News
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.
News
story |
Final report
(pdf)
ISU Pappajohn Center to hold Nov. 10
Entrepreneur Forum
Two Iowa State University alumni and central Iowa entrepreneurs will
speak on "Entrepreneurism on the Edge -- Are You Scared Yet?" at noon
Wednesday, Nov. 10, in the Pioneer Room, Memorial Union. Peg
Armstrong-Gustafson is the owner and founder of Amson Technology and Craig
Hiemstra is developing new strategic business relationships and consulting
for Phasient Technologies, Ames. The event is free and open to the public.
Participants may bring their lunch. The forums are sponsored bimonthly by
the ISU Pappajohn Center for Entrepreneurship. A roundtable discussion
follows the speaker presentations.
News release.
Symbolic cymbals
Members in the ISU marching band drumline have decorated their cymbal
bags with homemade American flags and messages to a former member now
serving in Iraq. Adam Storey, a Des Moines resident who majored in forestry
during his freshman year, currently is serving as a reservist in the Marine
Corps and has been station in Iraq for the past two months.
See story.
Gifts of $10 million will endow ISU program that helps developing
nations
An Iowa State College of Agriculture program that helps developing
nations address rural hunger and poverty received gifts of $10 million from
Gerald A. and Karen A. Kolschowsky, and the Gerald A. and Karen A.
Kolschowsky Foundation, Inc. The gifts were announced Friday at the ISU
Foundation Governors luncheon.
News release.
Researcher controls erosion to save the
African Sahel
An Iowa State agronomy professor is using erosion control
methods to restore the Sahel and Niger River in West Africa, where land
degradation threatens the region's economic stability. He will present his
findings next week in Seattle at the 2004 international annual meetings of
the American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America and Soil
Science Society of America in Seattle.
News release.
2004 Inventor of the Year
Edward Yeung Distinguished Professor in Liberal Arts and Sciences and
professor of chemistry has been named 2004 Inventor of the Year by the Iowa
Intellectual Property Law Association. He was honored for his development of
a DNA sequencer that combines laser microfluorescence with capillary
electrophoresis, two analytical chemistry methods for determining the minute
components of a substance. The sequencer can detect, monitor and quantify
materials 24 times faster than earlier DNA sequencers.
News release.
New x-ray imaging device demonstrated
The College of Engineering will demonstrate a new
x-ray imaging device used to study part of the paper recycling process
during an open house from 1 to 3 p.m. Friday, Nov. 5, in the Transport
Processes Laboratory, 1121 Black Engineering Building. Mechanical
engineering professor Ted Heindel required the specialized industrial imaging device to study the
interaction of multiphase flows (gas, liquids and solids) in a contained
area. The device has potential uses for everything from food to fuel to
pharmaceuticals. The device was funded with $640,000 in grants from the
National Science Foundation and Iowa State.
News release.
How can GM and organic crops coexist?
That's the subject of a Nov. 6 symposium at ISU. Hosted by the Bioethics
Program, the symposium will information and discussion about the coexistence
of organic agriculture and genetically modified (GM) crops. The event will
be from 2 to 5:30 p.m. in the Gallery of the Memorial Union. It is free and
open to the public.
News
release.
