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The work of Adam Sisson and Brandon Kleinke is featured in Inside Iowa State.

Monica Pennewitt attended the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Society of Nematologists and won first place in the student oral paper competition

Last month, Ph.D. Candidate, Monica Pennewitt attended the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Society of Nematologists held on The Ohio State University campus in Columbus, OH.

Dr. Melissa Bredow honored with a "Research excellence award"

Dr. Melissa Bredow, a postdoctoral researcher working under Dr. Steven Whitham, was honored with a "Research excellence award" by the ISU Graduate College.

Monica Pennewitt receives a travel award to attend the North Central Division of the American Phytopathological Society (APS) meeting and wins 1st place in the oral presentation competition!

Devin Radosevich awarded first place in the "PhD 10-minute papers" competition in the 2023 Joint North Central & Southwestern Branch meeting of the Entomological Society of America

Devin Radosevich was awarded first place in the "Ph.D. 10-minute papers" competition in the 2023 Joint North Central & Southwestern Branch meeting in Oklahoma City on April 16-19.

PPEM Spring 2023 Newsletter

The PPEM Spring 2023 Newsletter by Katie Allgaier is now available.

Alexandra Starkey placed second in the poster competition of the Graduate Student Senate's 11th Annual Conference

Aline Sartor Chicowski and Ekkachai Khwanbua were selected for the 2023 IS-MPMI Shimamoto Travel Award

March, 24 - 2023

Claudia Lemper-Manahl, Christopher Marett, Gregory Courtney and John Shriver were honored at the ISU 25 year club

Founding of the 25 Year Club

Name: Erin Healy

Hometown:  West Des Moines, Iowa

Major and Graduation Date:  Microbiology, Spring 2019

The Iowa State University Insect Zoo welcomed 169 baby tarantulas this week after being selected by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to receive the confiscated spiders.

AMES, Iowa – A new Iowa State University research project will combine traditional and high-tech uses of the sun’s power by studying how to grow crops amid an array of solar panels.

Dr. Gleason's lab research on advanced IPM options in apple production and IPM tools for organic cucurbit crops now as a podcast series

The Gleason lab’s research on advanced IPM options in apple production and IPM tools for organic cucurbit crops has been condensed into two podcast series: The Current Cucurbit, and Smart(er) Apple Spraying. With Dr.

Dr. Gleason completed a one-month research and lecture visit to the INRAE research station in Toulouse, France

Dr. Ge's research on how honey bees react to drought and extreme temperatures was featured in a summary of 200+ articles on the topic of climate change

Ge Zhang was a Ph.D. student advised by Dr. Amy Toth and Dr. Matthew O'Neal. Their manuscript, published in the Journal of Economic Entomology, was featured in a summary of 200+ articles on the topic of climate change.

Aline Sartor Chicowski selected for Corteva DELTA Symposium and grant

Aline Sartor Chicowski, a doctoral candidate in Plant Pathology with a minor in Genetics, under the supervision of Dr.

Professor W. Allen Miller has been appointed as the plant virus Editor for the Journal of Virology

Professor W. Allen Miller has been appointed as the plant virus Editor for the Journal of Virology.

Once widespread across the eastern U.S. and Upper Midwest, the number of rusty patched bumble bees has plummeted nearly 90% since the 1990s.

Volunteers, Cargill, and ISRC Come Together for Meals from the Heartland

The Iowa Soybean Research Center would like to extend a big thank you to the more than 40 volunteers who showed up to help with the Hansen Agriculture Student Learning Center to help with the Meals from the Heartland event on Friday, August 5th, a