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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>
		<category><![CDATA[life sciences]]></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>GOING THE DISTANCE FOR AGRICULTURE</title>
		<link>http://www.ag.iastate.edu/stories/2012/11/going-the-distance-for-agriculture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:30:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melea Licht</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Student Profiles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vol. 6 No. 2 It's All About Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agricultural business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[international agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ISU Cross Country]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Olson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Barbara McBreen
The summer of 2012 was a hot one, but that didn’t stop Bethany Olson from training for competitive cross-country.
“You have to love running—whether it’s 100 plus degrees or 21 below—you have to work out,” says Olson, a senior in agricultural business and international agriculture.
As a member of the Iowa State University Women’s Track [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DEALING WITH DROUGHT: ISU EXTENSION AND FARM SERVICES AGENCY&#8217;S RAPID RESPONSE</title>
		<link>http://www.ag.iastate.edu/stories/2012/11/dealing-with-drought-isu-extension-and-farm-services-agencys-rapid-response/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melea Licht</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Partner Profile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vol. 6 No. 2 It's All About Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Doran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drought]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FSA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kassel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nitrates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[silage testing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Willy Klein
Jim Larson, a northern Iowa beef cattle breeder, called Beth Doran in mid July with an urgent message. Larson (’69 animal science) looked to Doran, an Iowa State
University Extension and Outreach beef specialist, for answers to cattle producers’ drought-specific questions. Weeks of triple digit temperatures and little, if any, rainfall had contributed to [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Impact Section]]></category>
		<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>
		<category><![CDATA[watershed]]></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>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>
				<category><![CDATA[Faculty Profiles]]></category>
		<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>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>
				<category><![CDATA[Alumni Profiles]]></category>
		<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>
		<category><![CDATA[foreign service]]></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>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>
				<category><![CDATA[Faculty Profiles]]></category>
		<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>HELPING LIVESTOCK JUDGING AND ANIMAL RESEARCH REACH NEW HEIGHTS</title>
		<link>http://www.ag.iastate.edu/stories/2012/11/helping-livestock-judging-and-animal-research-reach-new-heights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melea Licht</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investing in Excellence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vol. 6 No. 2 It's All About Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[animal agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[animal science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Artz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[College of Veterinary Medicine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[livestock judging]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ag.iastate.edu/stories/?p=2937</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Melea Reicks Licht
Dr. Tyrone Artz, a retired orthopedic surgeon in Valley Center, Kan., never forgot the lessons he learned showing livestock in 4-H and as an undergraduate at Iowa State University.
“Showing livestock teaches responsibility and that animals deserve a high quality of life,” he says. “They should be respected and treated decently, and not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>REMOVING BARRIERS TO BETTER HEALTH</title>
		<link>http://www.ag.iastate.edu/stories/2012/11/removing-barriers-to-better-health/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:20:24 +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[biotechnology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chiropractor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Davis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genetics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ag.iastate.edu/stories/?p=3063</guid>
		<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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