2004 news releases
December 27
ISU's Larch Hall sustains damage from frozen, broken pipes
December 20
Iowa State researchers identify unusual enzymes in carbohydrate
biosynthesis
'Grow Your Small Market Farm' business planning program set
Iowa State University experts peer into the future
December 16
Two ISU colleges will be combined
Three ISU faculty named fellows of leading scientific society
December 13
ISU's Department of Residence to cut budget by an additional
$400,000
December 13
Geoffroy will ask Regents to approve college combination at ISU
December 6
Iowa student entrepreneurs to compete for business plan cash award Dec.
10
December 6
Minority Student Affairs office adopts new name
December 1
Holidays can be hazardous to pets
November 30
Veishea committees submit final recommendations
ISU's meat science program ranked No. 1 in the U.S.
ISU education professor examines Ohio school district to trace education
disparities between black and white schools
November 29
Portraits of Mexican women on display at College of Design, Nov. 29-Dec.
3
November 24
One case of whooping cough confirmed at ISU
Iowa State's Food Safety Answers program offers Thanksgiving food-safety
tips
November 16
Iowa State sources offer expertise, perspective on Sears/Kmart
merger
Iowa towns recognized for park and playground improvements
November 17
Agriculture, veterinary medicine and natural resources news from Iowa State
University
November 16
Iowa State's College of Education awarded $600,000 U.S. Department of
Education FIPSE grant to prepare teachers for K-12 virtual schooling
November 12
Rural small business conference Dec. 4 at Iowa State
November 11
Souleyrette appointed to endowed professorship
ISU professor helps develop postage stamp honoring noted scientist
November 9
Club's online auction generates funds for memorial scholarship
First female three-star general named fall 2004 Mary Louise Smith Chair in
Women and Politics at Iowa State
November 8
Iowa State psychology professor receives $400,000 National Science
Foundation grant to study recognition memory
November 5
MEDIA ADVISORY: ISU students will use a steamroller to create art about war Friday
Iowa State's College of Education receives U.S. Department of State grant
for Turkish student teacher internship
November 3
Faculty vote favors college combination
ISU Women's Studies program receives $300,000 U.S. Department of State
grant
"Murder in Maui" is theme for last 2004 International Dinner Series At ISU
Nov. 17
November 2
ISU Pappajohn Center to hold Nov. 10 Entrepreneur Forum
November 1
Gifts of $10 million will endow ISU program that helps developing
nations
October 28
Iowa State University agronomy researcher controls erosion to save the
African Sahel
October 27
ISU chemistry professor named Iowa Inventor of the Year
October 26
Iowa State's College of Engineering hosts Nov. 5 open house for new x-ray
imaging device
ISU symposium Nov. 6 will explore coexistence of genetically modified and
organic crops
Nader to speak on campus Wednesday
October 22
Veishea DVD won't be distributed
National Science Foundation funds ISU research on influence of political
parties
Iowa League of Cities honors two Iowa State faculty members
October 20
Open forum Oct. 28 on latest strategic plan draft
John Deere pledges more funding to Iowa State University's virtual reality
program
October 19
Local officials in Boone, Poweshiek counties team with Iowa State University
researchers to study shared services for their communities
Five named College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Master Teachers
October 18
Business ethics post-Enron topic of Oct. 27 ISU Presidential Lecture
October 15
Political commentator Ann Coulter to speak at Iowa State Oct. 29
Stephens Auditorium is 'Building of the Century'
October 14
$600,000 education grant to study middle school math teaching, student
interaction
October 13
ISU professor receives top civil engineering award
MEDIA ADVISORY: ISU will be featured in United Soybean Board briefing in
Washington, D.C., Oct. 14
October 12
Roll out the barrels: ISU's annual Snow Plow 'Roadeo' set for Oct.
14
Iowa State University to host election forum Oct. 21
October 11
Mardi Gras is theme for second 2004 International Dinner Series at ISU Oct.
