Hello, CALS colleagues,
Only a week until Thanksgiving break! A needed pause we all enjoy. I hope the semester has gone well, as you and your students enter the home-stretch for fall 2022.
This week we have two more candidates for the Vice President for Extension and Outreach position. Please check those out if you can. After all five candidates have visited, all of their seminar presentations will be posted for your viewing. You can send me your thoughts on the candidates, or enter them directly into the survey portal on the Provost’s webpage.
Last week we finished the week on Veterans Day – originally celebrating the WWI armistice, on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918. In 1954 it was changed to Veterans Day to honor all those who have served.
The agriculture sector continues to reel from highly pathogenic avian influenza, which, after disappearing over the summer months, has come back to Iowa now. More than 15 million birds have been lost to this disease, which seems to be changing its characteristics, not just from the last outbreak in 2015, but even between the spring and fall of this year. Ever changing nature. Let’s keep our producers in mind.
Last week I enjoyed, and learned, from our students giving poster sessions – the Global Resource Systems undergraduates and the NREM graduate students. These are always great events to attend. This week we’ll have on Tuesday evening the presentation pitches from nearly 30 teams of students who have participated in the Food Insecurity Challenge! Check it out.
Best for a great week, and let me know what you’re thinking. - Dan
Scenes from CALS
The season has changed! It seems snow is headed our way this week.
