Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll 2024 Summary Report Released

The 2024 Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll Summary Report has been released and focuses largely on the well-being of Iowa farmers over time. Specifically,… Read More

2024 Winter Temporary Winter Schedule
Temporary Winter Schedule

Card Access Only December 23, 2024, through January 20, 2025. Offices closed December 24, 2024, through January 1, 2025… Read More

Gillian Anderson 2024 Agricultural and Rural Policy Studies
Beal Lecture speaker, Ryanne Pilgeram, Ph.D. Regenerative Economies Manger of The Wildness Society.
David Peters—Understanding Rural Legal Deserts to Inform Public Policy: Identifying and Describing Lawyer Gaps in Non-Metropolitan Counties

Our first finding is that there is no binary definition of legal deserts, rather it falls along a continuum based on severity of lawyer gap… Read More

Sam Mindes – ‘Empowering Rural Electric Infrastructure Resilience’

A team selected for strategic-plan seed funding during the spring 2024 Community Vitality Research and Innovation Roundtable recently received a three-year $1.5 million award from… Read More

Ryanne Pilgeram 2024 Beal Lectureship speaker
Abdi M. Kusow and Dan Krier—Racialized and Geopolitically Charged Contexts of Reception in New Immigrant Destinations

This article unites the emerging literature on immigrant contexts of reception with critical sociology. New immigrant destinations outside of traditional gateway cities are especially prone… Read More