Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture

Two new appointments for Leopold Center advisory board

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June 7, 2010

AMES, Iowa – A University of Iowa geography professor and an associate dean at Iowa State University will serve four-year terms on the advisory board for the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture. The 17-member board includes representatives from various institutions, agencies and farm groups who advise the director on funding of research proposals, policies and procedures, budget development and program review.

George Malanson is one of two representatives from the University of Iowa on the board. He holds the Coleman-Miller Professorship, the highest honor in his department, and focuses on research that integrates landscape ecology, climate change and geography. The university’s other representative is Erin Irish, associate professor of biology and corn geneticist.

The other new advisory board member is Joe Colletti, senior associate dean of the ISU College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Colletti is responsible for daily administration of college programs, including budgets and personnel issues. He also serves as associate director of the Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station, the ISU research program that has addressed Iowans' needs for more than 120 years. He also served on one of the Leopold Center’s first multidisciplinary research groups formed in 1991, the Agroecology Issue Team.

Colletti replaces Jack Payne, Vice President for ISU Extension and Outreach, who is leaving for a position at the University of Florida, Gainesville. Also representing ISU on the advisory board are Paul Lasley, who chairs the departments of sociology and anthropology, and Maynard Hogberg, chair of the ISU Department of Animal Science. 

For more info contact:

Laura Miller, Leopold Center Communications, (515) 294- 5272, lwmiller@iastate.edu. 

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