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October 06, 2020

Short Circuit: How to Innovate the future of Alternative Agriculture

November 12 – 8 p.m.
Sponsored by: The Agricultural Entrepreneurship Initiative and The ISU Student Innovation Center

  • CS Liew, Owner and Managing Director, Pacific Agriscience
  • Introduction by Roger Underwood
  • Q&A moderated by Kevin Kimle
October 06, 2020

Lisa StephanyMessage from Lisa Stephany, CARES PreAward Team:

October 06, 2020

The Office of the Senior Vice President and Provost is offering several faculty development workshops in 2020-2021.

Preparing Effective Award Nominations
Oct. 8, 2020, 9:30-10:30 am, Zoom
Gain insights into the best practices of successful nominations and how to avoid the most common errors and pitfalls in your preparation.

October 05, 2020

David SwensonDavid Swenson, research scientist, has had some media contacts:

Tom Barton, Quad City Times, about the effects of climate change on agriculture and business in Iowa.

October 05, 2020

Save the date for ISCORE VIRTUAL CONFERENCE 2021

PRE-CONFERENCE: Wed., March 3, 2021
  The pre-conference is open to Iowa State faculty and staff.

FULL CONFERENCE: Thur. & Fri., March 4-5, 2021
  This comprehensive forum on issues of race and ethnicity is free and open to the Iowa State University community (students, faculty, and staff.)

October 05, 2020

Join us this fall semester as we work to accomplish our writing goals together. We will leverage peer accountability to help provide you the space to work on projects, manuscripts, curriculum, dissertations, etc. Additionally, Smile and Write is a way to connect with your peers during a time of increased remoteness. Putting these dates on your calendar and having the peer accountability is a way to carve out time for you and your career progression.

Smile and Write format:

October 05, 2020

Nieyan Cheng, Wendong ZhangNieyan Cheng, Ph.D. student, and Wendong Zhang, assistant professor, wrote a blog post for cucurbit growers on the economic efficiency of new proposed technology - mesotunnels for organic cucurbit production.
https://www.cucurbit.plantpath.iastate.edu/post/how-do-we-assess-economic-efficiency-mesotunnels-economists-take

October 02, 2020

Alan TubbsAlan “Al” Tubbs, ('66 MS ag econ) Chairman of Iowa-based Ohnward Bancshares, Inc., is this year’s recipient of the Bruning Award for his leadership and longstanding dedication to providing financial guidance and support to farmers, agricultural businesses and small communities in rural America.

October 02, 2020

Dr. Dermot HayesDermot Hayes, distinguished professor, was interviewed for an Oct. 1 KIWA Radio story, "Iowa Farmers Can Benefit From China's Demands For More Grain."

October 01, 2020

Dr. Georgeanne Artz, Dr. Peter OrazemGeorgeanne Artz (1974-2019), Peter Orazem from Iowa State University, Peter Han from U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and Younjun Kim from Southern Connecticut State University published the article “Which small towns attract start-ups and why? Twenty years of evidence from Iowa” in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics.

October 01, 2020

Dr. Mark EdelmanTwo nonprofits led by ISU Ag Business alums will collaborate with ISU's Extension and Outreach (ISUEO) Beginning Farmer Center; Farm, Food, and Enterprise Development (FFED) program, Area Farm Management staff, and Ag Ventures Alliance Co-op on a three-year $700,000 AgVets grant recently announced by USDA-NIFA. 

October 01, 2020

Dr. Wendong ZhangWendong Zhang, assistant professor, was quoted in a Sept. 30 Star Tribune story, "Farmland prices holding steady, maybe even ticking upward in Minnesota."

October 01, 2020

Dr. Chad HartChad Hart, professor, was quoted in an Oct. 1 Des Moines Register story, "Hit by too much rain, then drought, a derecho and the pandemic, Iowa farmers roll into a harvest unlike any before."

October 01, 2020

A letter from President Wintersteen, Associate Vice President for Student Health and Wellness Erin Baldwin and Public Health Coordinator Kristen Obbink outlined how the university would respond to updated quarantine guidance from the state.

October 01, 2020

MFAInformation Technology Services (ITS) is encouraging all students to activate multifactor authentication (MFA), the two-step login system that better protects their ISU accounts. Starting October 31, MFA will be required for all students; those who have not activated by that date will be required activate MFA before gaining access to their ISU accounts.

September 29, 2020

Green DotA green dot represents any moment, big or small, that either directly or indirectly helps reduce the prevalence of violence on campus.

September 28, 2020

Jackson KimleJackson Kimle ('16 ag business) is president and founder of Midland Co., a new sustainable, environmentally friendly seafood company in Story City, Iowa.

September 25, 2020

Dr. Keri JacobsKeri Jacobs, associate professor, was interviewed for a Sept. 24 Pork story, "ISU Researchers to Investigate Ag Supply Chain Resiliency."

September 25, 2020

Dr. Keri JacobsA new grant will allow Iowa State University researchers to study how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the U.S. food supply chain with the goal of finding short- and long-term solutions to increase resiliency against future disruptions.

September 24, 2020

Genevieve SignoretAlumna Genevieve Signoret ('99 M.S. Econ) was the guest speaker at the Econ Club's Sept. 23 virtual meeting.

September 24, 2020

Dr. Wayne FullerDistinguished Professor Emeritus Wayne Fuller was named 2020 Citation Laureates for Economics.

September 22, 2020

Dr. Chad HartChad Hart, professor, was interviewed for a Sept. 18 Radio Iowa story, "Creighton economist says Iowa’s unemployment rate ‘undervalued.’"

September 21, 2020

David SwensonDavid Swenson, research scientist, was interviewed for a Sept. 19 Telegraph Herald story, "Gas sales plummet by 10.6% during pandemic, may impact future infrastructure projects."

September 21, 2020

Dr. Wendong ZhangWendong Zhang, assistant professor, presented via zoom on U.S.-China agricultural trade at the first Alumni webinar for Illinois Agricultural Leadership Foundation on Sept. 17, 2020.

Zhang also made a (masked) in-person "Meet the Professor" presentation at the September meeting of the Agricultural Business Club.

September 21, 2020

Dr. Dermot Hayes, Dr. Wendong ZhangDermot Hayes, professor, and Wendong Zhang, assistant professor, have a new publication at the American Journal of Agricultural Economics https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ajae.12137

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