Iowa State University biology majors Molly Williams and Danielle Riley (both juniors) are the first recipients of the Kathleen Queisner Mims Scholarship, a new $100,000 endowed scholarship for science majors in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
In 1964, at age 35, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was the youngest man to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Between 1957 and 1968, the internationally known Civil Rights activist travelled more than six million miles to speak nearly 2,500 times. He was, inarguably, a rousing public figure.
When I was asked to bring cookies and cake to my interview with Paul Canfield, I briefly considered it, even though I knew he was joking.
Or, at least I hoped he was.
The full name of America’s first successful financial columnist wasn’t revealed for nearly a decade after their first column was written.
“S.F. Porter,” later acknowledged as Sylvia Porter, created a new career in the early 1930s: personal finance journalism. Her columns in the New York Post were wildly popular, earning her a strong following as one of New York’s most respected financial writers. Then, in 1942, it was revealed that the believed-to-be “wise old man” behind the thrice-weekly column was, in fact, a woman.
When Kelly Sebetka began to travel the world, her perspective changed from “what can I see?” to “what can I do?”
Volunteerism is a hallmark of Iowa State University student organizations, and one ISU group has been finding success assisting a particularly vulnerable population: homeless children. Each spring semester since 2010, Iowa State students in the Department of Psychology learning community have volunteered with children at an Ames homeless shelter, the Emergency Residence Project. ERP is … Continue reading Psychology students put classroom learning into action with homeless youth
Sarah Nusser, professor of statistics in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, has been appointed ISU’s next vice president for research. She will begin on Feb. 1.
Iowa State University’s Department of Economics has a special service. The new “Ask an Economist” website is a tool the public can use to get answers to their questions on a variety of economic topics.
The prolific, award-winning Iowa State University chemist – whose research has been published more than 550 times during his long career – has been cited thousands of times by other scientists.
Chemistry professor Klaus Schmidt-Rohr was one of seven scientists selected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society in the Division of Polymer Physics.