Concept papers for the fall competition WM Keck Foundation are due to the VPR/ED office by noon on June 3. Learn more about the foundation, the types of projects it funds, and the application process at an open forum this Wednesday: The WM Keck Foundation: Open Forum Wednesday, May 8 11 a.m.-noon Gold Room, Memorial … Continue reading WM Keck Foundation to host Open Forum on Wednesday
AMES, Iowa – Professor Clifford Bergman has been named the new chair of the Department of Mathematics at Iowa State University. Bergman, the Janson Professor of Mathematics, has been an ISU faculty member since 1982. He is a research mathematician and an award-winning teacher. He won an ISU teaching award in 1989 and was selected … Continue reading Clifford Bergman named next chair of Department of Mathematics
On May 3, the History Department announced that Ross Hall 618 has been renamed the “Dorothy Hubbard Schwieder Seminar Room.”
AMES, Iowa — Cassidy Williams started her spring semester at Iowa State University by speaking at a national White House meeting on technology. She’s ending it as a handpicked participant in British Airways’ unparalleled experiment at 30,000 feet. Williams, a third-year computer science student from Downers Grove, Ill., will be part of UnGrounded, an innovation … Continue reading Computer science student selected for Innovation Lab in the Sky
The Volunteer Center of Story County honored ISU’s Navy ROTC unit on April 29 for its contributions to area youth programs.
Iowa State student Cole Hoven and recent graduate A’Tres Norwood have been selected to participate in the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals, a year-long, federally-funded fellowship for study and work in Germany.
Three Iowa State University seniors from the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication have won the National Collegiate Effie Award for their campaign, "Less is More," which they pitched to the Heineken Strategic Marketing team last week. Brianna Schwind, Jonathan Kormann and Megan Eischeid earned the first place prize in the Heineken USA PSA Challenge … Continue reading Greenlee students earn National Collegiate Effie Award
Ruth Cardenas, an Iowa State University senior majoring in child, adult and family services, has received the Engel Family Upstander Award for Courage and Leadership for 2013. Sponsored by ISU’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Engel Family Upstander Award recognizes individuals who choose to take a positive stand on an issue of diversity … Continue reading Student Ruth Cardenas, a voice for others, is named Upstander Award recipient at Iowa State University
AMES, Iowa – Louise Lex of Ames, a longtime Iowa public health administrator, has been named the 2013 Dwight Ink Public Service Award recipient by the Department of Political Science at Iowa State University. Lex, who has a Ph.D. in professional studies from ISU, has served as a state health planner, coordinating community health assessment … Continue reading Louise Lex receives political science’s Dwight Ink Public Service Award
AMES, Iowa – The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State University will hold its spring 2013 Convocation Ceremony Friday, May 10, at 7 p.m. in Stephens Auditorium. All Liberal Arts and Sciences graduates in attendance will be formally and individually recognized at the cap and gown ceremony. Craig Ogilvie, professor in the … Continue reading LAS College’s convocation ceremony is Friday, May 10, in Stephens Auditorium