Elizabeth Martinez-Podolsky believes you need to give of yourself to learn about others.
She does a lot of giving in her role as the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences multicultural liaison officer (MLO).
Iowa State’s Shade Tree Short Course got its start 60 years ago in former forestry professor Sande McNabb’s living room. The meeting was created to discuss Dutch elm disease, which was killing the popular trees across the country.
Every Tuesday night Carol Cornelious, a seed analyst in agronomy, shows up at the local Panera restaurant after it has closed.
Returning a small part of Iowa farmland to prairie is bringing a huge number of benefits according to Iowa State University research.
Cathy Kling’s passion for environmental issues has been engrained since she was a Girl Scout camping, hiking and enjoying the outdoors. But, her early exposure to economics didn’t go quite as well.
2015 was declared the International Year of Soils by the United Nations General Assembly to increase public awareness and understanding of soil.
A recently announced goal to reduce U.S. carbon emissions by 30 percent by the year 2030 may help to open new markets for Iowa biomass derived from perennial grasses.
“Whether it’s project management or research data,” Abendroth says, “that’s how my mind works.”
A full to-do list greeted Don Beermann when he started as animal science department chair in January. It was a bit different than his to-do list while a student at Iowa State some 40 years before.
Now an artist himself, the Iowa State College of Design grad enjoys creating large pop art using spra
The Irish economy was tanking.
Max Morris was named chair of the Department of Statistics in November, making it the second Iowa State department he has led. He got practice serving as interim chair of industrial management systems engineering.
Service to others is a mantra Matt Wenger takes seriously. A self-proclaimed “life-long 4-H’er,” Wenger has implemented the skills learned in his youth as an instrumental volunteer to multiple organizations.
Inch-long zebrafish are used as a model organism by several Iowa State researchers.
Some people are born to teach.
Seasoned professors like Maynard Hogberg can spot them. Hogberg, chair of animal science at Iowa State, says he knew immediately Jodi Sterle was one of those people.
Front porches welcome and connect – indoors to outdoors, neighbor to neighbor, individuals to communities. They can be the place where futures are imagined and planned, and burdens made lighter by sharing.
Thomas Isenhart believes Iowa is at a turning point for water quality, a true watershed moment.
While it’s small in size, the emerald ash borer is bringing huge changes to the Iowa landscape. The tiny beetle larvae leave tunnels as they eat their way through an infested tree.
The numbers are impressive. Approximately 14 million turkeys will be processed in Iowa in 2014, and 11 million of these birds will be grown in state. This helps drive the
Leaders from across Iowa, including College of Agriculture and Life Sciences faculty and staff discuss research and efforts to thwart hunger each October at the annual Iowa Hunger Summit.
