Animal Science Articles

• Graduate Spotlight - Maddie Harford

  posted 5/24/2023

  Maddie Harford has known she wanted to work with animals since her days in 4-H. Growing up on a farm near Strawberry Point, she knew her ultimate goal was the veterinary program at Iowa State, but she wasn't ready for the leap from small-town high school to big university. She decided to begin at Hawkeye in Animal Science.

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• Graduate Spotlight - Samantha Stokes

  posted 5/3/2023

  Samantha Stokes can trace her love of animals to the summers she spent at her grandmother's horse rescue. It made selecting a career path easy.

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• Hawkeye Community College meat science program grows as lockers beef up workforce

  posted 9/7/2021

  Hawkeye Community College has offered a meat science certificate for two years, combining courses that teach students about animal physiology, livestock evaluation and food safety, among other topics. In one course, students butcher and process a whole animal into primary/wholesale cuts and retail cuts.

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• Why I Chose Hawkeye: Kristi Mensen

  posted 9/27/2017

  From a small-town farm girl to a world traveler, Kristi Mensen discovered her calling at Hawkeye.

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• Hawkeye Community College Part of Sister States Delegation to Kosovo

  posted 7/21/2017

  Brad Kinsinger, director of Hawkeye's Global Agriculture Learning Center, and Kristi Mensen, an Animal Science student from Dyersville, were part of the delegation's agriculture team, led by Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey.

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