To apply for undergraduate Animal Science and Dairy Science Scholarships, please click here. Prior to applying please read through the scholarship descriptions. Students have until 10pm on Monday, February 15 to apply.
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Joseph Sebranek, Ph.D., distinguished professor of animal science at Iowa State University, will receive the Harry L. Rudnick Educator’s Award in recognition of his role as an educator of future industry leaders and his extensive research, which has advanced the meat and poultry industry’s food safety and quality management systems. The North American Meat Institute will hold their inaugural annual awards ceremony on January 26 in Atlanta, Georgia where Dr. Sebranek will be presented the prestigious award. The event will be held at the Georgia World Congress Center.
The 2015 Iowa State Livestock Judging Team capped off its season by finishing 5th at the North American Livestock Exposition, held in Louisville, Kentucky. This contest serves as the National Championship for Livestock Judging and marks the 4th time in 5 years that the ISU squad finished amongst the top 5 teams in the country. This contest marks the end of the judging year and the team was also honored at the banquet with two “All American’s”: Bailey Core and Elizabeth Heaton.
The judging careers for members of the 2015 Iowa State University Meat Judging Team wrapped up at our national championship, The International, hosted by Tyson Fresh Meats at the Dakota City, NE facility. The ISU team finished in 7th place overall and earned 4th place honors in beef grading with 18 teams competing in the event.
Cayla Iske, a graduate student in the Department of Animal Science, received the Graduate College Teaching Excellence Award for the fall semester. The purpose of this award is to recognize and encourage outstanding achievement by graduate students in teaching. Cayla receives a $500 award from the department of animal science, a certificate of achievement signed by the ISU President and the Graduate Dean, a letter of commendation from the ISU President and an honor cord to be worn at graduation. Ms. Iske is studying under the supervision of Dr.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science is recognizing six Iowa Staters for their distinguished work in neuroscience, math, biochemistry, livestock genomics, physics and crop genomics. The six are part of the association's new class of fellows. - See more here!
If you are walking around campus or traveling through Kildee, Curtiss, or Lagomarcino halls take some time to congratulate these students for receiving awards from the the North American Meat Institute Scholarship Foundation. The NAMI Annual Meeting took place November 2nd - 5th in Washington, D.C. Eight students received scholarships to further their education in meat and food science, culinary arts and animal science.
Annual Chuckwagon Breakfast
The International Conference on Feed Efficiency in Swine was a great success seeing over 500 participants and hosting collegiate and industry leaders from all over the world! The event was co-hosted by Iowa State University and Kansas State University to share publicly the findings of 5 years worth of research conducted on feed efficiency. A grant provided by the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI), a component of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture which is a federal agency within the USDA, was provided to fund the work.
In 2014, 14 foals owned by Iowa State University were born during the AnS 332 Equine course. The foals have grown up on campus and interacted with students as the primary model for learning in both AnS 317A (Behavior and Training of the Weanling) and most recently AnS 317B (Behavior and Training of The Yearling).
The weekend of October 17-18, 2015, brought about a culmination of effort and learning. Students enrolled in AnS 317B attended one or both of the All American Quarter Horse Congress Sale and/or the Iowa Thoroughbred Breeders and Owners Association Fall Sale.
You may see some new faces in the Department of Animal Science as we have new faculty that have and will be joining us this year.
Dr. Rodrigo Tarte, Assistant Professor focusing on processed and value-added meats and food safety comes to us from John Morrell Food Group (Smithfield Foods) in Lisle, IL. He will be teaching ANS 270 - a Meat Science course- and focusing on research here at Iowa State University.
Four teams from Iowa competed at the AKSARBEN 4-H Livestock Quiz Bowl. Eighteen Franklin and Story county youth participated in the contest that was held in Omaha, Nebraska on September 26. Franklin County placed third in the nationwide competition. 4-H members answered questions about beef, goats, sheep and swine as well as current events facing the livestock industry. The teams were coached by Jacki Dohlman, County Youth Coordinator in Franklin County and Katlin Kahler, a junior in Animal Science from Story County.
This year the Block and Bridle team exceeded expectations by packaging 102,384 meals for those in need. On October 7, 2015, Block and Bridle, one of the largest student run organizations on campus, teamed up with Meals from the Heartland to provide meals for those in need. College of Ag and Life Sciences students, faculty, and staff as well as many members from the Block and Bridle committee took turns filling boxes with food essentials. The meals will be distributed across Iowa as well as across the rest of the world.
Iowa State University Department of Animal Science employs the best of the best! Congratulate these members of faculty and staff that recently received awards at the Iowa State Awards Ceremony.
The Department of Animal Science hosted students September 30th for the annual beef blast event. Please click here to read more!
The Dairy Judging Team has been extremely busy during the month of September with 3 contests, three weekends in a row. Please click here to read the results!
The year 2015 marks 50 years of teaching farm excellence for the department of animal science at Iowa State University. Click here to read the full story.
The Department of Animal Science at Iowa State University has enjoyed unprecedented success at the 2015 National Barrow in Austin, Minnesota. The Swine Teaching Farm started the week by earning Reserve Champion Purebred Truckload honors, Champion Crossbred Truckload honors, and Grand Champion Truckload on Monday.
ISU animal Science and veterinary researchers made possible the first-ever successful bovine embryo transfer in the Republic of Kosovo, a step that will strengthen food security and agriculture for the nation. For the complete story go to http://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2015/09/03/kosovo
Exhibitors and their families, buyers, representatives from Iowa Foundation for the Advancement of Agriculture , ISU meats judging team students and faculty attended to view the carcasses of the state fair champions. They learned about how the different species used various factors to determine the value of the carcass. Steer, heifer, lamb, hog, and goat meat cuts were available for viewing. To see the 2015 carcass and historical data, click here.
Today, August 17th, 2015 sees the launch of Iowa State University's Department of Animal Science's new website.
