UPDATE: Regents Approve Naming Pavilion after Iowa Select Farms Founders

s Agricultural Learning Center will be named for the founders of Iowa Select Farms.

The university asked for the Iowa Board of Regents permission to name the center the Jeff and Deb Hansen Agricultural Student Learning Center because the couple gave $2 million toward the building project. The board approved the name change when it met on Wednesday.

The Hansens are third generation farmers who founded Iowa Select Farms in 1992.

The student learning center is the second phase of the Dairy/Animal Science Education and Discovery facility project approved in 2004. At that time the learning center was originally called the pavilion.

Construction of the $7 million center was dependent on private fundraising.

The agricultural student learning center would be built near the Ames/Ice Arena by the corner of Mortensen Road and Gateway Hills Park Drive. It will include a 125-by-250 foot heated arena with seating for 1,000 people and room for four classrooms.

The regents will also discuss eliminating the university's bachelor of science program in insect science.

Read the full agenda here.