Who We Are

Largest undergraduate enrollment in College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and one of largest undergraduate Animal Science programs in the United States with nearly 1000 students
Undergraduate majors in Animal Science and Dairy Science and minors in Animal Science and Meat Science
The Department has four Distinguished Professors, more than any other Department on campus, and two University Professors
There are three endowed chairs in the Department

Norman Jacobson Endowed Professorship in Dairy Nutrition
Eldred and Donna Harmon Endowed Professorship in Animal Science Excellence in Teaching and Learning

Department faculty members bring in an excess of $10 million per year in extramural funding
Faculty of 55 with expertise in animal breeding and genetics, animal nutrition, meat science, physiology, microbiology and immunobiology
Home to four centers serving animal industries – Iowa Pork Industry Center, Iowa Beef Center, Egg Industry Center and Center for Integrated Animal Genomics
Department has had seven Morrison Award winners, the most prestigious award from the American Society of Animal Science
Home to the national national undergraduate student in dairy science five of the past nine years
Involved in interdepartmental programs of Genetics; Immunobiology; Nutritional Sciences; Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology; Bioinformatics & Computational Biology; Toxicology; and Neuroscience
Graduate student enrollment of more than 90 students
Teaching and research farms for dairy, beef, equine, poultry, sheep and swine
Award winning Meat Science program
Highest ranked Animal Breeding and Genetics group in the United States and one of the top four worldwide
Routinely 30 – 40 postdoctoral students and visiting scientists are in the Department assisting with research

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