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NewsIowa State University soil judging team wins national competitionA team of ISU students finished first in the 2007 American Society of Agronomy National Collegiate Soil Judging Contest. Cyclones in second round of mascot challengeThe Cyclones are in the second round of the lighthearted "most dominant college mascot" tourney sponsored by CBS SportsLine.com. The Cyclones face the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers in the latest online vote, which is under way now. Voting ends May 4. Science Bound program is part of 'Learners to Leaders' allianceThrough a new alliance with Iowa State's Science Bound program, Smithfield Foods has launched a five-year, $296,000 partnership to help disadvantaged youth prepare for science-related college degrees. The program, which will benefit students in the Denison Community School District, begins in October. 
Musical wins grad student national honorJoe Hynek, a Ph.D. candidate in mechanical engineering, recently won second place in the National Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival playwright competition. He was recognized for the book and music he wrote for a musical about life on the farm during the '80s farm crisis. Hynek also is the inventor of the "Solarjo Power Purse," a purse that recharges the batteries in portable electronic devices. Mascot challengeIn a bracket challenge similar to the NCAA tourney, mascots from 64 schools are facing off to determine the "most dominant mascot." The Cyclones face the Saint Louis Billiken in the first round of online voting, which ends Friday. Community discussion on the Virginia Tech tragedyISU's Educational Leadership and Policy Studies department, the Center for American Intercultural Studies, and "Cyclones for Hokies" will host a discussion from noon to 1:30 p.m. today (April 24) to discuss "Learning from the Virginia Tech Tragedy: A Community Response." The discussion will be in the Campanile Room, Memorial Union. All are welcome. Cookies and lemonade will be provided. ISU team receives $2.5 million NIH grant to study exercise, flu resistance in elderlyThe National Institutes of Health has awarded ISU Associate Professor of Health and Human Performance Marian Kohut and her research team $2.5 million over the next five years to continue their research on the role of exercise in aging and resistance to influenza infection. Cake-batter ice cream out of the lineupThe ISU Dairy Science Club will play it safe during the university's 150th birthday kickoff Saturday (April 21) by replacing its cake-flavored sesquicentennial ice cream with vanilla with cardinal and gold sprinkles. Servings of chocolate, plain vanilla, strawberry, Oreo and Snickers also will be served. Udderly unbeatable -ISU Dairy Challenge team wins national competitionThe Iowa State team took a first place in the annual national Dairy Challenge competition held this year at South Dakota State University, Brookings. Statement from Regents President Gartner regarding campus security issuesCinnamon roll ice cream anyone?Students in FSHN 412, Dyscovry Foods, Inc., unveil new food products they've formulated, tested, processed, and packaged this semester in their senior capstone course. Iowa State astrophysicists provide the eyes for new gamma ray telescope systemIowa State researchers built the four cameras for the VERITAS telescope system in Arizona. The new $20 million telescope system detects gamma rays and will help astrophysicists explore distant regions of space, look for evidence of dark matter and help explain the origins of the most energetic radiation in the universe. Statement from President Geoffroy regarding counseling servicesISU's Morrill Hall to be rededicated April 20The newly renovated Morrill Hall will be rededicated on Friday, April 20, at 11 a.m. The ceremony will be held on central campus, just across the street from Morrill. Statement from President Gregory Geoffroy in regard to Virginia Tech tragedyIowa State, Iowa join two Midwest universities to create high-speed data networkIowa State University, the University of Iowa, the University of Minnesota and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have created a high-speed optical network that will allow researchers to share massive amounts of data with collaborators around the world. Iowa State artist: When it comes to inventing furniture, I foldWith help from friends in Japan, Michigan, Florida and Ames, local artist Fumi Ikeshima creates origami chair. Iowa State physicist leads team designing detector for international particle colliderJohn Hauptman, an Iowa State University professor of physics and astronomy, is leading an international team that's designing a detector for the proposed International Linear Collider. The collider would be about 19 miles long and accelerate electrons and positrons to nearly the speed of light. The particles would collide at the center of the machine at extremely high energies. Collider detectors would record