17
Comments sought on second draft of plan
New home for ISU alumni becomes a reality
October 8
Fundraising effort to save ISU's Morrill Hall reaches goal
October 6
News Tip: Cy turns 50; special events planned for Oct. 9 Homecoming
game
Mathematics teacher education focus of Oct. 18 lecture at Iowa State
October 5
Hansen Early Childhood Lecture to be Oct. 13 at Iowa State
2004 World Food Prize Laureate to visit ISU Oct. 12
Borlaug lecture is Oct. 13
October 4
Student arrested in connection with bottle bomb incident
Iowa State's Vernon Schaefer named Hoover chair in geotechnical
engineering
October 1
ISU veterinary medicine professor receives national teaching excellence
award
September 30
Police safely remove bottle bomb from residence area
September 29
Iowa Congressman Leach named Robert Stafford Lecturer; to speak Oct.
13
Wolverine World Wide Inc. president and CEO named fall 'Executive In
Residence' by ISU's College of Business; to speak Oct. 7
September 29
Dow named Fellow of the American Folklore Society
Oct. 5 Iowa Venture Capital and Entrepreneur Conference launches fifth
annual Pappajohn New Venture Business Plan Competition 2004
September 28
Student participation sought for new "Leaders INspiring Connections"
committees
September 27
Reiman Entrepreneurial Speaker Series to be Sept. 30 at Iowa State
Agriculture, Veterinary Medicine and Natural Resources news from Iowa State
University
September 24
Opening of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Learning Community Sept.
29
Dedication of "Enlightenment" mural at Iowa State's College of Education is
Sept. 28
ISU Hilton Chair to discuss rural aging issues Sept. 30 at Gateway
Center
September 23
ISU fall convocation is Monday
Filmmaker Michael Moore to speak at Iowa State Oct. 17
Science and technology expert to discuss the politics of research
discoveries Sept. 29 at Iowa State University
September 22
Archie and Nancy Martin, who housed black students in the early to
mid-1900s, are immortalized with namesake ISU residence hall
September 21
Iowa State's College of Education receives record external funding in
2004
September 17
Kanawha's Moeller recognized as Iowa SBDC woman entrepreneur of the
year
September 14
ISU's department of residence to cut budget by $2.7 million
September 14
Thompson named interim associate dean for Iowa State's College of
Education
September 13
Nationally acclaimed GEM Fellows join ISU College of Engineering graduate
program
September 9
Iowa State University fall enrollment is 26,380
September 8
Iowa State engineering professor named top editor of leading academic
journal
ISU Dairy Science Club will host Alison Ciancio Memorial Scholarship
race/walk Sept. 25
Iowa State University announces disciplinary action for students involved in
Veishea disturbance
September 7
MEDIA ADVISORY: Iowa State to host Iowa launch press conference of new
League of Women Voters education/awareness campaign Wednesday, Sept.
8
Open forum on strategic plan draft is Sept. 10
Remembering 9/11: ISU alumnus returns to share first-hand experience from
the Pentagon
September 3
New book by Iowa State journalism professor examines how to bridge the
technological "Interpersonal Divide"
Iowa State's Catt Center to host Iowa launch of new national voter
education/awareness campaign by national League of Women Voters
Iowa State University psychology professor earns Young Investigator
Award
Iowa State University names chair of naval science department
September 2
Ecologist and author David Orr will speak
at ISU Sept. 10
September 1
ISU professor receives botanical society's
highest honor
August 19
ISU to dedicate Steve and Debbie Bergstrom Indoor Training Facility Sept.
3
Allen: Strategic plan draft is 'substantive, strategic'
August 19
William Robinson named Iowa State University Distinguished Arts and
Humanities Scholar
ISU's Greenlee School of Journalism names Better Homes and Gardens editor as
2004 Schwartz Award winner
August 18
ISU College of Veterinary Medicine will hold first White Coat Ceremony, Aug.
