150 Points of Pride Archive
The Iowa State University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences has a proud and distinguished history. As part of Iowa State's sesquicentennial celebration, 150 points of pride related to the College - accomplishments, discoveries, contributions, highlights, famous and interesting people - will be posted here. These postings will coincide with 150 days of the 2007-2008 academic year, beginning Aug. 20, 2007 and ending May 2, 2008, with time off for the Thanksgiving, winter and spring breaks. Check back each Monday for five new items.
- College Sets Standards for Strengthening Students' Communication Skills
- Science With Practice Internships - Students Earn Credits and a Check
- Distance Education Classes Begin in 1995
- Nonnecke Receives National Teaching Honor
- Kaleita Receives USDA Excellence in Teaching Award
- Restoring the Past
- Horticulture Program Study
- N.E. Hansen Spent 40 Years as a Plant Explorer
- ISU Turf Club
- Thomas Maney's Pomology Research Began in 1912
- Poultry science a feather in ISU's cap
- That certain something in soyfoods
- A trusted agricultural economist
- Cutting-edge work in soybean viruses
- Public investment in ag research pays off
- First VEISHEA Chair was College of Agriculture Student
- Entomology Department Features Popular Bug Web Site
- Catnip Captures Attention as a Natural Mosquito Repellent
- Monitoring Mosquitoes to Protect Iowans
- Insect Zoo Provides Hands-on Experience for Students
- Meat Science Extension Program Ranked No. 1 in the U.S.
- Animal Scientist Discovers Supplement to Save Muscle
- Judging Teams are a Winning Tradition
- First University to Build and Operate a Linear Accelerator Facility
- Swine Breeding Research Farm Opened in 1937
- Lee Kolmer
- David Topel
- Richard Ross
- Catherine Woteki
- Wendy Wintersteen
- Northeast Research and Demonstration Farm
- Northern Research and Demonstration Farm
- Armstrong Research and Demonstratin Farm and Wallace Learning Center
- McNay Memorial Research and Demonstration Farm
- Allee Mansion and ISU Allee Memorial Demonstration Farm
- First social survey of rural communities began in 1918
- Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll
- North Central Regional Center for Rural Development
- Regional Capacity Analysis Program Provides Data to Communities
- Center for Sustainable Rural Livelihoods
- Plant transformation
- Seed Science Center
- Soybean's introduction to Iowa
- Soil Survey
- Robert H. Shaw
- Charles Hall
- Nick Christians
- Study abroad program has wide appeal
- Agriculture Journalism
- Don Muhm
- John Pesek
- Raymod F. Baker
- World-class corn breeding
- $80 million gift makes history
- Popcorn anyone?
- James Olson
- Bernice Watt
- John Bremner
- Charles Black
- E.P. Sylwester
- Kenneth Frey
- Don Kirkham
- William Pierre
- BIGMAP
- New degree in seed technology and business
- A forestry first
- Paul Errington
- Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit
- Forestry Camp Tradition Continues
- A tale of two chiefs
- Lauren Soth
- Elizabeth Hoyt
- Theodore W. Schultz
- Karl Fox
- John Timmons
- Herman Knapp
- Perry Holden
- William H. Stephenson
- Nine decades of continuous corn
- Research and demonstration farms
- Finest blue cheese
- Martin Mortensen
- Verner Nielsen
- C.Y. Stephens
- James H. Hilton
- E.L. Quaife
- Lanoy Hazel
- Maurice Helser
- Leslie Johnson
- Max Rothschild
- Spencer Beach
- Louis H. Pammel
- Ada Hayden
- John Mahlstede
- Jack L. Weigle
- Leopold Center
- Dennis Keeney
- Multidisciplinary Issue Teams
- Sustainable agriculture education and service
- Spencer Award
- Agriculture Career Day
- Crop Adviser Institute
- First crop bioterrorism course
- Iowa Pork Industry Center
- PQA Plus Program
- Midwest Plan Service (MWPS)
- ISU Agricultural Endowment
- Committee for Agricultural Development (CAD)
- Iowa Crop Improvement Association (ICIA)
- Plant Introduction Station (NCRPIS)
- Agricultural engineering department
- Jay Brownlee Davidson
- E.V. Collins
- Large round hay baler invented
- Bert Benjamin
- M.S. in Agronomy
- Robert E. Buchanan
- First statistical laboratory
- George Snedecor
- National Resources Inventory
- Floyd Andre
- Agricultural Education
- Louis Thompson
- The Ag 450 Farm
- William Murray
- Henry H. Kildee
- Jay Lush
- Wise Burroughs
- Richard Willham
- Lauren Christian
- Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD)
- Earl Heady
- Stanley Johnson
- Bruce Babcock
- Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI)
- Suel Foster
- George Washington Carver
- Joseph L. Budd
- Charles Bessey
- Griffith Buck
- Henry Wallace
- Henry C. Wallace
- Henry A. Wallace
- James "Tama Jim" Wilson
- Charles F. Curtiss
- Iowa State University College of Agriculture – The Beginning
- Iowa State University Extension – The Beginning
- Ralph Bliss
- Iowa State Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station – The Beginning
- Seaman Knapp
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