those collisions. Physicists expect the collisions to create new particles and help them understand how the universe works. Iowa State's Women's Rugby Club headed to nationals for first timeThe Iowa State Women's Rugby club is teeming with confidence as it prepares to travel to Sanford, Fla., to take part in the USA Rugby Women's Collegiate National Championships April 21-22. White House reporter for Washington Post to speak at First Amendment DayPeter Baker of the Washington Post will present his lecture "Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin and Russian Counter-Revolution" at 6 p.m. Monday, April 16 in the Sun Room, Memorial Union as the opening speaker of the First Amendment Day activities on campus. Nationally ranked ISU Paintball team heads to nationals with high expectationsIowa State's nationally ranked paintball team is going to the College Paintball National Championships to be held April 20-22 in Dallas. Saturday Veishea crowd offers research opportunity for three ISU accounting professorsProfessors William Dilla, Diane Janvrin, and Cynthia Jeffrey will be conducting an online investing simulation Saturday in the Gerdin Business Building, just east of the Sesquicentennial Veishea Village on central campus. The simulations will take place during 30-minute sessions that run every half-hour from 12:30 until 4 p.m. Veishea, sesqui planners join Geoffroy on "Talk"President Gregory Geoffroy will be joined by Veishea co-chairs Nate Johansen and Christina Dvorak, and executive assistant to the president and member of the sesquicentennial planning committee Tahira Hira during the April 17 edition of Talk of Iowa. The live, call-in show airs from 11 a.m. to noon on WOI-AM 640. 
Left, ConocoPhillips senior vice president for technology Ryan Lance announces the new program. Right, Board of Regents member Ruth Harkin, Iowa Gov. Chet Culver, ISU Biorenewables Program leader Robert Brown and Lance. ConocoPhillips establishes $22.5 million biofuels research program at Iowa StateConocoPhillips will establish an eight-year, $22.5 million research program at Iowa State University dedicated to developing technologies that produce biorenewable fuels. The grant is part of ConocoPhillips' plan to create joint research programs with major universities to produce viable solutions to diversify America's energy sources. Helen Thomas keynotes Iowa State's First Amendment Day activitiesIn celebration of this year's First Amendment Day activities at Iowa State University, Helen Thomas, former White House Bureau Chief for United Press International and now Hearst Newspapers columnist, will give a presentation in the Great Hall, Memorial Union, Thursday, April 19 at 8 p.m. ISU Boxing Club performs well at regionals, will advance four to nationalsFour boxers from Iowa State University Boxing Club will advance to the nationals competition in Reno, Nev., April 12-14. New display at Reiman Gardens highlights role of bees, pollinationReiman Gardens in Ames is opening an exhibit called "Bee-Aware" that explains the role of bees and pollinators in plant-life cycles. The show will run from April 12 through July 1. Ames Lab researchers rethink zincAmes Lab physicists Paul Canfield and Sergei Bud'ko have discovered a new family of zinc compounds that can be tuned, or manipulated, to take on some of the physical properties and behavior of other materials. News conference to announce grant for biorenewables research programIowa State University and an international energy company will announce a multi-million dollar grant that will expand the university's biorenewables research. A news conference will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, April 10, in Rooms 167-179 of the Scheman Building at the Iowa State Center. Runners, eaters to make strides together during ISU fundraiserThe ISU Triathlon Club is holding its sixth annual Donut Run April 15 at 9 a.m. at Brookside Park, in Ames. The event is a fund-raiser to help defray costs so the club can compete in the Collegiate National Championship Triathlon in Alabama. Funeral set for Abel BolanosThe visitation and funeral for ISU student Abel Bolanos will be held in Rolling Meadows, Ill., on April 9. 
Abel Bolanos Body of missing student found on campusThe body of missing Iowa State University sophomore Abel Bolanos, 19, was found on campus the afternoon of April 3. The student's death remains under investigation. Preliminary autopsy results revealed; probe continuesInvestigation continues regarding the death of Abel Bolanos, an ISU student whose body was found Tuesday afternoon. Preliminary results from the autopsy indicated that Bolanos died as a result of accidental drowning. Final determination of the cause and manner of death is pending the results of medical tests. Candlelight vigil scheduled, counseling availableA vigil in memory of Abel Bolanos will be at 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 4, on the south campanile lawn. Counseling services are available by calling (515) 294-5056.
