Megan Clark Student Highlight
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Study USA
Fertilizer Study USA Trip: Cooperatives and Supply Chain
This domestic 鈥淪tudy-USA鈥� trip will follow fertilizer as it travels through the supply chain, starting from the source, through points of value-added processing, and to local cooperative applicators.
Art in Bloom: Exploring the Philadelphia Flower Show
3 credits of Hort 4970X (Spring 2025)
Program dates and itinerary are subject to change.
In "Art in Bloom: Exploring the Philadelphia Flower Show," students will embark on a hands-on journey through the world of floral design as an expressive art form. This immersive course combines classroom learning with field trips to the renowned Philadelphia Flower Show and Longwood Gardens.
Comparing Food Systems - Iowa vs California - May 2025
Program itinerary is tentative and subject to change.
This course will review food systems frameworks and considerations, focusing on food supply chains (production systems, distribution, processing, and retail/markets). Discussion topics will include influences such as natural resources (water),聽innovation and technology, demographics (labor), and聽economics (price of food).聽
The pre-departure course will include tours of Iowa food production to assist in comparing and contrasting regional food systems in Iowa and California.
For the Love of Food and Puerto Rico - May 2025
3 credits of FSHN 4960B (Spring 2025)
Program dates and itinerary are subject to change.
Exploring the Marine and Terrestrial Biodiversity of the US Virgin Islands - Winter Break
2 credits of Globe 4960B (Spring 2025)
Sociology 2340 Conservation Ethics & Values - August 2025
Program dates are tentative and subject to change.
ISU students get in-person look at in-flux soybean supply chains
AMES, Iowa 鈥� Many Iowa State University students studying agribusiness have seen a harvest hauled to market. Far fewer have witnessed what happens next.
鈥淓ven if you鈥檙e familiar with the business side of farming, it鈥檚 not apparent where crops go. You dump a load at the local co-op elevator, and it鈥檚 just gone. But it鈥檚 not just marketing. Grain physically needs to go somewhere,鈥� said Bobby Martens, associate professor of economics and the Iowa Institute of Cooperatives Endowed Economics Professor.
A group of Iowa State students recently got a firsthand look at the path soybeans can take after they leave the elevator as part of an experiential course studying agricultural supply chains, a class centered in its inaugural year around a weeklong trip that stretched from processing and fuel plants in Iowa and Minnesota to ports in the Pacific Northwest.
Into the woods: Ethics class immerses students in conservation
When you think about taking an ethics class, how do you picture it? Are you in the middle of the woods, sitting around a campfire, discussing the writings of environmental authors like Wallace Stegner or Sigurd Olsen? In Shawn Dorius鈥� SOC 234: Conservation Ethics & Values class, that鈥檚 exactly what your classroom looks like.
During the two-week summer session, students get an up close and personal view of the history of conservation in America and contrast conservation in the Midwest and Mountain West. Using the as a home base, students in this Study USA field course travel all over the state of Montana and the surrounding region.
Iowa vs. California: Students explore two states' food systems
How do food systems in Iowa and California compare to each other? A group of students explored the answer to that question earlier this summer during a Study USA trip to California.
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