A blog for the Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
Photo by Dr. Nicodemus.
Every year for the past nine years, our department has taken a trip to the Medina Children’s Home to serve the Children’s Home and the kids that live there. The trip began when house parents from Medina invited us to come and do different service projects such as cleaning vacant cottages, working livestock, gathering pecans, painting, mowing and organizing food pantries and clothing donations. More »
Photo by Dr. Michael Nicodemus.
Exceptional. Innovative. Real. That is ACU’s motto and here in the A&E Department we are contributing to that way of thinking. Most people would see a cactus and avoid it because of the pain that it could potentially cause them, but not the Exceptional, Innovative and Real professors and students in our department. More »
Heather Isbell and Anna Watson at Bondi Beach.
Two members of our department, Heather Isbell, a junior Environmental Science major, and Anna Watson, a senior Animal Science major, went to Moree, New South Wales, Australia with World-Wide Witness this summer. Moree is in the northern part of New South Wales, which is in the southeastern part of Australia.
Heather and Anna aided local churches and helped serve the Aboriginal people in and around Moree. They played with and ministered to children in the park and in youth group and passed out fruit to kids on the street. On Wednesday mornings, the girls were able to participate in a Bible study in which they went through 1 Corinthians 10-16, and Wednesday evenings they attended a prayer meeting. They also had the opportunity to share their testimonies with the youth in the community and on Thursdays, they helped serve a warm meal to the local Aboriginal people.
On the trip they saw wildlife such as kangaroos, emus, koalas, wombats and lots of parrots. The experience Heather and Anna had is one they will never forget. They would both encourage you to check out World-Wide Witness and expand your horizons. What you learn here at ACU can be used to impact the lives of others all around the world. More »
Dr. Cooke in front of a truck load of tires.
Photo by Dr. Nicodemus
On Saturday September 14, Dr. Cooke and Dr. Nicodemus organized a day to clean up the Cedar Creek Waterway here in Abilene. This was the second such project, the first was on March 2, 2013. The Cedar Creek Waterway runs from Kirby Lake to Lake Fort Phantom. It is approximately a 15 mile trail and most of the other creeks in Abilene feed into it at some point. More »
Along with the new school year comes new officers for the Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Club (or AES Club). This year’s officers are President Will Morales, a junior Wildlife Management and Livestock Production major from Rotan, Texas, Vice President Bryce Gerlach, a senior Environmental Science major from Far Hills, New Jersey, and Chaplin Cade Deines, a Communications major from Cypress, Texas. All of the officers chose to take the position they did in order to serve the AES Club family. More »
This summer our department sponsored a study abroad trip to Mumena, Zambia. The class offered was AENV 440, International Applications in Agricultural and Environmental Studies, and it focused on methods of sustainability in Zambia. The members of our department that went were Dr. Nicodemus, Jason Davis, Merissa Ford, senior Agribusiness major, Kim Panther, sophomore Animal Science major, and Dayna Roe, junior Environmental Science major.
Some of the highlights of the trip included visiting Victoria Falls and going on a safari, getting to stay in the local village and singing and dancing around a campfire with the locals. I even heard that Dr. Nicodemus is quite the dancer! More »
