Three professors in the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering (ABE) are 2018 university award recipients. Manjit Misra, Director of the Seed Science Center and professor in the ABE department, received the International Service Award. This award recognizes a faculty member for outstanding international service in teaching, research, or administration within the United States or …Continue reading “ABE professors receive university awards”
In honor of Women’s History Month, the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering highlights the women faculty who contribute to the success of research and teaching in ABE at Iowa State University. These women demonstrate leadership and innovation in the classroom and laboratories and working with students, faculty, and industrial partners. Amy Kaleita Associate Professor …Continue reading “Highlighting the Women of ABE”
Iowa State University is a partner institution in a new, $104 million research center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. Led by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the project will study the next generation of plant-based, sustainable, cost-effective biofuels and bioproducts. Iowa State team includes Andy Van Loocke, assistant professor of agronomy; and Adina …Continue reading “Iowa State named a partner in new Department of Energy bioenergy research center”
An interdisciplinary team of researchers at Iowa State University has received a nearly $1 million grant to study antimicrobial resistance in animal production systems. The three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture will allow ISU researchers, along with personnel at USDA and Grinnell College, to advance the technological tools …Continue reading “Iowa State University researchers receive $1 million grant to study antimicrobial resistance in animal production”
Adina Howe was a postdoctoral fellow at Michigan State University with C. Titus Brown (now Associate Professor of Genetics at the University of California, Davis) when she found herself trying to assemble bacterial genomes from metagenomics data sets so large—nearly 400 billion bases worth—that the assembler software couldn’t keep up. “They would require hundreds of …Continue reading “Howe: Making sense of big data”
New agricultural and biosystems engineering assistant professor studies microbiology and the influence of global change on the environment. Adina Howe evaluates her success in two ways: through the impact her work has on society and through her students’ achievements. “It’s more than my personal accomplishments. As a professor, it’s exciting that I can motivate students …Continue reading “The impacts of the invisible: how microbes affect our lives”
