Scheman
Oct. 7 -- Ag Alumni Tent-A-Gate, east of Olsen Building
Oct. 12 -- Promotion & tenure committee nominations due, 479 Heady

E-MAIL OR FAX
According to a Gallup poll, the average worker in a large corporation gets about 14 e-mail messages a day and sends about 10. About half of the respondents picked fax over e-mail for urgent documents, with corporate users faxing about 41 documents daily. (Information Week, Sept. 4)

R&D FUNDING IN 2002
The director of science and policy for the American Association for the Advancement of Science sees some lean years ahead for non-military R&D, predicting that by 2002, funding for non-defense-related research will decrease by a third from today's level. "It's not a very pleasant picture to contemplate," he says. (BNA Daily Environment Report, Aug. 30)

R&D PREDICTIONS THROUGH 2005
"We're standing at the threshold of a golden age for biology . . . In fact, if you look back at where the computer industry was 10 or 15 years ago, that's where biological and genetic research is now," says Douglas Olesen, CEO of the Battelle research institute in Ohio. He was speaking of genetic mapping, which Battelle's technology experts predict will be one of the top 10 technologies in the next 10 years. The other 9: super materials, high-density energy sources, digital HDTV, miniaturization, smart manufacturing, anti-aging products and services, medical treatments, hybrid-fuel vehicles and "edutainment." (The Futurist, September/October)

COMIC STRIP EXPLAINS ISU RESEARCH
"Consider the plight of the lowly moth . . . Small, solitary, blundering around in the dark with its single-digit IQ . . . How on earth do they ever find each other to reproduce?" That's the first panel of a two-page comic strip in the August issue of Discover magazine. Cartoonist Larry Gonick answers the question using research results from ISU and the University of Massachusetts. Gonick interviewed entomology department chair Tom Baker and former ISU grad student Neil Vickers about their studies on the navigational abilities of male moths. Both are mentioned in the strip and Vickers is depicted in cartoon-form (of course). The research may help improve the use of environmentally friendly phermones, which disrupt the mating of crop-ravaging pests.

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Next issue: Oct. 13. Deadline: Oct. 9.