Hello, CALS,
What a beautiful weekend! I hope you got out to enjoy it. And for those of you in the classroom - preparing grades may have been part of your weekend, too.
This past weekend, the Department of Statistics celebrated its 75th anniversary with a terrific gathering of faculty, staff, students and alumni. In this video, you can take a look at the department's history and outlook. Check it out! Congrats to the entire department on this milestone and all that lies ahead. Thanks to Dan Nettleton and company for making this celebration happen.
Last week, we enjoyed CALS Week, put on by our CALS Student Council. What a terrific job they did! Check out the photos and a video posted on the CALS Council's Facebook page to see what you might have missed. The help the Council receives from fellow students, as well as faculty and staff, truly do us all proud and represent all that’s best with the CALS Advantage!
This week is the ISU Foundation Governors Week, when many of the donors that support every aspect of Iowa State come to campus. They take part in business meetings of the Foundation (the governors are part of their governance structure), and celebrations of the work they do and how it enables the success of the university. Our college is deeply involved in this twice-a-year event (April and October), including, for example, significant meetings around the Center for Sustainable Rural Livelihoods program with its signature activity being the ISU-Uganda Program, and the EARTH Program with its activities on St. John U.S. Virgin Islands.
Next week will kick off the World Food Prize events and the Norman E. Borlaug International Dialogue activities, Oct. 12-20. Free registration is being offered for students to attend the events virtually. Please encourage your students to take advantage of this opportunity. More information about the speakers and workshops can be found on the event webpage.
Also happening next week, on Monday, Oct. 10, we will have our first CALS Town Hall of the academic year. It will begin at 2:15 p.m. in 2050 Agronomy Hall. Hope to see you there.
Have a great week. - Dan
Scenes from CALS
Last week, Sept. 29, we had the great opportunity to have join us in the college retired Ambassador Kenneth Quinn, who is also president emeritus of the World Food Prize Foundation. He was here to help us plan for further capacity in scholarship programs, to lecture in David Acker and Curt Youngs' class on global food security, and to meet and inspire students. A highlight was a reception in Harl Commons with the Ambassador "holding court" while firing the imaginations of students, as seen in the picture below.
Tom Brumm in agricultural and biosystems engineering shared this update on a monarch caterpillar (shared in a previously submitted image) that has now emerged from its chrysalis.
As Helen Hunt Jackson’s poem "September" says, "The golden-rod is yellow; the corn is turning brown...." Read the poem, and read up on Jackson, too!