20
Iowa State University Organizes Workshops on Water, Wastewater Treatment
Practices
Pohlman to receive ISU College of Design's Christian Petersen Award
Iowa State foreign languages professor receives National Endowment for the
Humanities grant
August 12
ISU ag engineer's award-winning design advances fertilizer application
technology
August 9
Iowa State University chemistry professor elected to International Academy
of Quantum Molecular Science
August 6
Rover named ISU interim engineering associate dean
July 30
Iowa State University public policy and administration program earns
accreditation
Kindergarten, first grade students learn Japanese at special summer Iowa
State language program
July 28
Iowa State University will take its (art) show on the road to 2004 state
fair
Sharp named interim chair for health and human performance at Iowa State
University
July 27
Iowa State psychology professor elected president of national law
society
Science teachers spend their summer vacation in Iowa State research
labs
Iowa State revises policies to improve football game day experience,
increase fan safety
July 22
Got fat? You need it to reap cancer-prevention benefits of vegetables, says
Iowa State University professor
July 21
College of Business appoints Principal Financial Group Faculty
Fellow
July 20
Iowa State University selects new veterinary medicine dean
July 19
Iowa State University College of Business names Accenture faculty fellow
NEWS TIP: Iowa State experts can comment on mad cow disease
July 15
Poist named department chair for logistics, operations and management
information systems for ISU's College of Business
July 13
OPNET software gift will give business students an edge
July 13
Hebert to serve as interim chair of Iowa State's Chemical Engineering
department
Urbandale city manager wins Iowa State University public service
award
ISU external support soars to $274 million in FY 2004
July 9
MEDIA ADVISORY: ISU hosts economic development open house July 14
Iowa State's College of Business names new faculty fellows
July 8
ISU Athletics Director Appointment Extended
NEWS TIP: Iowa State experts offer insight on upcoming presidential
election
July 2
Glatz named interim Engineering dean at Iowa State
New chair named for ISU Food Sciences and Human Nutrition Department
July 1
New Plant Sciences Institute research targets Iowa ag issues
NEWS TIP: Iowa State experts can comment on mad cow disease
June 28
Iowa State University researchers hit the pavement for an academic road
show
Iowa State initiates entrepreneurship grant awards
June 28
Veterinary Medicine dean candidate to visit campus this week
June 25
ISU residence director resigns
June 23
Iowa State University selects new engineering dean
June 21
Iowa State's Michael Crum named DeVries Chair in Business
Palan
named interim associate dean in the College of Business
June 18
Renovated Vet Med teaching hospital will be named for Iowa State
alumnus
June 18
Two Iowa State University departments to merge July 1
June 17
Davis named CIO at Iowa State University
June 15
Ricardo Salvador will Lead ISU Honors Program
June 10
Iowa State Materials Science and Engineering Chair to Assume National
Leadership Post
Iowa State University Engineering Students Place in National Bridge-Building
Competition
Iowa State University Engineering Staffer Awarded National Recognition for
Recruiting Minority Graduate Students
National Hydrology Workshop at Iowa State University June 15-16
David Holger Appointed to New Post in Provost's Office
Proposed Fy05 Operating Budget Reallocates $8.5 Million For Employee
Compensation Increases
Iowa State Business Faculty to Study European Meat Tracking Processes
June 9
Iowa State To Dedicate Biosecurity Unit For State's Veterinary Diagnostic
Lab June 10
June 8
Jerry Thomas Named Interim Education Dean at Iowa State
June 7
Upcoming meetings set for Veishea task force committees
June 4
Upcoming meetings set for Veishea task force committees
June 3
Iowa State Announces New Engineering/MBA Concurrent Degree
Iowa State University Reviews Long, Short-Term Pasture Land Options
Iowa State to Address Future Use of Former Dairy Teaching Farm Site
University-Community Commission to Explore Problems, Seek Solutions
June 2
Iowa State Professor Transforms Garden into Celtic Myth at England's
Westonbirt Festival
Epperson, Oliver Named Associate Deans in
Iowa State's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
ISU Student Computer Team Selected for World Design Finals
June 1
Iowa State Science Education Program Awarded $600,000 Grant to Improve Early
Elementary Science Learning
ISU Researchers Study Chemical Processes that Govern Life
in New Metabolomics Lab
May 27
Iowa State Awarded $6.5 Million U.S. Air Force
Research Contract to Study Aging Military Aircraft
Iowa State University sources on effects of rising gasoline prices and alternative energies
May 24
Iowa State's Ada Hayden Herbarium Grows
May 21
$3.5 Million Gift will Help Renovate Iowa State's
Veterinary Teaching Hospital
May 20
Veishea Task Force Will Meet May 27
Agriculture, Veterinary Medicine and
