Announcements

Software engineering, advertising students have key Smithsonian exhibit roles

AMES, Iowa — Seven Iowa State University students played essential roles in the creation of Iowa State’s exhibit for the 2012 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, June… Read More

June 27, 2012

Prozorov leads team helping unravel mysteries of a new superconductor

AMES, Iowa — In traditional electrical lines, a significant amount of energy is lost while the energy travels from its source to homes and businesses… Read More

June 25, 2012

Astronomers with Kepler Mission find puzzling pair of planets

AMES, Iowa – Two planets with very different densities and compositions are locked in surprisingly close orbits around their host star, according to astronomers working… Read More

June 21, 2012

Geetha Iyer, Christiana Langenberg honored by Gulf Coast journal

Geetha Iyer, English graduate assistant, is the recipient of the 2012 Gulf Coast Fiction Award for her short story, "The Glass-World Builder." Read More

June 18, 2012

LAS research group first to use innovative technology to modify plant DNA

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences team uses TALEN technology to alter a gene in rice to make the plant resistant to bacterial blight. Bing… Read More

June 13, 2012

Applied linguistics program hosting international educators

Volker Hegelheimer AMES, Iowa – Twenty-six teachers, professors and education officials from a dozen nations are coming to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences… Read More

June 6, 2012

Economist Peter Orazem earns Nobel laureates’ approval of education plan

AMES, Iowa — Peter Orazem doesn’t claim to have the answers to all the world’s problems. But when it comes to strategies on how best… Read More

June 4, 2012

Carver Charitable Trust awards $7.5 million to advance research initiative in biomolecular structure

Ames, Iowa — Pending approval by the Board of Regents, Iowa State University’s Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology will be named in honor… Read More

May 31, 2012

Iowa State physics researchers find new properties of the carbon material graphene

Findings could have applications in high-speed communications fields. Iowa State physicist Jigang Wang, right, examines graphene monolayers grown on a substrate mounted in a… Read More

May 29, 2012

26 on Liberal Arts and Sciences tenure, promotion list for 2012

AMES, Iowa – Promotions have gone to 26 College of Liberal Arts and Sciences faculty members, including 13 assistant professors who received tenure and promotion… Read More

May 29, 2012