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Rural small business conference Dec. 4 at ISU
A one-day, statewide conference for rural businesses, "Solutions for
Managing Business Risk," will be held from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday,
Dec. 4, in the Richard and Joan Stark Lecture Hall (room 1148), Gerdin
Business Building, Iowa State University. Registration for the conference is
$50 and includes lunch. Registration must be paid in advance. The conference
is part of the Grow Your Small Market Farm Business Network, an Iowa Small
Business Development Center (SBDC) program based in Des Moines. The SBDC is
the outreach unit of Iowa State's College of Business.
News release.
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Souleyrette appointed to endowed professorship
Reginald Souleyrette, professor of civil, construction and environmental
engineering, has been named the first recipient of the Gerald and Audrey
Olson Professorship in Civil Engineering.
News release.
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ISU professor helps develop postage stamp honoring noted scientist
When U.S. Postal Service researchers landed on ISU chemical engineering
professor Kenneth Jolls' Web site, they knew they'd found the best person to
help develop a new stamp honoring a noted American scientist.
News release.
Iowa State experts available to speak to media about Asian soybean rust
The USDA confirmed today that Asian soybean rust has been found in
Louisiana, the first known incidence of the disease in North America. Asian
soybean rust is an aggressive fungal disease that can reduce soybean yield
substantially. Media can contact Iowa State experts who can discuss the
disease and what its discovery means for producers.
News release.
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First female three-star general named fall 2004 Mary Louise Smith Chair
in Women and Politics at Iowa State
Claudia Kennedy -- the only woman to achieve the rank of three-star
general in the U. S. Army -- is the fall 2004 Mary Louise Smith Chair in
Women and Politics at Iowa State University. Kennedy will discuss "Women,
Leadership and the Future" at 8 p.m. Monday, Nov. 15, in the Sun Room,
Memorial Union. The free event is sponsored by the Carrie Chapman Catt
Center for Women and Politics. Kennedy's public lecture is part of the
Advancing Women Leaders series, sponsored by the University Committee on
Women, Women's Leadership Consortium, Office of the Provost and Catt Center.
News release.
ISU psychology professor receives $400,000 National Science Foundation
grant to study recognition memory
For those who have stood in line at the ballpark and noticed a passerby
who seemed oddly familiar, but couldn't place a name, research from a
five-year, $400,000 National Science Foundation grant awarded to an Iowa
State University psychology professor may provide perspective. Anne Cleary,
assistant professor of psychology, will study familiarity-based recognition
memory -- why some features (color, place, texture, etc.) of an experience
later give rise to feelings of familiarity and what underlying aspects of
the mind cause these subjective feelings.
News release.
ISU's College of Education receives U.S. Department of State grant for Turkish
student teacher internship
Iowa State University's College of Education has received a $200,000
grant from the U.S. Department of State to bring 30 Turkish education
students from Bilkent University, Ankara, to intern with Iowa teachers and
students as part of a cultural exchange and student teaching program. The
Turkish graduate students will be in the United States from January to March
2005.
News release.
Faculty vote favors college combination
Faculty in the colleges of Family and Consumer Sciences and Education have
voted on the proposal to combine their colleges.
News release.
ISU Women's Studies program receives $300,000 U.S. Department of State
grant
Iowa State University's Women's Studies program has received a
three-year, $300,000 grant from the U.S. Department of State to study the
relationship of gender to the emerging democracies and market economies of
the former Soviet Union. Jill Bystydzienski, director of the program, said
the grant will allow a cultural exchange with the Center for Gender Studies
at Kharkiv National University, Ukraine.
News release.
"Murder in Maui" is theme for last 2004 International Dinner Series At
ISU Nov. 17
Tickets are on sale for the last international dinner, "Murder in Maui,"
on Wednesday, Nov. 17. Participants will "investigate" a murder mystery
while enjoying a five-course Hawaiian dinner. A reception and cash bar
begins at 6 p.m. in LeBaron Hall, room 1009. The dinner will be in the Joan
Bice Underwood Tearoom, room 23, MacKay Hall. Tickets cost $45 per
person.
News release.
ISU, national climate survey results comparable
A consultant who recently completed a climate survey at Iowa State
said results are comparable to a national assessment she conducted
last year.
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