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Animal Science Greetings from the Department of Animal Science Dear Alumni and Friends, Every year when I compile the accomplishments of the faculty, staff and students in our department I never cease to be amazed at the quality of individuals and programs that we have in Animal Science. The faculty and staff are the ones that really make a difference in the lives of students. One person who has been making a major difference in the lives of our students is Doug Kenealy. Doug will be retiring this coming June after serving as the undergraduate teaching coordinator for the department for 25 years. His leadership has helped make our undergraduate program one of the top programs at Iowa State as well as nationally. During the past six years we have set all-time enrollment records in the department culminating this fall with an enrollment of 926 students. This makes us the third largest major at Iowa State University with a similar ranking nationally among Animal Science departments. Doug’s passion and concern for students has been a major reason for the success of our teaching program. We cannot thank him enough for all that he has done for the students and the department. Read more about him in this newsletter as well as the new undergraduate teaching coordinator, Jodi Sterle. This year we also celebrated the retirement of Lloyd Anderson. Lloyd served the department for over 50 years and continued to be a favorite teacher of our students. Lloyd plans to stay busy travelling and coming into the office to work on projects. Best to Lloyd in his deserved retirement. The significant budget reductions over the past several years have prevented us from keeping up on programs as we would like. We are still working on securing the funding for the pavilion for agriculture, classes, student clubs and youth activities. Each of you can help. In this issue you will find an opportunity to “sponsor” a seat in the pavilion. There will be 1000 seats in the building and we hope to be able to put a brass plate on each seat with the name of the contributor. Will we see your name on one or more of these seats In addition, several alumni of the department have contacted me on beautifying the farms on State Avenue so they make a better impression for students and visitors. They are right on target. We are putting together a plan on how we can improve the appearance of these farms. This project will have to be funded largely outside our budget. Your help will be greatly appreciated. Doug Kenealy, the face of Animal Science for freshmen When the 2011-2012 school year winds down next spring Douglas Kenealy will also be winding down his 36-year career at Iowa State University. After receiving his doctoral degree from Iowa State in 1974, Kenealy completed his active duty with the Army and continued serving in the reserves for 10 years. He took a position as a nutritionist with a feed company but soon after, in 1975, he was summoned back to Iowa State as an emergency hire to teach nutrition. That was the beginning of a long career teaching predominately general animal science courses. Upon the retirement of Fred Foreman in 1985 Kenealy became the professor in charge of dairy science. Two years later Emmett Stevermer retired and Kenealy took on the additional role of section leader for teaching. Teaching is Kenealy’s first love and it was fulfilling for him to seize upon the opportunities to change and develop the teaching program. The biggest change he has seen has been the gender proportions and farm backgrounds of the students. In the 1970’s there were at most 25% female students and most students had a farm background. Today, 75% of the students are female and the students are predominately from non-farm backgrounds. In the 1990’s there was a complete reform of the animal science program and it became outcomes based with more focus on integrated problem solving and communication. Students have more hands-on and experimental class time. One of the most recent changes in the animal science program was the creation of a companion animal program and there are now two courses in that area. Coinciding with Kenealy’s department assignments were opportunities to take students on travel courses. In 1980 Iowa State University was the first agriculture program allowed in Post-Mao China. Two years later Kenealy took a group of students to China for a five-week course and he continues to take student groups and develop curriculum for international courses. Kenealy knows that college is more than just classroom experience and he’s seen the students that appear to enjoy the co-curricular experiences just as much as the academic part of college go on to be state and national leaders. He has enjoyed the ideal career and can’t think of anything he would have changed about it. Kenealy plans to stay involved with department through travel courses, guest lecturing and fundraising but his granddaughter Elise, living in San Diego, will start getting a bigger share of his time. He will also probably get more grease under his fingernails working on old motorcycles. This past year the department developed a strategic plan under the guidance of alumnus Rich Shuler. This will focus our programs for the next five to seven years. We appreciated Rich’s help as well as Elanco for allowing Rich to work with us. If you are in the Ames area, do stop in to see us. We always welcome visitors! Sincerely, Maynard Hogberg, Professor and Chair Doug Kenealy 2
