Voices of ACES

All Students Educators From the Dean Social
August 27, 2020
By Paulina Cylwik
The treasure of uncertainty
As we head into a new school year full of change, uncertainty and new opportunity, I’d like to take a moment to reflect on a summer full of personal and professional development. A summer that has taught me to embrace all of what life has to offer: Unpredictability and Unknowns.
June 30, 2020
By Rylee Sjuts
Spring 2020 College of ACES Award Winners
The College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences (ACES) is happy to announce this year’s recipients of the Hugh Morrison Scholarship, Warren K. Wessels Achievement Award, and Robert M. Harrison Leadership Awards.
May 27, 2020
By Katrina Cotten
Wildlife conservation and education
As a natural resources and environmental sciences major with a concentration in fish, wildlife, and conservation biology, I’m very interested in working with wildlife in the future.
May 19, 2020
By John Searl
Genetic diversity of corn
As an aspiring corn breeder, a topic I am aware of from both an academic and private business perspective is that of genetic diversity in corn.
May 11, 2020
By Stephanie Henry
"Fight BAC!" FSHN 101 students practice good food safety behavior at home
Before classes wrapped up, Dawn Bohn, a food science and human nutrition teaching assistant professor had a food safety week in her FSHN 101 class. With students being at home, and for extra credit, Bohn challenged her students to submit photos of themselves engaged in good food safety behaviors.
May 6, 2020
By Alyssa Ramir
The Phoenix Generation will do extraordinary things
The year 2050 is the start of a new phoenix cycle. Our civilization will reinvent itself, much like it has done in previous phoenix cycles like the downfall of the Roman Empire or the renaissance and reformation.
April 29, 2020
By Rachel McGreal
What does the “new normal” look like for students?
So, online school and quarantine is the “new normal?” Nothing about this situation is normal.
April 22, 2020
By Gregory French
The implications of COVID-19: Lessons from students studying abroad
For the entire campus community, the unprecedented and rapid rise of a global COVID-19 outbreak required sweeping adjustments and instantaneous shifts to a new normal. In this time of challenge, uncertainty, and unpredictability, students who were studying abroad over the spring 2020 semester have to display resilience and adaptability on multiple levels. 
April 22, 2020
By Hannah You
Plant domestication: Crop genetic improvement
Humans have been breeding plants since before recorded human history and have domesticated many of the plants that we rely on in our daily lives today.
April 20, 2020
By Haley Bickelhaupt
How to be your best: Productivity is still important
Throughout the chaos of the current COVID-19 pandemic, students across the country are quickly adjusting to a different lifestyle: online schooling.