Committee Lists


Standing Committees

Agribusiness Education Committee: Provides overall guidelines for agribusiness education programming and specific oversight of the Field Extension Education Laboratory.

  • Sawyer (Chair)
  • Owen (Ex-officio)
  • Brodie
  • Heckert
  • Pringnitz
  • Rice
  • Tylka
  • Vagts

Computer Committee: Provides guidance for computer usage within the department.

  • Moore (Co-Chair)
  • Arrit
  • Gibson
  • Grant
  • Hornbuckle
  • Mullen
  • Thompson
  • Isaacson
  • Vogl
  • Gray

Greenhouse, Growth Chamber Committee: Provides guidance on use of greenhouse and growth chamber facilities controlled by the department.

  • Wang (Chair)
  • Brummer
  • Horton
  • Kaspar
  • Widrlechner
  • Vogl (Ex-officio)

Courtesy and Social Committee: Provides for the human-related activities important for a caring department, such as hospital stays, deaths, retirements, etc.

  • Burras (Chair)
  • Cruse
  • Owen
  • Pedersen
  • Evangelou
  • Isaacson
  • M.R. Licht
  • Mayberry

Diversity Committee: Provides guidance to assure that the department has a welcoming environment for under-represented groups.

  • Manu (Chair)
  • Brummer
  • Delate
  • Hartzler
  • Mallarino
  • Wiedenhoeft
  • Franzenburg
  • Stolt

Equipment and Machinery Committee: Provides advice for the maintenance, repair and replacement of equipment and machinery under the general control of the department.

  • Tabatabai (Chair)
  • Barnhart
  • Takle
  • Westgate
  • Vogl

Library Committee: Provides oversight for acquisitions and organizations of the departmental library and coordinates with the university library.

  • P. Peterson (Chair)
  • Brummer
  • Tabatabai
  • Takle
  • Isaacson

Outlying Farms Committee: Provides input for the operation and organization of research centers away from the Ames area

  • Owen (Chair)
  • Liebman
  • Schnable
  • Westgate

Seed Cold Storage Committee: Responsible for departmental review of public release of seeds originating from research programs within the Department of Agronomy

  • Lee (Chair)
  • Dekker
  • Goggi
  • Scott
  • Wang
  • Wirdlechner
  • Patrick

Undergraduate Scholarship Committee

  • Burras (Chair)
  • Cruse
  • Hornbuckle
  • Wiedenhoeft

Graduate Awards Committee

  • Westgate (Chair)
  • Al-Kaisi
  • Cruse
  • Moorman
  • Sandor

Faculty Awards Committee

  • Horton (Chair)
  • Cruse
  • Elmore
  • Karlen
  • Larson
  • Owen

Merit and Professional and Scientific Staff Awards Committee

  • Cambardella
  • Mullen
  • Wang
  • Isaacson (Chair)
  • Severson
  • Marek
  • Skrdla

Soil and Plant Analysis Advisory Committee: Provides oversight and advice for the Soil and Plant Analysis Laboratory.

  • Mallarino (Chair)
  • Henning
  • Sawyer
  • Scott
  • Westgate