News and Events

  • Healthy Habits Develop a Healthy Environment

    Monday, November 30, 2015
    A lecture titled "Health-Related Habits...Scientifically Speaking" will be given by Alison Phillips, assistant professor of psychology and director of the Healthy Habits Lab at Iowa State, on developing these healthy habits.

  • New Benches With a Green Twist

    Thursday, November 19, 2015
    The hallway waiting game got a little easier for students this month in eight campus buildings. Campus services crews installed 178 benches in hallways in Carver, Coover, Gilman, Hoover, Howe, Lagomarcino, Pearson and Physics Halls.

  • Film Creates Conversation on the Meaning of Life

    Thursday, November 19, 2015
    The documentary "What Matters?" premiered in the Sun Room of the Memorial Union on Nov. 12. The film follows three friends, Dan Parris, David Peterka and Rob Lehr, as they hitchhike from the United States to Africa while trying to live on $1.25 a day.

  • Event Promotes New Businesses and Brings Awareness to Their Startups

    Thursday, November 19, 2015
    Startup Weekend Ames is one of over 230 start-up events happening around the globe this weekend. While allowing participants to be creative and share their ideas, the event is also encouraging students to create their businesses in Ames.

  • Movement Classes Benefit Parkinson's Patients

    Wednesday, November 18, 2015
    The kinesiology program uses music therapy, stretching, exercise and ballroom dancing to help participants keep their bodies up to par despite the debilitating effects of Parkinson’s disease.

  • Strategic Meetings Planned to Offer Communication and Input

    Tuesday, November 17, 2015
    The six strategic planning subcommittees are going to polish Iowa State's strategic plan, and they want student and faculty input.

  • Desks Offer a Healthier Opportunity to Working Conditions

    Tuesday, November 17, 2015
    Kinesiology professors are practicing what they preach by using alternative desks in their offices. Alternative desks, specifically standing and treadmill desks, provide a variety of health benefits by decreasing the amount of time people spend sitting.

  • Connecting Teens to Healthy Choices, ISU Students Develop Awareness Program

    Monday, November 16, 2015
    Iowa State University students are helping teenagers by sharing stories and strategies for overcoming difficulties in life. The stories can be found on an Iowa Department of Public Health blog called IAMincontrol.org.

  • Principles and Good Practices Create a Sustainable Change Agent for Professor of Psychology

    Monday, November 16, 2015
    The consequences of sleep deprivation go far beyond just feeling tired the next day. That’s why Zlatan Krizan, an associate professor of psychology at Iowa State University, is working to better understand how poor sleep affects one-third of Americans.

  • Scoop a Soup Event Supports Homeless and Hungry in Ames

    Monday, November 16, 2015
    Ames helped fight hunger and homelessness Tuesday with a "Scoop A Soup" event. “Just because you don’t see it visually in our community doesn’t mean we don’t have citizens who are affected by it,” said housing coordinator Vanessa Baker-Latimer.

  • Remeberance Event Supports and Encouages Diversity

    Monday, November 16, 2015
    About 50 students, administrators, faculty and community members gathered Monday evening in the Campanile Room at the Memorial Union for the Transgender Day of Remembrance.

  • Architecture Students Design Connection Points for Humans and Animals

    Sunday, November 15, 2015
    After engaging with an employee of McFarland Park, 16 students individually designed spaces that would realign the human connection with North American river otters, smoky winged beetle bandit wasps, sedge wrens and Indiana bats.

  • Students Grow Plants to Add Joy to the Season

    Thursday, November 12, 2015
    The ISU Horticulture Club will sell poinsettias just in time for the holiday season from Dec. 3 to 5.

  • Holiday Traditions Support Art Education and Celebrate Community

    Thursday, November 12, 2015
    The Octagon Center for the Arts in Ames will host its annual Festival of Trees event beginning Friday. Area businesses, organizations and groups have decorated trees in the Octagon Center's main gallery, which will be open for viewing beginning Nov. 13.

  • Advocation Brings About Awareness to the Challenge of Sexual Assault

    Thursday, November 12, 2015
    Perhaps one of the most glaring issues that demands not only students’ attention but also intervention is the culture on college campuses that enables sexual assaults, contributes to victim blaming and does not support survivors.

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