Ready to Run Iowa sets records, achieves goals
Through the course of six workshops, the Catt Center’s 2013 Ready to Run Iowa program set new records for participation while achieving a number of goals. The workshop series concluded on June 21.
Through the course of six workshops, the Catt Center’s 2013 Ready to Run Iowa program set new records for participation while achieving a number of goals. The workshop series concluded on June 21.
As Greenlee senior Conrad Gredell pushes the control for the teleprompter down, ‘Iowa Press’ host Dean Borg’s voice narrates the words that scroll down the screen. Governor Terry Branstad is in the studio for this episode of ‘Iowa Press’ and Borg chooses his introductory words carefully, as Gredell quickly makes said changes.
Ames, Iowa – The text message invitation arrived on Cassidy Williams’ phone about 10 days before the event. "Can you and your sister, Camryn, come to Washington, D.C., and speak at a national White House meeting on technology?" It’s not an everyday request of college students, but the two Iowa State University computer science majors … Continue reading Iowa State’s Williams sisters share their computer science experiences at White House tech summit
Iowa State’s Neal Iverson and a team of researchers are about to leave for Iceland where they’ll camp near a glacier and collect sediment samples from long, narrow hills called drumlins. Geologists have studied the hills for about 150 years, but still don’t have a good understanding of how they’re formed underneath glaciers.
C-SPAN will broadcast one of Steffen Schmidt’s class lectures this month on its American History TV. Crews were on campus in March to record Schmidt’s lecture on the history of political parties in the U.S. It will air at 7 p.m. and 11 p.m. Saturday, July 20, and again at noon on Sunday, July 21.
As a freshman at Iowa State University, Deepak Premkumar wasn’t sure he made the right decision about where to attend college. After all, Ames was where he’d gone to high school, so he wasn’t exactly leaving home. And as the “typical liberal arts student” that Premkumar sees himself as, his sense was that the university … Continue reading Undergraduate research opportunities guide ISU economics student
Chad Gasta, associate professor of Hispanic Studies, will be the new chair of the Department of World Languages and Cultures, an academic department in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. His appointment went into effect July 1. Gasta has been an ISU faculty member since 2001. His research interests include early modern Spanish and … Continue reading Chad Gasta is named chair of World Languages and Cultures in LAS
William Gutowski started explaining how he and a team of researchers from Iowa State University’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will make Squaw Creek a model for planning sustainable water resources.
For the past three weeks, seven high school English teachers from Kosovo have immersed themselves in American learning and culture to gain practical knowledge and experience related to teaching English.
Cassidy Williams was on a flight that was anything but usual. The Iowa State University third-year computer science major participated in a San Francisco-to-London flight in June that was billed as "100 brilliant innovators. 11 hours. One plane. Can a single transatlantic flight help change the world?" Williams, the only undergraduate among the 100 high-tech … Continue reading Computer science major’s ideas take flight on British Airways’ UnGrounded