In his installation address, President Steven Leath promised to hire 200 new faculty in his first two full years on campus. LAS had already planned for a very active hiring season, and with nine additional positions supported by new resources from the President’s Initia- tive on High Impact Hiring, we are searching for 35 new colleagues. Across all colleges, well over 100 searches are currently in progress.
J-FAST’s goal was to implement less invasive strategies to respond to the needs of multisystem-involved youth. Community health service providers in Linn County agreed to each take one day of the week to see any child who needed an emergency room psychiatric evaluation. Afterward, the child would receive nine months of follow-up service from a case manager who provided links to recommended services, preventing further reliance on emergency rooms.
Stanley, an assistant professor of chemistry at Iowa State University, is establishing alkene hydroacylation reactions (processes that enable the formation of complex organic molecules in a single operation) as a platform for the synthesis of medicinally important compounds.
London in the late 16th century was a crowded, scuzzy, disease-ridden city. Illness plagued all ages and thousands perished, turning overcrowded burial sites into overcrowded burial pits. To combat the epidemic, city officials began taking notes. Or, more accurately, collecting data.
Two computer science majors offer their opinion on whether a computer programming course should be required for all college students, such as a foreign language is.
Hudson (BS chemistry ‘63) is making it possible for current ISU students to benefit as she did from hands-on research in a faculty lab. She and her husband, Don (BS aerospace engineering, ‘63), recently established the Alice and Donald Hudson Scholarship for Undergraduate Research in Chemistry, which will give promising students opportunities to work as members of ISU research teams.
In her new role, McDonough will develop programs to link LAS alumni with the college and the university. “My overall goal is to let alumni know we’re trying to connect with them and that we value our relationship with them,” she said. “My role is to develop the means to do that.”
Join Iowa State’s Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication April 14-17 in celebrating our five First Amendment freedoms.
The "Cunningham Trio" (Craig, Carrie and Cayla) will play the "Game of Thrones" theme at the weekday carillon concert on Monday, April 14, at 11:50 a.m. on Iowa State University’s central campus, according to Tin-Shi Tam, university carilloneur and associate professor of music. The "Cunningham Trio" are siblings – one is an ISU graduate and … Continue reading Carillon concert Monday to feature Cunningham siblings
An Elastic Compute Cloud team member, a senior associate editor, a Fulbright Scholar, a charter schools project manager and a champion of humanitarian work. They are five "young" College of Liberal Arts and Sciences alumni who have been honored as 2014 STATEment Makers by the ISU Alumni Association. STATEment Makers – ISU grads no older … Continue reading Five LAS grads named STATEment Makers