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ContactNews ServiceAnnette Hacker, director, (515) 294-3720 Office: (515) 294-4777 |
NewsWomen's basketball schedule finalIowa State's 2005-06 women's basketball schedule has been finalized with the addition of six televised games, including two Fox Sports Net broadcasts and four Mediacom telecasts. Students organize relief for Katrina victimsIowa State students will collect donations for the victims of Hurricane Katrina at various locations on campus Sept. 1. Reiman Gardens to celebrate 10 yearsReiman Gardens will celebrate its 10-year anniversary Sept. 17-18 with free admission Saturday and a barbecue dinner the same night. 
Mural celebrationSome of the student artists who worked on the "Unity" mural outside the College of Design were on hand for the Aug. 30 mural celebration. The mural celebrates Iowa State and Ames' new "one community" theme. Beam signing to launch work on success centerThe public is invited to a ceremonial beam signing of the Hixson-Lied Student Success Center, Thursday, Sept. 8, at 1 p.m. The ceremony will take place on the building site, south of Fisher-Nickell Hall. Panel features ISU alumniIowa State alums return to Ames to discuss the future of business and technology Book looks at Kahn architectureIn his new book, ISU's Thomas Leslie takes a fresh look at one of the most influential architects of the late 20th century. Winning technology for noise reductionAn Iowa State spin-off company has won a $440,000 grant from the NSF to develop its unique noise-reduction technologies. ISU establishes center for computational intelligenceA new Iowa State center will study how massive data sets can be integrated, analyzed and interpreted to advance collaborative science and research. Private support for ISU grows 30 percentFor the second consecutive year, a record number of donors have committed more than $82 million in private support for Iowa State. For FY05, the ISU Foundation reported a 30 percent increase in new gifts and future commitments over the previous year. ISU receives $3 million for bioinformaticsThe National Science Foundation has awarded Iowa State a $3 million grant for graduate studies in computational molecular biology. |
Proving Da Vinci rightResearchers from Ames Laboratory and Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory have used quasicrystals to prove a Leonardo Da Vinci theory about friction holds even at the atomic level. In the newsB-schools that do it their wayBusiness Week Iowa State's MBA with a minor in sustainable agriculture, the only graduate-level program of its kind in the country, is one of a handful of specialized programs cited in Business Week. Ag school confidentialU.S. News: America's Best Colleges "At premier ag schools like Iowa State, old stereotypes about colleges of agriculture have little in common with the broad-based, interdisciplinary education [Betsy] Hertz and her fellow students encounter." High service ranking for Iowa StateIowa State ranks 34th nationally in The Washington Monthly's community and national service-based ratings of colleges and universities. Athletics |
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