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US-China Agricultural Trade under Phase-One Trade Deal and COVID-19
Jun. 22, 2020
https://youtu.be/D7YG0SWjVJw Dr. Wendong Zhang is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at Iowa State University since August 2015. Dr. Zhang is also affiliated with Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD). He leads the annual Iowa Land Value Survey, the Iowa Farmland Ownership and Tenure Survey, and also co-founded the new ISU China Ag center jointly with Dr. Dermot Hayes in collaboration with Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Dr. Zhang received his Ph.D. in Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics from the Ohio State University in July 2015, and he also hold a BSc in Environmental Science from Fudan University in China. |
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Jun. 29, 2020
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District Goals
Jul. 06, 2020
DG Dakin will announce his plans for the upcoming Rotary year and discuss his goals for the District.
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Selected Infectious Diseases of Swine that Threaten Global Food Security and Public Health
Jul. 13, 2020
Jim Roth is a Distinguished Professor in the College of Veterinary Medicine at Iowa State University and a member of the National Academy of Medicine. He received the DVM (1975) and PhD (1981) degrees from ISU. He is the Director of the Center for Food Security and Public Health. Dr. Roth’s primary area of research expertise is immunity to infectious diseases of food producing animals. He has testified before Congressional committees on biosecurity preparedness, on efforts to address bioterrorism and agroterrorism, and on the need for vaccines for foreign animal diseases. |
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Policing Mental Health
Jul. 20, 2020
Dr. Earl Kelly will speak about the mental health crisis and police on the front lines. |
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Jul. 27, 2020
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Start Climate Change Mitigation with Clean Energy Innovations
Aug. 03, 2020
Renewable energy sources like solar and wind must play a dominant role in the future, but must have major National investment in research and transmission infrastructure (grid expansion), along with a carbon tax incentive to become reality. The US should sign the Paris Climate Accord and initiate a strong National effort to comply with the greenhouse gas reduction objectives that are set forth in this important worldwide agreement. Citizen environmental conservation efforts should be encouraged across our land and all (new or existing) coal-fired power plants should incorporate provisions that are being developed for CO2 capture. Natural gas power plants should be refitted to burn renewable bio-mass natural gas or hydrogen, when needed research is completed. With the advantages of advanced materials research, new nuclear power plants should be built to provide dispatchable, carbon-free power with high efficiency and safety, but waste fuel reprocessing and storage sites must be built or opened, as soon as possible. Go out and buy a hybrid car or, better yet, a new bike, today!
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Germany
Aug. 17, 2020
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ISU Fall Update
Aug. 24, 2020
ISU Fall Update: ISU and Ames welcomes the Students back to campus. President Wintersteen and Vice President of Extension and Outreac, John Lawrence, will talk about welcoming the students back to the community and what precautions are being taken. |
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Self Help
Aug. 31, 2020
Nora Tobin is a Rotary Scholar. She founded Self Help International, located in Waverly, Iowa assisting women at risk in Ghana and Nicaragua to help the families become economically independent and for girls to attend school. Nora is an example of one of our Rotary Scholars who has continued on living the motto Service Above |
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The Rotary Foundation
Sep. 14, 2020
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Rotary Global Scholar
Sep. 21, 2020
"I am currently in the second semester of my graduate program and working toward a Master of Science (MSc) in International Relations, with a focus in Peace and Conflict, at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in London, England. ...
Thank you to Rotary District 6000, to Rotary E-Club of London Centenary District 1130 (my host club in London), and to all Rotarians around the world for the work you do to improve your communities every day."
