Hello, CALS colleagues,
Welcome to another great week at Iowa State! I hope you had a terrific weekend. The Cyclone gridders are 3-0 and the Cyclone CALS are doing just as well!
Recently we learned of a USDA Climate Smart project to Iowa State through Lisa Schulte Moore and team with a funding ceiling of $80 million! That’s certainly a win.
Later this week, we’ll have a partners meeting of the new Nitrogen Initiative for Iowa led by Mike Castellano and Sotirios Archontoulis that’s starting out a 10-year project with approximately $1.5 million of funding in year one. That’s another win!
Next week, we’ll have the great CALS Student Council CALS Week on campus with food, speakers and fun – and that’s always a win for us.
There is the new Iowa State University Kent Feed Mill and Grain Science Complex nearing completion, the new Stanley L. Balloun Turkey Teaching and Research Facility about to take on turkeys, and the celebration Sept. 9 of the new Department of Plant Pathology, Entomology and Microbiology! All in the “W” column!
And there is so much more, including university leading retention and graduation rates and a student services team second to none. Being on the CALS winning team is simply the best. Enjoy your work and enable our students, and watch out and take good care of each other.
Students (undergrad and grad) are being encouraged to submit abstracts for posters to be shown at 19th Annual Norman Borlaug Lectureship Poster Competition for Graduate and Undergraduate Students. The competition and display of posters will take place Monday, Oct. 17, in the Memorial Union at Iowa State, prior to the Norman Borlaug Lecture featuring 2022 World Food Prize Laureate Cynthia Rosenzweig. Abstracts are due by the end of the day Sept 26. Please encourage your students to submit!
Some “fall” pics for you to enjoy are below. Please send me your pics to include in a future Monday message!
My best - Dan
Fall scenes from CALS
A series of fall images for today include: a burr oak grove; a little white-tail filling up on campus; two beautiful flower beds on the east side of Curtiss Hall that are being maintained by Department of Horticulture students from the Landscape Club and Horticulture Club, early fall shades in the Des Moines River Valley as seen from 156-feet up on the railroad bridge on the scenic Fraser Train out of Boone; and the egg drop competition in the Curtiss Hall Rotunda, organized by Nate Dobbels and company in the Department of Agricultural Education and Studies.
