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Dr. Helen Jensen, head of Food Nutrition Policy at CARD recently discussed food deserts—areas where residents have limited or no immediate access to healthy foods—on Iowa Public Radio’s River to River. ...read more
An ICTSD study says farm bill could hurt US trading partners under the right circumstances ...read more
An article written by two CARD researchers, David Hennessey and Helen Jensen, along with Fengxia Dong at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will be highlighted on the Journal of Dairy Science website for the next month. ...read more
ISU professor of economics Bruce Babcock spoke with Iowa Public Radio’s Talk of Iowa host Charity Nebbe about this year’s farm bill, or rather the lack thereof, on Tuesday, Oct. 9. ...read more
ISU professor of economics Helen Jensen was interviewed on Iowa Public Radio’s Talk of Iowa on Monday, Oct. 1, 2012, about the implementation of new school lunch and breakfast policies. Jensen has long focused her research on food and nutrition policies, which have become a national hot topic as the government looks to offer healthier foods to children at school. ...read more
Catherine Kling will join researchers from six other US universities in developing a sustainability study framework that will help the National Science Foundation (NSF) understand and predict processes and places in the landscape that are most vulnerable to change. ...read more
The prestigious Bruce Gardner Memorial Prize for Applied Policy Analysis will be awarded to three Iowa State Department of Economics faculty for their work on water quality preservation and restoration at the upcoming Agriculture & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) annual meeting. ...read more
The relentless heat and lack of rain may not feel like a joke in Iowa, but that didn’t stop Colbert Report host Stephen Colbert from making light of the situation when he spoke with ISU’s Bruce Babcock on Tuesday, July 24th. ...read more
AMES, Iowa - The National Science Foundation has awarded a $20 million, five-year grant to build Iowa's research capacity in renewable energy and energy efficiency. ...read more