Keynote Address: Climate Change in Minnesota: Implications for a Citizen's Agenda; Mark Seeley, Meteorologist/Climatologist, Department of Soil, Water & Climate, Don Shelby, Reporter/Anchor, WCCO-TV

Session 1

A) What Your Pet Really Wants for Dinner, Marshall Stern, Animal Science. Just like humans, pets need to eat right to stay healthy, but the pet-food aisle offers a dizzying array of choices. This course will explain how to choose the best food for your pet's needs.

B) The Science and Art of Apple Breeding and Marketing, David Bedford, Horticultural Science. It takes about 25 years for a new apple variety to reach consumers and less than one in 10,000 "possibilities" ever make it to market. Learn how experts use science to improve the 'art' of selecting your next apple.

C) Eating and Exercising on the Go, Joanne L. Slavin, Food Science and Nutrition. Most people know they should eat better and spend more time exercising, but in a fast-paced world, meeting those goals can be difficult. Learn how you can live healthier while maintaining a busy lifestyle.

D) Eat Fish, but How Much? Deb Swackhamer, Institute on the Environment. Nutritionists urge us to eat fish for their protein and healthy Omega-3 fatty acids. Meanwhile, public health officials tell us to limit our fish consumptions due to contaminations. This seminar will help us resolve this dilemma.

Session 2

E) The Truth about Garden Remedies. Jeff Gillman, Horticultural Science. Do hair clippings really repel rabbits? Do your plants like it if you play music to them? This seminar will tell you which home remedies really work and which ones don't?

F) Minnesota Wine: Who has the Best? Anna Katharine Mansfield, Horticultural Science. What makes a great-tasting wine? What is the Minnesota wine community doing to improve the taste of locally-grown wine?

G) High Performance Houses Pat Huelman, Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering. If your house has a few problems--drafty windows, a wet basement, or poor ventilation--it could be costing you. Learn how to solve the 10 most common problems and turn your home into a high performance house.

H) Let Them Eat Cake: the Economics of Ethanol and Livestock. Brian Buhr, Applied Economics. Corn-based ethanol production has grown dramatically due to demands for renewable domestic fuel production. However, ethanol competes directly for the primary feed ingredient of cattle, hogs and poultry production. This presentation will address many of these issues and raise awareness of how policy choices often have wide-ranging consequences on others.

Lunch and College Update
Allen Levine, Dean, answered questions and described how the College is addressing the University's top three goals.

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