News and Events
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Campus groups invited to use land acknowledgement statement
Thursday, October 15, 2020Earlier this year, Iowa State developed its own formal land acknowledgement statement, honoring the contributions of native people who lived on and cared for the land.
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Recreation services finds ways to keep people active
Thursday, October 15, 2020Recreation services director Mike Giles and his staff have worked to find safe ways to continue many programs and new delivery methods for others.
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Wintersteen approves strategies for addressing child care shortage
Thursday, October 15, 2020Iowa State will take action in several ways to help address the critical shortage of affordable quality child care that employee and student parents face.
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Green tune-up
Thursday, October 15, 2020Outdoor Recreation Services provided free bike tune-ups as a part of the three pop-up events celebrating campus sustainability month during October.
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Iowa State engineer aids $9 million project to manufacture biobased electronics
Tuesday, October 13, 2020Researchers will use a new advanced manufacturing grant to develop technologies that use plant-based inks to print low-cost, biodegradable and recyclable electronics for sensors and batteries.
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New learning community stretches the limits of 'connections'
Thursday, October 8, 2020The International Adventure learning community (IALC) relies on websites and smartphone apps because it's connecting 58 students in 20 countries on four continents who were unable to get to Ames for their first semester of college.
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Design initiative expands college's discussion
Thursday, October 8, 2020The #InclusiveByDesign initiative builds on development around diversity, equity and inclusion within the College of Design.
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Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust helps establish digital scholarship laboratory at Iowa State’s Parks Library
Thursday, October 8, 2020The Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust of Muscatine, Iowa, has committed $225,000 to the Iowa State University Parks Library to establish a digital scholarship laboratory.
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Tackling real-world, real-time issues in the classroom
Wednesday, October 7, 2020As Iowa State University’s fall courses adjusted due to the COVID-19 pandemic, faculty across campus found ways to bring real-time, real-world issues into the classroom – wherever that may be.
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A data science difference-maker
Friday, October 2, 2020When Jessie Bustin (’22 data science, statistics) decided to go back to school after a career in the restaurant industry, she had a good idea of what she wanted to do next – but not necessarily how to describe it.
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Wintersteen endorses sustainability plan for campus operations
Thursday, October 1, 2020President Wendy Wintersteen has endorsed a five-year Strategic Plan for Sustainability in Operations (strategic plan), which identifies overarching strategies through 2025 that reduce the impact of campus operations on the environment.
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YSS Kids Club to offer school-age child care on campus
Thursday, October 1, 2020Faculty, staff and students struggling to navigate the scheduling challenges of children remotely attending elementary school soon will have support available on campus.
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Extension finds new ways to reach Iowans
Thursday, October 1, 2020ISU Extension and Outreach knew the pandemic would impact the way many of its specialists did their job. Rather than reject new ideas, extension embraced them.
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New process turns paper manufacturing waste into valuable chemicals
Thursday, October 1, 2020A group of researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory has discovered a way to convert a common byproduct of the paper manufacturing process into valuable chemical precursors for making nylon.
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Face covering design puts university's collaboration efforts on display
Thursday, September 24, 2020A committee of faculty and staff helped research, design and deliver the cloth face coverings ISU distributed to students during fall semester move-in.