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ISU Lecture Series: “Ignite your Spark” with Dr. Magan Lewis
April 20, 2023 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
ISU Lecture Series
Date: 20th April, 2023
Time: 11:00 AM
Great Hall, Memorial Union
Co-sponsors: Department of Agronomy & Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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Magan Lewis, Ph.D., serves as the Bayer Crop Science Equipment & Automated Field Sensing Lead. In her role, she oversees the development, validation, global deployment, and logistics optimization of high-impact digital tools and sensors. Magan is an award-winning scientific leader and STEM advocate. She has received multiple recognitions, including being named an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) IF/THEN Ambassador, Des Moines Business Record’s Forty under 40, Seed World’s 2022 Future Leader of the Seed Industry, and was recently appointed by Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds to serve on the South-Central Regional STEM Advisory Board. Magan is a STEM education outreach fanatic, ID&E (Inclusion, Diversity & Equity) advocate, serves as a board member for the Science Center of Iowa, and is a co-leader of her local 4-H Clover Kids Chapter.
Magan holds a Ph.D. in Plant Breeding and Genetics from North Dakota State University and M.S. and B.S. degrees from the University of Minnesota. She resides in Des Moines, Iowa with her husband and two daughters. The Lewis family enjoys competitive swimming, hiking, identifying insects, tumbling rocks, traveling, playing piano, and NDSU Football.