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	<title>STORIES in Agriculture and Life Sciences &#187; Impact Section</title>
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		<title>BEYOND ROCKET SCIENCE: SEEKING SOLUTIONS TO COMPLEX, GLOBAL CHALLENGES THROUGH LIFE SCIENCE RESEARCH</title>
		<link>http://www.ag.iastate.edu/stories/2012/11/beyond-rocket-science-seeking-solutions-to-complex-global-challenges-through-life-science-research/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:35:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melea Licht</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Impact Section]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vol. 6 No. 2 It's All About Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colletti]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Joe Colletti
There’s no doubt we face complex, global challenges in food, environment, bioenergy and human health and nutrition. Solutions will rely on new ways of thinking, new technology and analytics, new partnerships and new transdisciplinary teams.
It’s not rocket science, folks. It’s more complex than that. Solutions must be economically viable, environmentally sound, socially acceptable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RESTORATION PRODUCES RIPPLE EFFECT AT CLEAR LAKE</title>
		<link>http://www.ag.iastate.edu/stories/2012/11/restoration-produces-ripple-effect-at-clear-lake/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:20:55 +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[ecology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[limnologist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[organismal biology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[restoration]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ed Adcock
Clear Lake is getting closer to living up to its name after a restoration plan created by limnologist John Downing and his Iowa State team.
It began with a two-year study he compares with a medical diagnosis.
“We basically took that lake and the watershed apart and determined what wasn’t working right and then helped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NATURE&#8217;S PROMISCUOUS REVISERS: TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS</title>
		<link>http://www.ag.iastate.edu/stories/2012/11/natures-promiscuous-revisers-transposable-elements/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:20:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melea Licht</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Impact Section]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vol. 6 No. 2 It's All About Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genome]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peterson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[plant breeding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transposable elements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transposons]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Meg Gordon
Thomas Peterson, a leader in transposon biology, does fundamental research that pulls him deep into the swoops, swishes and switches of the corn plant genome.
Sixty-four years ago transposable elements were discovered in maize. Thirty years ago a Nobel Prize was awarded to the scientist who found them. Three years ago, the maize genome [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SCIENTISTS DISCOVER HOW NEMATODES ATTACK</title>
		<link>http://www.ag.iastate.edu/stories/2012/11/scientists-discover-how-nematodes-attack/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melea Licht</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Impact Section]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vol. 6 No. 2 It's All About Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agricultural biotechnology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nematodes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[plant pathology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Ed Adcock
Soybean cyst nematodes have been found in fields in every Iowa county. The plant-parasitic microscopic roundworms cause an estimated loss of $1 billion dollars annually to U.S. soybean producers.
The pests get their name from the shell-like cysts, each containing hundreds of eggs, that persist in the soil until a susceptible plant is within [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BBMB FACULTY FOCUS</title>
		<link>http://www.ag.iastate.edu/stories/2012/11/bbmb-faculty-focus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 15:08:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melea Licht</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Impact Section]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vol. 6 No. 2 It's All About Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BBMB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Biochemistry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Biophysics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bobik]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gunning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life sciences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Molecular Biology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nelson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zabotina]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
 
Thomas Bobik, professor
On the culture of BBMB
“We have a great culture of cooperation that allows us to solve problems based on our collective interdisciplinary knowledge, which is crucial for modern science.”
On his current research
“We are genetically engineering E. coli for production of renewable chemicals. We also are trying to define the architectural and functional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ZEBRA FISH OFFER CLEAR VIEW OF LIFE-SAVING KNOWLEDGE</title>
		<link>http://www.ag.iastate.edu/stories/2012/11/zebra-fish-offer-clear-view-of-life-saving-knowledge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 14:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melea Licht</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Impact Section]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vol. 6 No. 2 It's All About Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cell biology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DNA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[embryos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TALENs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[zebrafish]]></category>

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By Virginia Zantow
Zebrafish are tiny vertebrates, but if you ask Jeffrey Essner, their significance to genetics research and cancer research is huge.
Essner is an associate professor in genetics, development and cell biology. He says the idea that he can improve human health—especially the idea that he can make a difference to cancer patients—motivates him in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Student Experience</title>
		<link>http://www.ag.iastate.edu/stories/2012/06/the-student-experience/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2012 14:11:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melea Licht</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Impact Section]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vol. 6 No. 1 Student Experience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beirbaum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reiter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spring 2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Student Experience]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Student Experience Issue features one of two special edition covers, each featuring a different CALS student. Both active in college activities and CALS Ambassadors, Adam Bierbaum (‘12 agronomy) and Kayla Reiter, senior in agricultural business, help illustrate the different aspects of today’s student experience.

Much to cheer about!
Fall 2011 enrollment in agriculture and life sciences [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CHARTING THE COURSE FOR ACADEMIC SUCCESS</title>
		<link>http://www.ag.iastate.edu/stories/2012/06/charting-the-course-for-academic-success/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ag.iastate.edu/stories/2012/06/charting-the-course-for-academic-success/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2012 12:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melea Licht</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Impact Section]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vol. 6 No. 1 Student Experience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[retallick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spring 2012]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mike Retallick’s door is always open. The assistant professor of agricultural and life sciences education and studies advises more than 80 students annually, in addition to his research and teaching responsibilities. Any number of his advisees could drop by in a given day. And they do.
Retallick (’05 PhD agriculture and life sciences education) is one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>COMPETITIVE SPIRIT &#8211; CALS TEAMS BRACKET NATIONAL SUCCESS</title>
		<link>http://www.ag.iastate.edu/stories/2012/06/competitive-spirit-cals-teams-bracket-national-success/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ag.iastate.edu/stories/2012/06/competitive-spirit-cals-teams-bracket-national-success/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 07:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melea Licht</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Impact Section]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vol. 6 No. 1 Student Experience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dairy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[judging teams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[livestock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[meats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[soils]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spring 2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[turf bowl]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Crops Team
The ISU crops team helps prepare students for a career as agronomists by teaching them skills such as plant, insect and disease identification as well as problem solving. Each year the team competes against other four-year universities at the North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture (NACTA ) contest which is held at various [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VOICES: DEFINING THE CALS EXPERIENCE</title>
		<link>http://www.ag.iastate.edu/stories/2012/06/voices-defining-the-cals-experience/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ag.iastate.edu/stories/2012/06/voices-defining-the-cals-experience/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 07:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melea Licht</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Impact Section]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vol. 6 No. 1 Student Experience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[polito]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spring 2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[student services]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The student experience in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences connects what happens inside and outside the classroom. The two are mutually supportive and synergistic.
Students’ out-of-classroom activities are as instilled in the college’s culture as the land-grant philosophy. Even Iowa State’s motto, “Science with Practice,” reflects how our students take what they’ve learned in [...]]]></description>
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