Des Moines Register 11-16-07 Dateline Iowa AMES ISU's Nonnecke named professor of the year Iowa State University horticulture professor Gail Nonnecke has been selected Iowa Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education. During the last two summers, Nonnecke led a team of students that helped develop a school garden for teaching agriculture in rural Uganda. Nonnecke's research specialty is sustainable small fruit or berry crops.