Winter 2011 New Faculty The newest faculty member to join the department is associate professor Jodi Sterle who will become the undergraduate program coordinator upon Doug Kenealy’s retirement next spring. Sterle is a native of Michigan and not only did the farm she grew up on have the usual Midwestern products – beans, corn, wheat, hay, cattle and pigs – but it was a bit more diversified with the addition of pumpkins and Christmas trees. In fifth grade, her science teacher, Mr. Koppelman, changed the young Sterle’s life when he put an incubator in the classroom and chicks were hatched. The class studied embryonic development and Sterle’s interest in reproduction was sparked. With ten years of involvement in 4-H and showing livestock Sterle headed off to college at Michigan State with the intention of becoming a veterinarian. She spent time as an animal science undergraduate working at the sheep farm, presiding over the Block & Bridle Club for two years and recruiting for their Ag Ambassador program. Along the way she discarded the plans of becoming a veterinarian as she discovered her passion for teaching and extension and that childhood interest in reproduction was re-ignited. Faculty News In 1998, after obtaining master’s and doctorate degrees in swine reproduction from the University of Missouri, Sterle took a teaching and extension appointment as the state swine specialist with Texas A&M University. She was the only “swine person” at Texas A&M which contrasts greatly with the ISU Animal Science Department’s faculty of 20 that are involved with swine research and production. Sterle easily shows her enthusiasm for being at ISU in such a growing and thriving department. She wants to continue to enhance the teaching program by keeping the curriculum updated and relevant and maintain the program that puts ISU at the top of the list for employers, industry, and professional schools. As her predecessor did, Sterle will be teaching AnSci 114, Survey of the Animal Industry, one of the core requirement classes in animal science. She plans to develop a new course, The Art and Heritage of Livestock, which will expose students to livestock’s role in society throughout history and what it symbolizes. Students will gain a basic appreciation of the importance of livestock in cultures throughout the world. Additionally, this course integrates the growing number of students from non-traditional farm backgrounds into the department. Sterle sees the growing size of the department as a good challenge but there will be the need to use resources carefully and efficiently. She will strive to ensure that teaching is seen as equivalent in importance and value to extension and research. After a couple months of hotel living while waiting to move into their home, Jodi and her husband Steve, their sons Jake and Jackson, are thrilled to be resuming life on an acreage with their dogs, sheep and 4-H projects. “I’m excited to be at ISU in such a growing, thriving, enthusiastic department” —Jodi Sterle Retirement Lloyd Anderson has seen amazing changes since he transferred from Simpson College as a sophomore to Iowa State College in 1952, six years before it became Iowa State University. While working toward his degree in animal science he had to take time out for two years to serve in the Army and was delayed in obtaining his B.S. degree until 1957. During his junior and senior years Anderson worked for Dr. Robert Melampy in the physiology area of animal science and would subsequently follow Melampy into the role of section leader for physiology. While studying for his doctorate degree, Anderson was able to concurrently work as a research associate. Throughout his career Anderson has been studying hormone regulation and developed several surgical techniques to investigate hormone regulation in pigs and cattle. More recently he worked with his graduate student on the discovery of porosome – a structure in the plasma membrane of the cell and the site of the release of hormones to the outside of the cell. Dr. Anderson takes pride in many of his students and thinks his biggest accomplishment is seeing his students do well. Research can become dated as time passes but students can carry forth with new discoveries. All around the world, many of his 71 students and postdoctoral trainees have attained international reputations in their fields. Lloyd Anderson Although you will no longer see Anderson on his way to teaching classes he can still be found in Kildee Hall in his office and lab working on a five-year grant with John Patience. Anderson and his wife JaNelle continue to reside in Ames and they have two married sons as well as five grandchildren. 3
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