Natural Resources News from Iowa State University
May 18
Iowa State University's Parks Library to Dedicate
'Prairie Sky'
May 17
Retired Psychology Professor Receives Counseling Award
Iowa SBDC Adds New Members to State Advisory Board
May 12
VEISHEA Task Force Members Announced
May 7
Iowa State to Host Midwest Economics Conference May 14-16
ISU Pappajohn Center for Entrepreneurship Receives Grant
Iowa State Architecture Student Wins International Competition
Iowa State University's Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication is
Re-Accredited
May 5
Fungus Named After Longtime Iowa State University Professor
Iowa State to Host Marketing Distinguished Speaker Series May 14
ISU's National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center to Offer Summer
Japanese
Program for Kindergarten, First Grade Children
Iowa State University to Host Conference on
Building Excellence in Governance May 7
Future of Virtual Reality on Display At ISU
International Workshop May 13-14
May 4
Iowa State University 2003-2004 Krause Challenge Champion
Iowa State Research Group Awarded $1 Million Grant
for Nanoscale Research
May 3
'CAD And Mouse' Research at Iowa State University Points Computer Users
Toward Fewer Aches and Pains
April 30
ISU's Department of Residence to Cut Budget by $1.7 Million
Iowa State Student Named Finalist in Hearst
National News Journalism Awards Competition
Iowa State Study Looks at Viability of Rural Main Streets
More Than 3,000 Will Receive Degrees at Iowa State University May 7-8
April 28
Iowa State University Student Receives Prestigious
Goldwater Scholarship
Three Iowa State University Students
Receive Phi Beta Kappa Scholarships
English Professor Named Shakeshaft
Master Teacher at Iowa State University
ISU Center for Excellence in the Arts
and Humanities Announces Research Awards
2nd Strategic Planning Forum is April 29
Iowa State University to Dedicate Livesay Structural Materials Testing
Facility Friday, April 30
April 27
Ag Trade Economist Available to Discuss
Implications of W.T.O. Ruling on Cotton Subsidies
VEISHEA is Suspended for 2005
Statement from President Gregory L. Geoffroy
April 23
Iowa State's College of Business to Offer Free Internship, Seasonal Job
Description Service to Iowa Businesses
National Association Recognizes Two ISU Architecture Professors
April 22
ISU Veterinary Medicine College is Reaccredited
Iowa State University Announces 2004-2005
Distinguished and University Professorships
April 21
Iowa State's Women's Studies Professor
Honored by American Association of University Women
April 20
Iowa State's Health and Human Performance Program to
Celebrate 100th Anniversary of Physical Education April 22
History of Department of Health and Human Performance
Iowa State University Hosts Regional Student Concrete Canoe
Competition
April 19
$500,000 Endowment will Establish Professorship
in Aerospace Engineering at Iowa State
April 18
Iowa State University President Gregory Geoffroy comments on Veishea
April 16
Jane Peterson Named Associate Director of Iowa State's
Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication
10 Iowa State Students Awarded Pappajohn Scholarships
Swedish University Honors Iowa State University Engineering
Professor
New Entrepreneurship Learning Community to Offer
Housing Scholarships, Seed Capital Fund for Student Firms
April 15
Hall of Fame Recognizes Outstanding Iowa State University Aerospace
Engineering Alumni
Iowa State University to Showcase Human Computer
Interaction Research Projects April 15
April 13
Iowa State Honors Alumni and Friends in New Ceremony
April 9
ISU Center For Excellence in the Arts
And Humanities Announces Board
'Dare to Discover' Iowa State's Veishea Celebration
April 16-18
Iowa State Seeks Alumni Input on Proposed Combination of Education and
Family and Consumer Sciences Colleges
April 8
Iowa State University to Host First Amendment Day April 15;
Former Middle East Hostage Terry Anderson to Speak
April 7
ISU Symposium will Tackle Biopharming Issues, April 22
April 6
Former U.S. Ambassador Carol Moseley Braun Named
Spring 2004 Mary Louise Smith Chair in Politics at Iowa State
April 5
Global Weather Headed Toward More Extremes,
Iowa State University Professor Warns
Draper Named Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Iowa State's Veterinary
Medicine College
March 31
Academic Honor Society Inducts 154 Students
at Iowa State University
ISU Engineering Professor Named President-Elect of National Accreditation
Board
March 30
Iowa Students Honored with Science Fair Awards
Two ISU Science Professors Receive National Science Foundation Early Career
Awards
March 26
Longtime American Indian Activist to Address Symposium at Iowa State
University April 2
March 25
Environment, Feminism and Food Slated for Discussion at Iowa State
University Conference April 9-10
Nieves Appointed Director of Veterinary Teaching Hospital at Iowa
State
Iowa State to Host Big 12 MIS Research Symposium April 2-4
Iowa State to Host International Business Conference April 2
ISU's Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures Awarded U.S.
