Scientist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Norman Borlaug rose from his childhood on an Iowa farm to develop a type of wheat that helped feed the world, fostering a movement that is credited with saving ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. DES MOINES – This generation can be the generation that sees Nobel Prize Laureate Norman Borlaug's dream ...

AMES, Iowa -- 2012 World Food Prize laureate Daniel Hillel will present the Norman Borlaug Lecture at Iowa State University. Hillel's presentation, "Soil, Water, Energy and Ecosystems in a Changing ...

AMES, Iowa — Working in separate facilities on two continents, Marc Van Montagu, Mary-Dell Chilton and Robert T. Fraley pioneered innovations in molecular biology and plant science that transformed ...

Norman Borlaug, a plant scientist whose work in increasing agricultural production is credited with saving millions of people worldwide from hunger, died Saturday in Dallas of complications from ...

Former Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has been named CEO of the World Food Prize Foundation to continue its legacy of promoting global food security and agricultural sustainability in line with the ...

The Iowa City school district's newest elementary school will be named after Norman Borlaug, an Iowa native and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. The school board Tuesday night selected the name upon ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — An Iowa-based group that strives to alleviate world hunger and awards an annual prize honoring individuals for their efforts to improve food availability, on Tuesday announced a ...

Derek Barchenger, an Oklahoma native and head of the Global Pepper Breeding Program at the World Vegetable Center, was named the 2025 recipient of the Norman E. Borlaug Award for Field Research and ...