A compelling mix of Iowa State University’s dairy science program, a historic barn west of Ogden and plain old-fashioned “Iowa nice” was all it took for the Hodges-Tinner family of Hockinson, Wash., to pick up and move to Iowa.
One hundred years of opportunities, friendship, scholarship and brotherhood gave the men of Alpha Gamma Rho many reasons to celebrate during their centennial celebration in April.
Heidi Bell is revitalizing rural Iowa one cup of coffee at a time.
A portrait of Neil E. Harl (’55 agriculture and life sciences education, PhD ’65 economics) has been installed in the Harl Commons, located in Curtiss Hall. Harl, Charles F.
Name: Lex Flagel
Title and Company: Computational Geneticist, Monsanto Company
Hometown: Fargo, North Dakota
Major and Graduation Date: ’09 PhD genetics
Name: Tyler Romoser
Title and Company: Technical Training Instructor, Case New Holland Industrial
Hometown: Keota, Iowa
Esmail Zirakparvar got off the plane in Des Moines from Iran in 1975 as a brutal blizzard gripped the Midwest. With him he had only one suitcase. It did not include a winter coat.
Whether donning an apron to create delicious confections, or safety glasses to test the inner workings of scientific instruments, Katherine Hickman’s goal is the same— to ensure quality excellence.
Laynnea Jones smiles. One of her students, a distribution employee for L’Oreal, waves his hand to claim his prize.
Katherine (Kleinwort) Hickman (‘10 food science), pictured on the left, recently joined Ames Cupcake Emporium’s Tawnya Zehr to compete in The Food Network’s bake-off show, Cupcake Wars.
Hometown: Creston, Iowa
Major and Graduation Date: Agricultural Communications, Agronomy Minor, May 2005
Heidi Vittetoe has thick skin. It has helped her protect what’s at her core—the care and commitment to her family, her animals and her state’s most vital industry.
As Antoine Alston shares his journey from North Carolina to Iowa State and back he includes African Americans’ contributions to agricultural education throughout history. It’s clear their stories are his stories, too.
If you ask Julie and Jim Christensen about their greatest accomplishment they will tell you—it’s their children’s connection to agriculture.
Chet Boruff has made a career protecting agricultural producers and consumers through regulatory affairs.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
Sarah Low was supposed to be training for the Washington D.C. Triathlon, not immobilized in a neck-to-hip brace.
