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NewsGround breaking for new community centerISU's Schilletter and University Village (SUV) apartments will soon have a new community center for student residents and their families to enjoy. Students and officials will participate in a groundbreaking for the new center on Thursday, Aug. 25, at 4 p.m. Catt Center celebrates votingThe Catt Center will celebrate voting Friay, Aug. 26, with displays and a complimentary buffet lunch and one-woman play. Folklorist seeks "taste of place" recipesAn Iowa folklorist is gathering recipes for Iowa foods that evoke a "taste of place." $10 million to ISU-based concrete centerA $10 million federal appropriation to an Iowa State University-based concrete technology center will help engineers from coast to coast develop pavements that last longer and need less maintenance. Play equipment innovators honoredSteven and Barbara King, who turned the concept of continuous play into a successful children's play equipment company, are the recipients of the 2005 Christian Petersen Design Award from the College of Design. Engineering College names diversity directorThe College of Engineering has named Nancy Knight its first director of diversity and graduate student affairs. New analytical tool helps detect cancerResearchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory have developed a tool that can identify the smallest traces of substances, including the biomarkers that could indicate breast and prostate cancers. The discovery and related research could lead to earlier detection of cancer. Students invited to disaster relief trainingNew Iowa State students can take part in disaster relief training with the city's Red Cross this weekend. AD search beginsThe committee appointed recently to conduct a nationwide search for a new Iowa State University athletics director began its work on Aug. 16. Alumnus killed in IraqISU alumnus David L. Giaimo, 23, was killed recently while serving in the Army in Iraq. He graduated from Iowa State in 2003, with a degree in finance. National honors for women's basketballThe Cyclone women's basketball team ranked fifth nationally among Division I schools with a 3.461 team grade-point average in 2004-05.  Cindy BrowneBrowne appointed public radio directorCindy Browne, a Minnesota-based public broadcasting consultant and former executive vice president for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, has been appointed executive director of Iowa Public Radio, effective Sept. 1. Charges to goIowa State researchers are hoping to make Iowa-made solar technology wearable. The result would be a convenient way to charge your electronic devices. Colletti named to interim Ag postJoe Colletti, professor and interim chair of the department of natural resource ecology and management, has been named interim senior associate dean of the College of Agriculture. |
 Welcome backPresident Gregory Geoffroy and Kathy Geoffroy popped in on students in residence halls recently to welcome them back to campus and offer candy. In the newsHigh service ranking for Iowa StateIowa State ranks 34th nationally in The Washington Monthly's community and national service-based ratings of colleges and universities. Mack fights backDes Moines Register Fun-loving, feisty associate professor Barbara Mack is an institution at Iowa State. Just ask the thousands of journalism students she's taught since 1986. Now, after recovering from brain surgery, Mack is back where she belongs. Building a better pigUSNews.com "They lost the taste, they lost the juiciness, they lost the moisture content," says ISU animal scientist Maynard Hogberg, referring to years of breeding leaner, more muscular hogs. ISU meat scientist Steven Lonergan is working on a process to make lean pork meltingly tender. Poll says Iowans like Rice in '08Quad-City Times Condoleezza Rice could be a presidential contender in 2008, a poll of Iowa Republicans indicates. Dianne Bystrom, director of ISU's Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics, says Rice is a "new and different face" and overall, there's increasing acceptance for women candidates. Athletics |
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