A friendly face for younger students
May 21, 2025
“Everyone remembers that friendly face in college. Be that friendly face for someone else,” says Ryan Wolf, a junior in animal science.
Student Stories
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May 21, 2025José González-Acuña knows the value of networking. Connections established while living and working in Costa Rica brought him to Iowa State University, where he’s collaborating on projects to develop new plant disease management tools and support effective fungicide use.
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May 21, 2025Abby Wing ('25 ag communication) always joked she had known she was going to Iowa State since she was born. Find out who positively impacted her time on campus and who was always around for "an awful dad joke."
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October 14, 2021Finding ways to grow local fruits and vegetables sustainably. Teaching children about agriculture, culinary science, natural resources and more. Learning to collect data to determine animal population numbers in certain locations.
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October 14, 2021Hailey Gandrup leads Dilly, a patient Arabian gelding, around the arena. Jensen, a seven-year-old rider at One Heart Equestrian Therapy, looks down beaming. He’s ready to ride.
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October 14, 2021In February 2011, a food pantry on campus, especially one run entirely by students, was a fresh idea. A group of transfer students who were passionate about food and helping their peers made the dream a reality.
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October 14, 2021Whether it’s addressing immense challenges in our global community such as food insecurity through service-learning in the ISU-Uganda program, or serving our fellow students pork-chops-on-a-stick on central campus as part of College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Week, service is engrained in the CALS student experience.
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October 14, 2021From a young age, Stefany Naranjo knew she wanted to play an active part in the fight against hunger.
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October 14, 2021By: Kathleen Delate
Growing up in Senegal, Africa, Malcolm St. Cyr witnessed first-hand how food supplies were limited in his country due to farmers’ lack of access to equipment, supplies and transportation to markets.
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October 14, 2021Hunter Crawford was enthralled with listening to his police scanner on his family’s farm in Clarinda, Iowa. He’d received it when he was eight years old from a family friend who was a paramedic.
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December 23, 2020The road to entrepreneurship requires creativity, motivation and a great network of supporters. Josh Jeske, with his innovative outlook on agriculture and enthusiasm for soil health, is working to corner the market in all of those areas.
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December 23, 2020Helping fellow students is how Janiya Stroger gives back.
Stroger, a junior in animal science, learned quickly that getting involved in clubs and organizations on campus offered her opportunities and support.
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December 23, 2020Paiton McDonald’s commitment and enthusiasm for Iowa State started before she ever set foot on campus.
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January 21, 2020Erica Baier knew her story would have a happy ending.
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January 21, 2020Trevor Hachmeister carefully holds a white-footed mouse live-trapped in the woods at Big Creek State Park. He weighs and measures the mouse before marking its belly with permanent ink – in case it’s recaptured – and releases it.
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January 21, 2020For Nick Battles a world of possibilities was revealed less than 60 miles from his suburban Indianola, Iowa, home when he participated in the World Food Prize’s Iowa Youth Institute.
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January 20, 2020In high school, Kaleb Baber wouldn’t have pictured himself studying abroad. But, after discovering his love of travel as an undergrad at Iowa State, he’s serving as an officer for an international student organization.
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July 20, 2019Image by Barb McBreen
Paulina Padrón’s journey to Iowa State started more than 2,000 miles away, in her home in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She built herself a new community at Iowa State through her service to others.
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July 20, 2019The hills were blackened. What was once a house, now a cement slab.
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July 19, 2019By: Ann Y. Robinson
Image by Barb McBreen