Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Smith-Hughes Act—and remembering the CALS ag educator who soon after its passage wrote an inspiring creed for farmers

Dr. Jacquelynn Arbuckle’s exposure to the medical field began when her younger brother Adrian was born with cystic fibrosis. Arbuckle, only six at the time, […]

1) A sloth is not a sloth. There are two types of tree sloths that diverged roughly 20 million years ago—two-toed and three-toed sloths, so […]

Meet the “designer phage,” a potential assist or alternative to antibiotics

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 […]

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

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

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 […]

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 […]

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

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 […]