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Bold Goals 2025
Sep. 28, 2020
Anneke Mundel has been the Community Impact Director at United Way of Story County since August 2019. Prior to that, she worked in the educational field for nearly 20 years, including a decade as the program coordinator of DMACC Ames' Adult Education and Literacy Program and four years with a tribal family literacy program in California. She has a MA in Native American Studies from UC Davis and a MA in Teaching from Drake University. She is a mother of two and an active Ames community member. |
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Opportunities and Challenges in the Peruvian Amazon in the time of Covid
Oct. 05, 2020
Devon Graham is a tropical biologist who works primarily in the Peruvian Amazon with Project Amazonas, a Peruvian-American non-profit organization dedicated to conservation, sustainable development, and the improvement of human and environmental health in rural areas of the rainforest state of Loreto, Peru. After completing a masters degree in marine biology in Washington State, he went on to complete a PhD in tropical ecology at the University of Miami, doing his field work in Costa Rica. It was as he was finishing his dissertation, that he visited the Amazon for the first time in 1994 and got hooked. Graham’s interests include sustainable development, conservation, botany, agriculture and gardening, public health and tropical medicine, ichthyology, ornithology, herpetology, languages and biogeography. He taught Everglades and Amazon field courses for Florida International University for 20 years, and has led or co-led student courses and faculty seminars for the National Collegiate Honors Council and the Organization for Tropical Studies, as well as hosting numerous academic groups in the Peruvian Amazon. He is an avid traveler and has lived and/or worked in the USA, Canada, Switzerland, Rwanda, Kenya, Niger, Costa Rica and Peru, where pre-covid, he was spending about 6 months out of each year. |
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Brown Bag Tailgate at the Ames Miracle Park
Oct. 19, 2020
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Oct. 24, 2020
World Polio Day is a time for Rotarians and Rotaractors across the globe to raise awareness about our work to eradicate polio for good. If we stay committed to making progress, polio will be the second human disease ever to be eradicated. |
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The Jack Trice Story
Oct. 26, 2020
Steven L. Jones is the author of of "Football's Fallen Hero: The Jack Trice Story" and a Jack Trice biographer and historian. |
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Dean, College of Human Sciences
Nov. 02, 2020
Laura Dunn Jolly has served as dean and Dean’s Chair of the College of Human Sciences at Iowa State University since July 5, 2016. She is working with faculty, staff, and alumni to help the College of Human Sciences reach new heights and equip students with skills and cultural literacy necessary to improve the human condition. The College of Human Sciences includes the departments of apparel, events and hospitality management; food science and human nutrition; human development and family studies; kinesiology; and the School of Education. The college serves Iowans in all 99 counties through Human Sciences Extension and Outreach, and operates several clinics and research centers, as well as a Child Development Laboratory School on the Iowa State campus. |
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Polio and the Iron Lung
Nov. 09, 2020 1:00 p.m.
Paul Alexander contracted Polio at the age of six and was paralyzed for life. He is now 74 years old and one of only a handful still living in an iron lung. Here is the YouTube link for the Rotary Club of Ames YouTube channel: Paul learned to breathe on his own for short periods of time (by gulping air), which allowed him to attend college at SMU and then law school at the University of Texas. He was an attorney for 35 years before he retired. Paul learned about Rotary and it's promise to eradicate Polio worldwide late in the game. He is a member of an E-Club which allows him to attend club meetings.
Paul has written a book titled "Three Minutes for a Dog" which is available on Amazon or an E-book is $4.99. He is in the process of writing a second book.
Please note that Paul has to speak on the exhale. He also bit his tongue a few days ago and is dealing with a swollen tongue, so it is difficult to understand him at times.
He would like to thank all who attended today to hear his story. We Thank Paul for his talk and Kent Frankenfeld for arranging this program focused on Polio for Rotary Foundation month.
If you would like to read more about Paul, here are a few recent articles:
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Past, Present and Future Global Grants
Nov. 23, 2020
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Cultivating Hope Farms
Nov. 30, 2020
Our mission is to grow and support the health and well-being of persons with different abilities through care farming practices. We will cultivate growth through the planting of knowledge and skills that are transferrable to everyday life through the incorporation of animals, agriculture, and recreation. Our familycentered program will provide a unique learning environment for participants to work on their individual goals and guide them towards a successful future. |
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ISU Memorial Union Workspace
Dec. 07, 2020
Nestled down a winding staircase in the basement of the ISU Memorial Union is the Workspace, which offers arts and crafts to the public. Letitia Kenemer has served as the Workspace’s coordinator for the past 18 years. Its biannual Art Mart sale started Nov. 18. Letitia Kenemer is the art lady at the Memorial Union, managing the exhibits, permanent art collection and the Workspace art studios. She plans art events from classes and workshops to walk-in crafts, and now, due to the pandemic, Art-2-Go Kits. Through the MU she has introduced programming that bring awareness to and celebrates LGBTQIA+, survivors of human trafficking, under-represented groups, and women. |
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Rotary Grant Scholar, London
Dec. 14, 2020
Speaking from Los Angeles, the district’s recipient of a $30,000 Global Scholarship, Simone expresses her gratitude to the district and TRF for sponsoring her Graduate Program in Global Mental Health, Public Health and Psychiatry at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine & King’s College, London. Simone Renault is a creator, psychiatrist- and activist- in training, and proud Iowan, who works tirelessly in pursuit of the Beloved Community and to align wellbeing with wholeness alongside marginalized peoples and in low-resourced regions of the world. Currently, she is on hiatus from her 4th year of medical school under a full scholarship at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA where she is Medical Coordinator of The Mobile Clinic Project and Director of Companion Care, which provides direct service and accompaniment to persons experiencing homelessness in West Hollywood. She graduated from The University of Iowa in 2014 with degrees in biology and international studies.
She has spent her time in quarantine organizing COVID supplies and funds for The Mobile Clinic Project’s community partners, crocheting stuffed animals, and learning how to become a more present and persistent member of her community. She is thrilled to be selected as this year’s Rotary Global Grant Scholar as she acquires her Masters degree from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and King’s College London in Global Mental Health. She is pleased to say that after many months of delays and restrictions, she will take flight for London on January 8th.
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