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Professors Sergio Lence and Dermot Hayes (and co-authors Julian M. Alston; John Stephen C. Smith) have won the ‘Outstanding ERAE Journal Article’ award for 2016.
Iowa Swine Day will be held again this year, on June 29th at the Scheman Building.
What is new this year is that faculty can attend at no cost – IF you register on or before June 17th.
Keri Jacobs, assistant professor, presented on consolidation trends in agriculture and cooperatives to Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company’s Board Council at their annual meeting in Des Moines June 8, 2017.
She was also mentioned in Farm Journal’s AgPro article, “Reasons Why Cooperatives Are Merging,” published June 12, 2017.
Mark Edelman, professor, presented to the Clean Innovation Investor Forum & Carbon XPRIZE Summit June 12-13, 2017: Wooley, John and Mark A. Edelman. "Converting CO2 to Valuable Liquid Hydrocarbons."
Dave Swenson, associate scientist, was interviewed by Art Cullen, Storm Lake Times, about the demography of outmigration from rural Iowa over the past few decades...
We have just completed our search for a new department administrator. Earlier today Ellen Anderson accepted our offer of the position.
In its first meeting on June 5, the 21-member Iowa State University Presidential Search Committee outlined the challenges the university’s 16th president will face—such as high enrollment and finances—as well as what its members want to see in the new chief.
The first regularly scheduled IRB meeting in July falls on the July 4 University Holiday. That meeting has been re-scheduled for Friday, June 30. Please note the special application submission deadline of June 15 for research projects to be reviewed at the June 30 IRB meeting.
Helen Jensen, professor, is one of 13 renowned thinkers the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has named to the executive committee of Science Breakthroughs 2030.
Alejandro Plastina, assistant professor, was elected Secretary of the North Central Farm Management Extension Committee during its Spring meeting at Kansas State University.
John Lawrence, interim V.P., extension and outreach, and Wendong Zhang, assistant professor, presented to a delegation from the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture, Agricultural Trade Promotion Center on U.S. Farm Bill May 30.
The decision tool “Iowa Cash Rents by Land Quality” on the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development's (CARD) website has been updated with 2017 data.
Iowa State's team was awarded second place in the Community Bank Case Study Competition sponsored by the Conference of State Bank Supervisors. Thirty three teams from universities across the country competed.
Alumna Nancy Kirkholm ('79 ag business), a farmer near Homer, Nebraska was the Northwest Region finalist for Monsanto’s Farm Mom of the Year Award.
Ronald Prescott, a long-time employee of the Department of Economics who passed away May 2016, will be recognized at the ISU Memorial Day ceremony Monday, May 29, 2017.
Wendong Zhang, assistant professor, was interviewed about the 90th Soil Management and Land Valuation Conference held at Scheman on May 17. He spoke with:
The Iowa State University exhibit in the Varied Industries Building at the Iowa State Fair has become a “don’t miss” destination for fairgoers. And that has been made possible by more than 140 proud and enthusiastic faculty and staff who volunteer.
The 90th annual Soil Management and Land Value Conference was held Wednesday, May 17 at the Scheman Building, and is sponsored by the ISU College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and ISU Extension and Outreach.
Quinn Weninger, professor, and Keri Jacobs, assistant professor, have been awarded a two-year grant totaling $196, 257 from the United States Department of Agriculture, National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
Kevin Kimle, senior lecturer, spoke at the Agri Tech Venture Forum May 12, 2017 in Toronto, Canada. He gave his presentation, "Ag Tech Accelerators: Evolving Models Shaping the Ecosystem."
Wendong Zhang, assistant professor, has had his paper, "Spatial Heterogeneity, Accessibility, and Zoning: An Empirical Investigation of Leapfrog Development," published in the May 2017 issue of Journal of Economic Geography.
David Swenson, associate scientist, spoke with: Patricia Cohen, New York Times, about Iowa’s tight rural labor supply and the difficulty attracting labor to its meat packing facilities and Patt Johnson, Des Moines Register, about the metro Des Moines labor supple and the difficulty attracting lower-wage workers to dining, drinking, and retail estab
A team of students from Iowa State Economics Department has been named a finalist in the nationwide 2017 Community Bank Case Study Competition.
Mark Edelman, professor and Sandra Charvat Burke, assistant scientist, presented "Extension Microfinance Partnerships for Developing Low Income Minority Women Entrepreneurs in Small Metro Neighborhoods Using Grameen Peer Group Methods" at the National Urban Extension Conference in Bloomington, MN, May 11, 2017.
Dermot Hayes, professor, is scheduled to speak at the World Pork Expo, June 7-9, 2017, at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines. Hayes will speak on U.S. exports and international trade.