Final Exam

In the Field: Alumni making a difference through Agroecology

Katelin Holm Anderson MS’09 Katelin Anderson serves as the water quality specialist/information and education coordinator for Polk County’s Land and Water Resources Department. Much of […]

Upping Our Global Game

CALS faculty and staff already conduct important research around the world—but our new
director of International Programs, Sundaram Gunasekaran, wants the college to aim higher

Antibiotics Off the Beaten Path

CALS’ Cameron Currie and his team are looking at microbes associated with insects, plants and
marine life as potential sources for new drugs

Mali: Helping women farm

Women in many industrialized countries are all too familiar with the “second shift”—the domestic duties they still perform disproportionately (compared with their husbands) once their […]

Class Act: Growing Veggies with City Kids

Natalie Hogan, a sophomore majoring in dietetics and Spanish, hopes to practice nutrition education in schools, teaching kids about healthy foods. This past summer she […]

A Place to Belong

Student organizations at CALS offer personal growth, professional development and a fine way to create community.

Catch up with … Signe Brewster BS’12 Life Sciences Communication

Whether it’s artificial intelligence, virtual reality, robots, 3-D printing, drones or space exploration, Signe Brewster’s got it covered. Brewster puts what she learned during her […]

The Head and the Heart

At the start of a new school year and the near end of 2016, we at CALS wish to thank some people whom we really […]

The Mysteries of Mitochondria

There’s a lot we don’t know about the tiny engines that reside in nearly every living cell. But CALS biochemist David Pagliarini is shedding light on more of their functions and behavior— with important implications for human health.

Green Therapy

Redesigning landscapes to heal body and soul – drawing on CALS expertise

Five things everyone should know about … The Future of Agriculture

1 l Apps are critical to ag. Farmers use mobile technology for many things, including turning irrigation and other equipment on or off, maintaining pest […]