Iowa College students named to Collegiate Advisory Team JOHNSTON, Iowa —Eighteen Iowa college students have been named to the second Iowa Corn Collegiate Advisory Team.
The Iowa Corn Collegiate Advisory Team (CAT) is sponsored by the Iowa Corn Growers Association and the Iowa Corn Promotion Board. The Iowa Corn CAT assists the Iowa Corn Growers Association (ICGA) and the Iowa Corn Promotion Board (ICPB) in developing programs that target and enhance Iowa Corn’s relationship with students who are pursuing careers in agricultural production and agriculture business and industries.
Participants of the newly selected team are: Adam Bierbaum, Iowa State University; Kasey Deaver, Des Moines Area Community College; Brent Drey, Iowa State University; Kyle Fischer, Iowa State University; Dalton Frana, Ellsworth Community College; Clayton Hester, Kirkwood Community College; Cale Juergensen, Iowa Lakes Community College; Jordan Lyon, Muscatine Community College; Tyler Martens, Southwest Community College; Joe Mickelson, Graceland University; Evan Sieck, Iowa State University; Shaniel Smith, Indian Hills Community College; Chanel Vorrath, Iowa Western Community College; and Tyler Woodward, Dordt College. Also chosen to return to the CAT from the inaugural team are: Alyssa Foster, Iowa State University (transferred from Kirkwood Community College); Andrew Lauver, Iowa State University; Logan Lyon, Iowa State University (transferred from Ellsworth Community College); and Steve Roose, Iowa Central Community College.
OSU professor receives award for environmental ed work RALEIGH, N.C. — Rosanne Fortner, professor emeritus of Ohio State University’s School of Environment and Natural Resources and former education director of Ohio State University Sea Grant, received the highest honor from the North American Assoc. for Environmental Education (NAAEE) at its annual conference on Oct. 15 in Raleigh, N.C.
Fortner was presented the 2011 Walter E. Jeske Award, which recognizes individual’s outstanding service to NAAEE and leadership within the environment education profession.
Fortner, currently the Great Lakes director of the Centers for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence (COSEE), has spent her career helping science educators find new, engaging ways to bring the Great Lakes into their classrooms. As part of the first project Ohio Sea Grant funded more than 30 years ago, Fortner introduced science teachers to new methods of presenting ecology topics to help students connect oceanic issues to a region they knew better — the Great Lakes. By encouraging input from science teachers, she led the development of class materials to teach about several environmental issues, including climate change science in 1993, propelling Ohio Sea Grant to the forefront of teaching the subject. Other curriculum material Fortner created helped teachers show students the connections between environmental issues and the affected stakeholders.
Even after her retirement from Ohio Sea Grant in 2005, she mentored 10 teacher fellows toward Master’s degrees for three summers at Stone Laboratory, Ohio State’s island campus on Lake Erie, where Fortner has taught courses for 27 summers.
As the director of COSEE Great Lakes, she has fostered connections between educators and scientists and she spearheaded the development of the Great Lakes Literacy Principles which provide a framework for teaching about the lakes. Fortner’s impact has been felt both within and far beyond Lake Erie and the Great Lakes region. She has given presentations in nine countries and served in Cyprus as a 1999 Fulbright Scholar. |
