ISRC Co-director and Iowa State Professor of Agronomy Asheesh "Danny" Singh was appointed Iowa State University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) associate dean for research and discovery and associate director of the Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station, effective January 1, 2025.

In his new role, Singh will provide strategic guidance on opportunities and challenges related to the college's research enterprise and further enable the college’s graduate student programs. He will work with CALS Dean Dan Robison and the college’s other associate deans to ensure operations advance and integrate across the college's missions and that resources are deployed wisely. Singh will engage with department chairs, center directors and individual faculty and programs to identify ways to amplify the resources, the impact and the scope of research activities across the college. Full article