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STORIES Online October 2012College NewsAG CAREER DAY BREAKS RECRUITER RECORDThe college is conducting its largest job fair today with more than 200 organizations in attendance, compared with 175 last year. Ag Career Day, the largest agricultural job recruitment event in the country, is taking place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Lied Recreation Athletic Center. More...FALL ONLINE ENROLLMENT IN CALS HITS RECORDThe college's online learning program hit record enrollment numbers this fall, with 1,228 registrations, an increase of 43 percent over fall semester 2011. Online classes offer an alternative for students who return home, study abroad or participate in internships. Departments with the largest enrollment include agronomy, food science and human nutrition and agricultural education and studies. More...ISU RESEARCHERS DEVELOP “BIGDATA” TOOLBOXThe latest DNA sequencing technology is burying researchers in trillions of bytes of data. ISU’s Patrick Schnable, agronomy, and Srinivas Aluru, electrical and computer engineering, are developing a toolbox to help life sciences researchers analyze all that data. The work is supported by a $2 million grant from the BIGDATA program of the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. More...DEAL LEADERSHIP LECTURE PODCAST AVAILABLEJim Farrell, president and CEO of Farmers National Company, presented the 2012 William K. Deal Endowed Leadership Lecture on Sept. 20 at Iowa State University. His presentation, "The Changing Role of Leaders in a Bullish Farmland Market," is now available as an audio file. More...CYCLONE STAMPEDE MARKS 50TH ANNIVERSARYISU hosted the 50th anniversary Cyclone Stampede rod! eo Oct. 6. ISU and 18 other Midwest universities competed in nine rodeo events including bareback and bull riding, team roping, goat tying and steer wrestling. More...LANDSCAPE CLUB DIGS DAY OF SERVICE AT CAPITOLMembers of the ISU Landscape Club volunteered their time and talents to install two beautification projects on the capitol grounds in Des Moines during the inaugural Iowa Nursery and Landscape Association Day of Service Sept. 12. The service learning project also gave students a valuable opportunity to network with industry professionals. More...ISU EXTENSION AND OUTREACH Q&A ON FALL LAWN CAREProper lawn care in fall helps ensure an attractive, healthy lawn next season. Important fall lawn care practices include raking, mowing, fertilizing and controlling broadleaf weeds. More...Alumni NewsREDISCOVERED PHOTOS DETAIL EARLY 1900’S FOREST SERVICE WORKPhotographs taken by James Campbell Whitham ('11 forestry), a career Forest Service official who served mainly in Montana in the early 1900s have recently been posted online courtesy the Museum of the Rockies. Scenes include Forest Service survey explorations high into the Beartooth Mountains in 1911 and camps of saluting Boy Scouts at “Camp Custer” in 1915, street scenes in downtown Billings, Absarokee and Missoula and horse-packing trips into the Spanish Peaks south of Bozeman in 1936. The photographs’ discovery and Whitham’s life were recently reported in the Billings Gazette. More...BUCHANAN PRESENTS DISTINGUISHED LECTURE ON LAND GRANTS AT AUBURNGale Buchanan (PhD '65 plant physiology) delivered the fall 2012 E.T. York Distinguished Lecture, "Land-Grant University: An American Icon” on Oct. 11 as part of Auburn University’s observances of the 150th anniversary of the nation's land-grant college system. Buchanan is dean and director emeritus of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at the University of Georgia’s Tifton Campus. He has served as dean of Auburn’s College of Agriculture and director of the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station; the dean and director of UGA’s College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences; and undersecretary for Research, Education and Economics in the U.S. Department of Agriculture. BERTRAM CHAIR OF IOWA BANKERS ASSOCIATION AG COMMITTEELori J. Bertram ('94 ag business) has been named chairwoman of the Iowa Bankers Association’s Agriculture Committee. She will serve as a liaison between the banking and agriculture communities including farm organizations, Iowa State University, Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship, the Rural Economic and Community Development division of USDA and other agencies. Bertram has 18 years of lending experience, specializing in agricultural lending. She is vice president/senior loan officer for TSB Bank in Titonka. Class Notes1990s |
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