The person honored with the 2011 John V. Atanasoff Research and Discovery Award in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is no stranger to Iowa State. John L. Gustafson is a former faculty member at ISU and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory. He founded the Scalable Computing Laboratory at ISU in 1989. … Continue reading Former faculty member John Gustafson winner of Atanasoff Award
While attending Iowa State University, Christopher Johanson moonlighted at the Iowa Center for Emerging Manufacturing Technology. This was while he was working toward a BA in classical studies, which he earned in 1999. Johanson was developing multi-dimensional audio solutions and CAVE-based Virtual Reality applications at ISU. He continued this interdisciplinary approach to the ancient world … Continue reading A technical approach to the ancient world
Two Iowa State chemists, Thomas Holme and Ed Yeung, were among the 213 scientists inducted as American Chemical Society Fellows in 2011, the ACS announced.
As a lanky youth, Dan Nettleton grew up in Algona amidst a sea of picture-perfect, north-central Iowa farm fields. Although not a farm kid, he knew corn up close and personal. His parents, both high school teachers with summers off, rounded up their children for family detasseling jobs. Their task was to remove the tassels … Continue reading Dan Nettleton stands tall helping ISU scientists improve agriculture
Michael Bugeja, professor and director of the Greenlee School for Journalism and Communication, has been appointed to the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee (CCAC) by U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner.
Marcia Prior-Miller of the Greenlee School and Greenlee alumna Zhengjia Liuwon the top faculty paper award in the Magazine Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Liu’s and Prior-Miller’s paper is titled “Self-Schema-Persuasion Perspectives on Localization vs. Internationalization: A Case Study of ELLE China’s Editorial Strategies.” Liu and Prior-Miller worked with … Continue reading Top faculty paper award goes to Prior-Miller and Greenlee alumna
The Society for Technical Communication honored Iowa State English professor Charles Kostelnick with the Jay R. Gould Award for Excellence in Teaching Technical Communication in a ceremony at its annual conference in Sacramento.
When Linley Bruess was investigating majors at ISU during her freshman year, she knew she wanted to be in a major that allowed her to use her creative skills. She found that advertising was a great fit for her and, now in her last semester, she’s had multiple opportunities on and off campus to use … Continue reading Advertising major is a “great fit” for this creative, active student
Costas Soukoulis, Distinguished Professor and Frances M. Craig Professor of Physics and Astronomy and a senior scientist for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, was recently awarded an honorary doctorate by the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
A May 2011 Iowa State University graduate who has been active in creating awareness about poverty, homelessness and access to food is the first recipient of the Engel Family Upstander Award from ISU’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Nidhi Shah is a native of India who graduated with concurrent undergraduate and master’s degrees in … Continue reading Graduating biochemistry student who creates awareness about poverty wins first Engel Family Upstander Award