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Iowa State University Points of Pride

  • The world’s first electronic digital computer was developed at Iowa State by math and physics professor John V. Atanasoff and graduate student Clifford Berry, in the late 1930s. Their invention, the ABC computer, has been called the most important technological innovation of the 20th century.
  • The university is a leader in virtual reality research and its most advanced virtual reality theater, the C6, is the nation’s first six-sided theatre that totally immerses the user in images and sound.
  • Iowa State’s faculty are recognized for their scholarly efforts. Fifty serve as editors of national or international academic professional journals and almost 300 serve on editorial or advisory boards of such journals.
  • Iowa State is a member of the prestigious Association of American Universities, which has a membership of only 62 major research universities in the United States and Canada.
  • Iowa State’s learning communities program for undergraduate students is one of the top five such programs in the nation.
  • The university is consistently listed among the top schools for enrolling National Merit Scholars.
  • Every state and more than 100 foreign countries are represented in Iowa State’s student body.
  • Iowa State students have a reputation for winning national and international awards. Over the past two years they have won such contests for apparel design, NASA food technology, news writing, and music composition
  • Iowa State is nationally ranked for its beautiful campus and its central campus has been honored by the Association of Landscape Architects as one of only three university Centennial Medallion sites in the nation.
  • Iowa State’s 400 works of art on campus make its collection the largest in any public university in the nation.
  • Iowa State’s Reiman Gardens has been recognized for having the nation’s most outstanding public rose garden.
  • Iowa State holds the record for making the world’s largest Rice Krispie Treat, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. Mildred Day, an Iowa State alumnus, helped create the recipe for the popular snack food.
  • Iowa State graduate Cael Sanderson’s perfect collegiate wrestling record of 159 wins has been recognized by Sports Illustrated as the second most impressive feat in college sports history.

2/28/03

 

 
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