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Archive for: December, 2017

Congratulations To Dr. Cindy Haynes

Congratulations to Dr. Cindy Haynes, recipient of the “2018 College of Agriculture and Life Sciences “Outstanding Achievement in Teaching Award“.


Master Gardeners Work to Decrease Food Insecurity

Master Gardener volunteers donated produce grown in 15 counties as well as demonstration gardens from six Iowa State research farms as part of the Growing Together initiative.  The total donation came to 74,841 pounds of fruits and vegetables that went to more than 75 locations across the state. https://www.extension.iastate.edu/node/43999/


DR CHRIS CURREY HOSTED ISU GREENHOUSE SHORT COURSE

On November 3rd, 120 greenhouse growers came from across Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Michigan, Missouri, and Illinois for the 4th Annual Iowa State University Greenhouse Short Course.  This year’s guest speakers were Erik Runkle (Michigan State University), Rosa Raudales (University of Connecticut), and Suzanne Wainwright-Evans (Buglady Consulting).  They joined Iowa State’s Chris Currey and Mark…


ALUM OF THE MONTH: ERIN BOHLIN, LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURAL ASSISTANT / DRAFTER AT RGA LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS IN PALM DESERT, CALIFORNIA

Erin Bohlin graduated in Horticulture with an emphasis in Landscape Design in May 2015.  Erin is from Dubuque, Iowa. Erin’s major job responsibilities are to take the concepts and hand-drawings from the LAs and other Designer and plug everything into AutoCAD/LandFX to create official drawings, ranging from Conceptual to Preliminary and frequently Construction Drawings.  She…