STORIES Magazine
|
STORIES Online December 2012College NewsCOLLEGE CONVOCATION HONORED GRADUATES SATURDAYMore than 200 Agriculture and Life Sciences students graduated Saturday. Brady McNeil, animal science, was the convocation speaker. The Ag and Life Sciences Student Council presented awards to the following graduates: Matie Hanson, animal science, for academic achievement; Brittany Jurgemeyer, public service and administration in agriculture, for distinguished service; McNeil for outstanding ambassador of agriculture; Kayla Reiter, agricultural business, for leadership excellence; and Andrew Lauver, agricultural studies, for outstanding senior. Jurgemeyer was also the college’s student marshal at the University Commencement. FARMLAND VALUE REACHES HISTORIC $8,296 STATEWIDE AVERAGEAverage Iowa farmland value is estimated to be $8,296 per acre, an increase of 23.7 percent from 2011, according to results of the Iowa Land Value Survey conducted by ISU economist Mike Duffy. This is the third year in a row where values have increased more than 15 percent. More...WORKING TO IMPROVE ECONOMICS OF FEED COSTSHelping livestock producers cope with higher feed costs is a top priority for Kurt Rosentrater, agricultural and biosystems engineering. More...ANIMAL SCIENTISTS CONTRIBUTE TO PIG GENOME ADVANCEThe first complete sequence of the pig genome has been completed by a team of researchers including ISU animal scientists Max Rothschild, James Reecy and Chris Tuggle. More...AG DEANS: SCIENCE EASES DISASTERS’ PAIN“What do these natural disasters have in common? Without science, they probably would have been much worse… if our national leaders do more to support public science as a solution to our challenges, we’ll still be able to say: It could have been worse.” From an opinion piece published Nov. 25 in The Cedar Rapids Gazette and several other publications by Dean Wendy Wintersteen; Allen S. Levine, dean of the College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences, University of Minnesota; Alan Grant, dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Virginia Tech; and Bobby Moser, dean of the College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, The Ohio State University. More...DAIRY SCIENCE STUDENTS IN ‘HOLSTEIN WORLD’ MAGAZINEThe December issue of Holstein World magazine features Iowa State University dairy science students on the cover, in a photo taken at the Iowa State University Dairy Farm. Alumni NewsPOSTON NAMED DEAN OF AG, NATURAL RESOURCES AT MICHIGAN STATEFred Poston (MS ’73 zoology, PhD ’75 entomology), Michigan State University’s vice president for finance and operations, has been selected to serve as dean of the university’s College of Agriculture and Natural Resources and special adviser to the president. The appointment will be effective Jan. 1. Prior to coming to Michigan State, Poston was director of Washington State University's Cooperative Extension Service and associate dean of agriculture and home economics. GOLD STAR CEREMONY HONORS TWO AGRICULTURE STUDENTSAllan Ewoldt was a student at Iowa State College from 1939 through 1941. Ewoldt died in an air strike over Sicily, Italy. More...GOLD STAR CEREMONY HONORS TWO AGRICULTURE STUDENTSTwo former agriculture students who served and died in military service during World War II were honored Nov. 12 in a campus ceremony. Their names were already engraved on the walls of the Gold Star Hall – the war memorial in the Memorial Union – the Gold Star Ceremony offered up a special remembrance of their service. SPENCER AWARD GOES TO CSA FARMERS, CALS ALUMNAISU alumni and owners of a Community Supported Agriculture enterprise in northern Iowa have been chosen as the 2012 recipients of the Spencer Award for Sustainable Agriculture. Jan Libbey (’84 fisheries and wildlife biology) and engineering grad Tim Landgraf operate One Step at a Time Gardens near Kanawha. They will receive the award from the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture on January 11. More...RICHTERS, DOHLMAN NAMED TOP PRODUCER FINALISTSIowa farmers Randall Richter (‘77 agricultural business), Tim Richter (‘81 agronomy) and Jackson Dohlman (‘03 ag studies) were recently named one of three finalists for Top Producer of the Year by Top Producer Magazine. The partners were honored for their operation’s entrepreneurial originality, financial and business progress and industry or community leadership. More...ALUMNI HONORED FOR TEACHING AT NATIONAL, LOCAL LEVELSMichael Retallick (PhD ’05 agricultural education), an Iowa State University associate professor of agricultural education and studies, received the New Teacher Award at the Food and Agricultural Sciences Excellence in College and University Awards Program at the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU). He is one of two 2012 recipients honored for meritorious teaching with seven or less years of experience in higher education. Young Alum of the MonthMark Rosmann |
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Copyright © 1995 - 2013, Iowa State University of Science and Technology. All rights reserved. |