Hello CALS,
Greetings at the start of a very busy week on campus! Be sure to stop by the CALS Week activities going on this week and support this wonderful event organized by the CALS Student Council. More details about this annual celebration of our college can be found in today's CALS Online.
In addition to all the usual energy and activity around teaching (week six!), research and Extension/outreach – this is also Governor’s Week for the ISU Foundation.
Each year in the fall and again in the spring is a week-long event that brings to campus the volunteer leadership of the ISU Foundation, and many of the donors and partners that provide us all an extraordinary margin-of-excellence for ISU and CALS! This is the enterprise that our very own CALS Development team works within to consistently raise ~$30 million every year (and that number is going up!). So with this note, I want to publicly thank Sarah Roelfs, Bobbi Smith, Nick Van Berkum, Brandon Mumm, Carol Elliott, Kelsey Bargloff and Kate-Brileigh Sears!
Please enjoy the snippet and picture below, and please think about sending some of your own pics for this weekly newsletter, and writing an approximately 100 word good-news snippet to share!
Thanks and all the best for a great week. - Dan
CALS Snippet Story
By Matt O'Neal, professor in entomology
150 years of beekeeping at Iowa State University: Iowa State’s beekeeping extension specialist Randall Cass is marking a remarkable anniversary at Iowa State. It all began with the donation of a Langstroth bee hive to Iowa State College in 1871 for the purposes of teaching beekeeping. Since then, Amy Toth, professor in ecology, evolution and organismal biology, and Randall have kept this unique form of agriculture going at Iowa State by offering a beekeeping course to undergraduates. Students experience hands-on activities like harvesting honey during the fall semester. Randall will recount the history of beekeeping at Iowa State in a seminar to the entomology department on Monday, Sept. 27, from 4:10-5 p.m. in 220 Science Hall II. The seminar is open to the public.
Nature in Focus
The beauty of the Loess Hills can be seen near the Western Research and Demonstration Farm near Castana, Iowa.
Please keep sharing your photos with me via email!
