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The American Society of Animal Science and the Canadian Society of Animal Science joined forces this year to hold their annual meeting and trade show together in Baltimore, Maryland!  The meeting's focus was Animal Science and Technology:  Ensuring Food Security.  

Iowa State University faculty and students took home some awards and scholarships. Below are those who were awarded:

Last week, ISU's Department of Animal Science's Animal Breeding and Genetics section, hosted a short course in Kildee Hall titled:  Introduction to Graphical Models with Application to Quantitative Genetics and Genomics.  There were close to 75 in attendance and attendees traveled from all over the world to attend.  Twenty-seven countries were represented from 4 different continents.

The Reciprocal Meat Conference kicked off yesterday at Texas A&M with Iowa State University taking home a win in the 2017 Undergraduate Quiz Bowl Competition.  The team was one of 33 that competed in this year’s contest.  Team members include Michaella Fevold, Tara Simon, Carl Frame, Natalie Hanson and coaches were graduate students Danika Miller and Brian Patterson.  

Dr. Jennifer Bundy became an Assistant Professor for the Department of Animal Science on June 1, 2017.   Dr. Bundy has a 80% teaching, advising and student services appointment and a 20% scholarship of teaching and learning.  She teaches or co-teaches several Animal Science courses:   

The Jeff and Deb Hansen Agriculture Student Learning Center will be alive with kids this week.  The livestock judging camp will take place June 12th-14th and is geared towards 4-H and FFA members enrolled in grades 7-12.  Participants will stay in the ISU dorms and the livestock judging team (coached by Dr. Chris Cassady) will provide supervision. Beef, sheep and swine will come from the teaching farm.  

According the International Dairy Foods Association, National Dairy Month started out as National Milk Month in 1937 as a way to promote drinking milk. It was initially created to stabilize the dairy demand when production was at a surplus, but has now developed into an annual tradition that celebrates the contributions the dairy industry has made to the world After the National Dairy Council stepped in to promote the cause, the name soon changed to "Dairy Month."

The Cyclone Country Kennel Club (CCKC) Dog Agility Trials took place at the Jeff and Deb Hansen Agriculture Student Learning Center over the weekend. The Cyclone Country Kennel Club was originated to provide classes and services with the quality and standards maintained by the American Kennel Club (AKC) and its licensed or member clubs throughout the United States.

Offices will be closed across campus in observance of Memorial Day however the ISU Retirees Association will keep the campus busy with a Memorial Day ceremony.  The ceremony will be held at the ISU Alumni Center on 420 Beach Avenue. It begins at 9:00am in the Reiman Ballroom.  To see a schedule of events, click here.