News and Events
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Fall Fest offers hay bale toss, giveaways and more
Sunday, October 29, 2023A week-long event featuring free food, pottery painting and dog therapy will be hosted by the Inter-Residence Hall Association (IRHA) from Monday to Friday at various locations across campus.
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New alternative response program connects Ames residents to mental health resources
Thursday, October 26, 2023ARCH, or Alternative Response for Community Health is a partnership between Mary Greeley Medical Center, Ames Police Department and ISU Police Department. ARCH, now a year old, offers an alternative to a police response in a mental health crisis.
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Freeskating, bongo drums: All on display at Open Spaces
Thursday, October 26, 2023Students of all skill levels could be seen skating around with one wheel attached to each of their feet in front of the Student Innovation Center as part of the first Open Spaces event of the year.
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Ames Repair Café, Parks Library bring sustainable volunteer initiative to campus
Tuesday, October 24, 2023The Ames Repair Café, a volunteer-driven initiative in partnership with the City of Ames and the Ames Public Library, brought sustainable services to Iowa State on Tuesday evening in collaboration with Open Access Week.
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Iowa State holds celebration in honor of Campus Sustainability Month
Monday, October 23, 2023Each October, Iowa State holds a celebration in honor of Campus Sustainability Month. This year’s event took place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday on the South Library Lawn.
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A layered lake is a little like Earth’s early oceans−and lets researchers explore how oxygen built up in our atmosphere
Monday, October 23, 2023Little Deming Lake doesn’t get much notice from visitors to Itasca State Park in Minnesota. There’s better boating on nearby Lake Itasca, the headwaters of the Mississippi River.
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Iowa Cyber Hub enlists ‘Cybersecurity Ambassadors’ to help their communities
Friday, October 20, 2023With “a legion of cyber guardians” posted around the state, the Iowa Cyber Hub is hoping to improve hometown cybersecurity for Iowans.
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Iowa State, Alliant Energy dedicate solar farm south of Ames
Friday, October 20, 2023Iowa State University (ISU) and Alliant Energy celebrated the completion of construction on the Alliant Energy Solar Farm at Iowa State University earlier today.
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New recycling posters aim to improve campus sustainability practices
Thursday, October 19, 2023New signage has been placed above recycling and waste bins as part of a recent sustainability initiative to improve the quantity and accuracy of recycling on Iowa State’s campus.
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Biomedical engineering learning community debuts
Thursday, October 19, 2023The College of Engineering added biomedical engineering as a major this fall, and with it came an opportunity for the new major’s students to find community and an opportunity to study as a group.
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ISU professor celebrated for efforts to boost Ethiopian milk production
Thursday, October 19, 2023Five years ago, Curtis Youngs was in Ethiopia training researchers on bovine embryo transfers. Talking to the father of an Ethiopian colleague, Youngs mentioned there are dairy cows in the U.S. that can produce 60 liters of milk per day at peak lactation.
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2023 Norman Borlaug Lecture features humanitarian leader who replaces landmines with farmland
Thursday, October 19, 2023The 2023 World Food Prize Laureate, Heidi Kühn, will discuss her humanitarian efforts to turn land haunted by the specter of war and violence into productive agricultural land during a lecture at Iowa State University.
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Combining math and entomology to predict, mitigate soybean aphid outbreaks
Thursday, October 19, 2023At a chalkboard in his office, Rana Parshad draws a vertical y-axis for aphids and a horizontal x-axis for time. Under an exponential growth model, the associate professor of mathematics at ISU explains aphids multiply quickly and indefinitely.
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Alleviating food insecurity at the SHOP Food Pantry
Tuesday, October 17, 2023The rumble of fully loaded carts echoed down a hallway in Beyer Hall on a late-summer morning as volunteers unloaded about 3,500 pounds of food from a truck for delivery to the SHOP Food Pantry.
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New CVM Program Aims to Recruit Production Animal Medicine Veterinarians
Tuesday, October 17, 2023A joint program between the College of Veterinary Medicine and the Department of Animal Science in Iowa State University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences has been established with the goal of educating more veterinarians.