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		<title>BATTLING PESTS WHILE PROTECTING BENEFICIAL BUGS</title>
		<link>http://www.ag.iastate.edu/stories/2012/11/3021/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:20:42 +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[Bonning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Entomology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pest Control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plants]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Ed Adcock
Entomologist Bryony Bonning finds the range of insects stunning. “They span the complete range. You’ve got the repulsive ones and the beautiful ones, the useful ones and the pests,” she says.
Classical chemical insecticides are widely used for insect pest management, but a downside to this, Bonning says, is that they kill both the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FOR BUCHELE, CREATIVITY IS THE MOTHER OF INVENTION</title>
		<link>http://www.ag.iastate.edu/stories/2012/11/for-buchele-creativity-is-the-mother-of-invention/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:20:31 +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[ag engineering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buchele]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hanna]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haverdink]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inventions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[round baler]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Barbara McBreen
At 92 Wesley Buchele continues to creatively solve problems. Along with his 23 patents, he has a website, a YouTube video, a radio blog and in 2008 co-authored a book about his childhood with his twin brother.
The book, Just Call Us Lucky, describes how a widowed mother with seven boys survived droughts, grasshopper [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SERVING COMMUNITY IN A UNITED WAY</title>
		<link>http://www.ag.iastate.edu/stories/2012/11/serving-community-in-a-united-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:20:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melea Licht</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Faculty Profiles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vol. 6 No. 2 It's All About Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colletti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kresse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Persaud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Way]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[volunteer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Barbara McBreen
If you want something done Carla Persaud is the person to ask. That may be why she was asked to join the Iowa State University United Way Campaign.
Last year Persaud won the Story County United Way Wall of Fame Award. The award recognizes a volunteer who has gone beyond the call of duty.
Jean [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VIROLOGIST VIES TO ADVANCE YIELDS AND HUMAN HEALTH</title>
		<link>http://www.ag.iastate.edu/stories/2012/11/virologist-vies-to-advance-yields-and-human-health/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:20:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melea Licht</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Faculty Profiles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vol. 6 No. 2 It's All About Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Molecular Biology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[plant pathology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Virus]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Ann Marie Edwards
W. Allen Miller is using his understanding of viruses to aid both plant and human health.
In one such project Miller, professor of plant pathology and microbiology, is working to introduce a gene into soybeans harmless to mammals, but toxic to aphids that feed on soybean plants. He collabo- rates with entomology professor Bryony [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BRINGING SCIENCE TO LIFE IN THE CLASSROOM</title>
		<link>http://www.ag.iastate.edu/stories/2012/11/bringing-science-to-life-in-the-classroom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:20:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melea Licht</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Faculty Profiles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vol. 6 No. 2 It's All About Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[animal science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boury]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Braun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[microbiology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ag.iastate.edu/stories/?p=3080</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Barbara McBreen
Microbes rule the world. That’s a fact that Nancy Boury shares with students in her Microbial World class.
“There are more microbes in one person’s gut than there are people who have ever lived on earth,” says Boury, a senior lecturer in animal science (’97 PhD molecular, cellular and developmental biology).
To make introductory micro- [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CREATING GREENER CHEMICALS WITH BIOMASS</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melea Licht</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Faculty Profiles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vol. 6 No. 2 It's All About Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Biochemistry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biomass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Biophysics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chemicals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Molecular Biology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nikolau]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Ed Adcock
The national focus on using biomass to substitute for some petroleum based products has given biochemist Basil Nikolau’s work new focus.
Since 2008 the Frances M. Craig Professor in the Roy J. Carver Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology has served as deputy director of the Center for Biorenewable Chemicals (CBiRC) based at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PREPARING FUTURE SCIENTISTS</title>
		<link>http://www.ag.iastate.edu/stories/2012/06/preparing-future-scientists/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ag.iastate.edu/stories/2012/06/preparing-future-scientists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2012 11:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melea Licht</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Faculty Profiles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vol. 6 No. 1 Student Experience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ellinwood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spring 2012]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The management and care of research animals is a necessary, behind-thescenes aspect of scientific study that animal scientist Matthew Ellinwood has made a learning experience for undergraduates.
“We take seriously the role these dogs and cats play in addressing new treatments or possibly cures for conditions that have a big, negative impact on people, especially children,” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BRIDGING CULTURES &#8211; Leading Students to Expand Knowledge and Worldview</title>
		<link>http://www.ag.iastate.edu/stories/2012/06/bridging-cultures-leading-students-to-expand-knowledge-and-worldview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 07:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melea Licht</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Faculty Profiles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vol. 6 No. 1 Student Experience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agricultural business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[learning community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Luvaga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mogler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spring 2012]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ag.iastate.edu/stories/?p=2468</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[She’d been sporting a short Afro, and then showed up in class one day with 500 shoulder length braids woven into her hair. For Ebby Luvaga, a native of Kenya, Africa, the dramatic change in hairstyle was nothing unusual. But for a classroom of Iowa State University freshman, many from small rural Iowa communities, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JUGGLING LEADERSHIP, SCHOLARSHIP AND FUN</title>
		<link>http://www.ag.iastate.edu/stories/2012/06/juggling-leadership-scholarship-and-fun/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 07:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melea Licht</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Faculty Profiles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vol. 6 No. 1 Student Experience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ambassadors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heintz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[juggling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scholarship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spring 2012]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tossing rubber chickens, stuffed pigs and numerous balls is a group activity Beth Foreman uses to illustrate teamwork and communication skills.
The activity is one of many experiential learning tools Foreman, student services specialist, uses with agricultural ambassadors. The students are college volunteers who give tours to prospective students and parents, host new student programs and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BEITZ KNOWS STUDENT ADVISING</title>
		<link>http://www.ag.iastate.edu/stories/2012/06/beitz-knows-student-advising/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ag.iastate.edu/stories/2012/06/beitz-knows-student-advising/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 07:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melea Licht</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Faculty Profiles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vol. 6 No. 1 Student Experience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[animal science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beitz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor in Agriculture and Life Sciences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kim Buhman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spring 2012]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After his first semester at the University of Illinois, freshman Don Beitz walked into his adviser’s office to register for second-semester classes. His adviser pointed a finger at him and said, “Beitz! You’re going to graduate school!”
Beitz, who described himself as a rather timid new college student, said: “What’s graduate school?” His adviser told him; [...]]]></description>
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