Department of Education Grant
March 24
Iowa State University Education Dean Accepts New Post in California
March 23
College of Engineering Dean Candidates to Visit Iowa State
University
Planners Seek Input on ISU Future in March 26 Forum
March 22
Hansen Early Childhood Lecture to be March 30 at ISU
Pioneer Hi-Bred International Gift Supports ISU Projects on Issues
Surrounding Research Discoveries
March 19
Miller lecturer announced at Iowa State
Wells Fargo VP and "executive in residence" to speak March
25
March 18
ISU astrophysicists share $17.5 million award to go after gamma
rays
Info sessions for entrepreneurship learning community in
March
Small Business Tax Workshops at ISU Research Park March 25
March 17
Iowa State's Child Development Lab School Earns Reaccreditation
March 12
Top Young Iowa Scientists Exhibit Their Ingenuity
at Iowa State's Hilton Coliseum March 26-27
March 11
Whiteford Named Dean of Iowa State University's College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences
March 5
22nd Annual Iowa State University Fashion Show to
be Presented April 2-3 at Fisher Theater
March 4
Iowa State Announces Brown Vs. Board
of Education Essay Contest Winners
March 3
Research News from Iowa State University
ISU, State of Iowa Big Winners in Federal Biomass Research Effort
Allen Announces College Combination Planning Committee
February 27
College of Design to Exhibit Work by Faculty March 1-19
February 26
Iowa State Receives Grant to Partner with Indian University
College of Veterinary Medicine Dean Candidates to Visit ISU
February 25
National figure in the struggle for racial integration to speak at
ISU
Distinguished Arts and Humanities Scholar to Present Work March 9 at
ISU
February 24
Iowa State Career Fair Steers to put the Brakes
on a Dwindling Transportation Work Force
February 20
Iowa State University Dedicates Gerdin Business Building
Iowa State University's Whole Earth Telescope Confirms a Gem of a
Star
February 19
Research Park firms tabbed for economic development funds
February 17
Past AAAS President To Speak At Iowa State March 4
February 13
Iowa State University Summer Camp Hacks Through a Whole New
Wilderness
Iowa State's Vijay Vittal Elected to National Academy of Engineering
Meredith Corporation to Partner with Iowa State University Journalism
School
February 12
New Institute will Expand Research on Preventing Youth Behavior
Problems
February 11
Author of "Where Stuff Comes From" to Speak at ISU Feb. 19
February 10
Iowa State Physicists Honored by American Physical Society
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean Candidates to Visit
ISU
February 9
Iowa State to Create Entrepreneur Learning Community
ISU Computer Game Design Class Develops a Winner
February 6
Iowa State's Greenlee School of Journalism Earns
Re-Accreditation Recommendation
February 4
Iowa's Child Care Workforce Status Released by Iowa State Extension and Iowa
Early Care and Education Professional Development Project
February 3
Human-Computer Interaction Pioneer Will Speak at ISU Feb. 9
February 2
Planning begins toward first-ever combination of colleges at Iowa
State
January 30
Transgenic Corn Developed at Iowa State Has Greater Frost Tolerance Thanks
to Tobacco Gene
Iowa State University Lecture Series Questions:
'Is The Bill of Rights in Jeopardy?'
Iowa SBDC Adds New Members to State Advisory Board
January 29
ISU Exhibition will Showcase Design Excellence of Deere, Hon and Maytag
Products, Feb. 9-22
January 26
Iowa State University Engineering Students Headed for the Ultimate Space
Camp Aboard NASA Aircraft
ISU Students to Test Space Blender at NASA
Wortman Presented USASBE Award for Lifetime Achievement in
Entrepreneurship
January 21
Reiman Gardens Suffers Second Round of Flood Damage
January 16
ISU College of Business Raisbeck Career Services Center
opens
January 15
Iowa State University Professor Named IEEE Fellow
Nutrition, Cancer Prevention Expert Will Give Presidential University
Lecture at Iowa State
January 8
Gerdin Business Building Opens
