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News Service Homepage Contact us Archives RSS news, events For the media News releases Download mug shots Research tips News tips, advisories Ag tips Other news sources Campus maps For the campus Faculty, staff announcements Student announcements Arts & entertainment Research news Sports news Inside Iowa State Iowa State Daily Time of day Weather reports Contact News Service Annette Hacker, director, (515) 294-3720 Office: (515) 294-4777	News Bids for food service contract available for review Proposals submitted by four food service management organizations bidding to operate Iowa State's food service program will be available for review, beginning Jan. 9. News release. Visioning program communities selected Twelve Iowa towns have been selected to participate in the award-winning community visioning program this year. ISU's landscape architecture extension is one of the program's sponsors. News release. Student will study hunger issues Uganda Davenport native and Iowa State student Amber Herman will study and do research aimed at fostering agriculture during a trip to Uganda this semester. News release. Cyclones lose close bowl contest Iowa State's rally fell three points short to No. 14 TCU in the Houston Bowl Dec. 31. TCU edged past the Cyclones, 27-24. News release. 100 years of materials science at Iowa State Iowa State University's Department of Materials Science and Engineering is celebrating 100 years of teaching and innovation. News release. Alloy could boost jet fighters The next generation of jet fighter aircraft could fly farther and faster thanks to a new high-strength aluminum alloy prepared at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory. News release. Wrestler at Iowa State chosen to perform overseas An ISU graduate student in civil engineering has accepted an invitation to train and wrestle in Japan. His kind of wrestling is the drop-kicking, body-slamming, jumping-off-the-top-rope style you see on television. News release. Dean of students candidates announced Six finalists have been named in the search for a new dean of students at Iowa State. News release.	Jill Lansing 'Wheel of Fortune' Iowa State junior and civil engineering major Jill Lansing from Cresco will be guessing letters and buying vowels on Wheel of Fortune Jan. 10 at 6:30 p.m. The program, which airs on TV station WH0 13 in central Iowa, is part of "Hollywood Walk of Fame Week" on the long-running game show. In the news Fashion with function USA Today Iowa State researchers are developing technology that will allow a purse to charge your electronic devices. See story.