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		<title>MAKING A DIFFERENCE ONE CORNER OF THE WORLD AT A TIME</title>
		<link>http://www.ag.iastate.edu/stories/2012/11/making-a-difference-one-corner-of-the-world-at-a-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:20:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melea Licht</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vol. 6 No. 2 It's All About Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agricultural business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brannaman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Melea Reicks Licht
As a foreign service officer for the U.S. Department of State, Nancy (Barickman) Brannaman has experienced several moments during her career that have driven home the importance of her work.
One such moment came in September when the U.S. Consulate in Libya was attacked.
“I was anguished for all of the families of Americans [...]]]></description>
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		<title>REMOVING BARRIERS TO BETTER HEALTH</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melea Licht</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vol. 6 No. 2 It's All About Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biotechnology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chiropractor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Davis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genetics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Melea Reicks Licht
If it is possible to be both serene and passionate at the same time, then Anthony Davis is just that.
Davis (’97 genetics) practically glows as he describes the philosophy that drives his chiropractic practice in Ames.
“The body has a remarkable ability to heal itself from illness as long as there is nothing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>REFEREEING THE SEED INDUSTRY</title>
		<link>http://www.ag.iastate.edu/stories/2012/11/refereeing-the-seed-industry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melea Licht</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alumni Profiles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vol. 6 No. 2 It's All About Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AOSCA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boruff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[organic seed database]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Melea Reicks Licht
Chet Boruff has made a career protecting agricultural producers and consumers through regulatory affairs.
Boruff (’76 farm operations) is the chief executive officer of the Association of Official Seed Certifying Agencies (AOSCA). The organization is “like the NCAA of the seed industry,” he says.
“We govern how the seed industry plays in terms of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USING CAREER IN CONSERVATION TO PROTECT AND INSPIRE</title>
		<link>http://www.ag.iastate.edu/stories/2012/11/using-career-in-conservation-to-protect-and-inspire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 14:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melea Licht</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alumni Profiles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vol. 6 No. 2 It's All About Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ecological Society of America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ecology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[evolutionary biology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mentor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strickland]]></category>

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By Melea Reicks Licht
Working with animals was my ticket out of the rough, crime-infested streets of Chicago,” Jeramie Strickland says. “And you can quote me on that. It’s my testimony.”
He isn’t shy about relaying how his love for the outdoors and nature spared him from an uncertain future, one in which many of his peers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MEAT SCIENCE LEADS GRAD FROM ROOKIE TO THE BIG LEAGUES</title>
		<link>http://www.ag.iastate.edu/stories/2012/06/meat-science-leads-grad-from-rookie-to-the-big-leagues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2012 07:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melea Licht</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vol. 6 No. 1 Student Experience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Craig Morris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meat Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spring 2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USDA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Craig Morris always wore his St. Louis Cardinals hat. As a freshman animal science student at Iowa State in 1988, that hat made him feel at home. It also caught the eye of his meat science professor, F.C. Parrish, who would come to do the same.
Morris (’92 meat science), now the deputy administrator of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DRIVEN: ADVANCING RURAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH RESEARCH</title>
		<link>http://www.ag.iastate.edu/stories/2012/06/driven-advancing-rural-development-through-research/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2012 07:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melea Licht</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vol. 6 No. 1 Student Experience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sarah Low]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spring 2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[triathlon]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sarah Low was supposed to be training for the Washington D.C. Triathlon, not immobilized in a neck-to-hip brace.
Low (’02 public service and administration in agriculture) didn’t get to do the 2010 triathlon. The car-bike accident during her commute made sure of that. But she was able to celebrate several victories along her six-month journey to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MICKELSON TOURS FOR A HIGHER POWER</title>
		<link>http://www.ag.iastate.edu/stories/2012/06/mickelson-tours-for-a-higher-power/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ag.iastate.edu/stories/2012/06/mickelson-tours-for-a-higher-power/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 07:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melea Licht</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alumni Profiles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vol. 6 No. 1 Student Experience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spring 2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Mickelson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Steve Mickelson was three when he started singing in public. Known as “The Mickelson Five,” he, his sister and three brothers sang at funerals, church events, community events and Farm Bureau meetings around Storm Lake where his family farmed. His mother taught them show tunes, hymns and gospel music.
Today Mickelson (’82 agricultural engineering, ’84 MS, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BUILT ON TRUST &#8211; STRONG RELATIONSHIPS SUPPORT AGRICULTURAL COMMUNICATIONS</title>
		<link>http://www.ag.iastate.edu/stories/2012/06/built-on-trust-strong-relationships-support-agricultural-communications/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ag.iastate.edu/stories/2012/06/built-on-trust-strong-relationships-support-agricultural-communications/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 07:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melea Licht</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alumni Profiles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vol. 6 No. 1 Student Experience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Janine Whipps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spring 2012]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When Janine (Stewart) Whipps was a student at Iowa State, her family’s farm faced a crisis when pseudorabies struck the purebred Duroc herd.
The family worked with Iowa State to successfully transfer embryos from their best Duroc sows and implant them in disease- free sows. The result: Elite genetic lines were saved and the herd rebuilt.
Whipps [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MAKING A DREAM OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT A REALITY</title>
		<link>http://www.ag.iastate.edu/stories/2012/06/making-a-dream-of-sustainable-development-a-reality/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ag.iastate.edu/stories/2012/06/making-a-dream-of-sustainable-development-a-reality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 07:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melea Licht</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alumni Profiles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vol. 6 No. 1 Student Experience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Don Koo Lee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Korea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spring 2012]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Don Koo Lee breathed deeply and looked out into the audience of delegates to the United Nations. He leaned into the microphone and began to speak:
“The core idea is that sustainable development is feasible when both developing and developed countries assume full responsibility, share each other’s burden and collaborate,” Lee said as part of his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SERVING UP LOCAL FOODS USING OLD WORLD METHODS</title>
		<link>http://www.ag.iastate.edu/stories/2011/11/serving-up-local-foods-using-old-world-methods/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ag.iastate.edu/stories/2011/11/serving-up-local-foods-using-old-world-methods/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melea Licht</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[food science and technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rettig]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recipe for success]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Cafe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It’s just a café.”
“This type of restaurant was the fist of its kind in the Ames area,” he says. “They say the coasts are ve years ahead of us, but our ideas were right in line with what  I was seeing on the West coast at the time.”
The restaurant was designed to have  a neighborhood [...]]]></description>
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