Abel Bolanos Updates on the search for missing studentSearchers discovered a body in Lake LaVerne late Tuesday, April 3, while looking for missing ISU sophomore Abel Bolanos. The body has not been positively identified.
Abel Bolanos Updates on the search for missing studentBody discovered in Lake LaVerne, no positive identification ... President Geoffroy issues statement ... Volunteers join trained searchers Tuesday (April 3) ... Bolanos' sister asks public for help. Volunteers sought for April 3 searchThe search for ISU sophomore Abel Bolanos, 19, continues as teams of students and other volunteers join together Tuesday (April 3) with trained searchers from the STAR 1 team, Civil Air Patrol and local law enforcement in the effort. ALERT: Police seek person who turned in student's credit, debit cardsA credit card and debit card belonging to missing ISU student Abel Bolanos were turned in to an Ames bank on Monday. Police are seeking any information about the person who found and turned in those cards. ISU Police ask that the individual who turned in the cards call ISU Police immediately at 515-294-4428. Sister of missing student asks for helpThe sister of missing Abel Bolanos asked the public for assistance in finding the ISU sophomore who disappeared in the early morning hours of Saturday, March 31. "Please help us find my brother," Marivelle Bolanos said during a media briefing outside Wallace Hall, where Bolanos lived. "This not like him at all, so we are very concerned."
Abel Bolanos Assistance sought in locating missing studentIowa State University Police have issued a missing persons alert and are seeking assistance in locating a student who has not been seen since the early morning hours of Saturday, March 31, 2007. Abel M. Bolanos, age 19, was last seen at approximately 4:00 to 4:30 a.m. on March 31. He was seen leaving an apartment at 208 South Hyland and walking south on Hyland. Update on Abel Bolanos disappearance scheduled for 5 p.m. todayIowa State University officials will provide updates on the search for missing ISU sophomore Abel Bolanos at 5 p.m. today (April 2) outside Wallace Hall in the Towers residence hall complex. ISU Police Commander Gene Deisinger, Dean of Students Dione Somerville, and Marivelle Bolanos, Abel's sister, plan to speak at the briefing.The search for Bolanos continues at this hour in neighborhoods south of campus. First study reporting chimps using caves authored by ISU anthropologistISU Assistant Professor of Anthropology Jill Pruetz authored a paper titled "Evidence of Cave Use by Savanna Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) at Fongoli, Senegal: Implications for Behavioral Thermoregulation," which is the first study to document regular chimpanzee cave use. Forget 'the talk' -- ISU researcher recommends regular dialogue with kids about sexISU Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies Ronald Werner-Wilson studied teens, their parents and sex for his book and two related papers published in professional journals. He advises parents to have an ongoing dialogue with their children about sexuality -- a long process that should begin much earlier than the teen years. Iowa State celebrates undergraduate research projects at symposiumUndergraduate students will showcase research projects from 8 a.m. to noon, April 11, in the Pioneer Room, Memorial Union. The event is free and open to the public. NPR interviewer to bring a little fresh air to Iowa State presentationTerry Gross of National Public Radio will speak at Stephens Auditorium on the Iowa State campus at 8 p.m. on April 9. The event is free and open to the public. Kirschenmann on "The Splendid Table"Leopold Center Distinguished Fellow Fred Kirschenmann is scheduled to be a guest on the nationally syndicated radio show, The Splendid Table hosted by Lynne Rossetto Kasper. Kirschenmann will discuss spring planting rituals and spring holidays as they relate to food and eating. The show, produced for American Public Media, will air on WOI-AM at from 2 to 3 p.m. on Saturday, April 7 and 11 a.m. to noon on Sunday, April 8. This will be Kirschenmann's second interview on the show. Symposium April 18 to consider risks, benefits and regulations of ag biotechA USDA official, a Syngenta technical consultant and leading ag biotech researchers will be among the speakers at the fourth annual symposium of Iowa State's Biosafety Institute for Genetically Modified Agricultural Products (BIGMAP) April 18. U.S. News ranks Iowa State graduate programs among the top 25 public programsIowa State graduate programs in engineering, the sciences and education rank among the country's top 25 public programs, according to U.S. News and World Report magazine. |
Iowa State University to graduate more than 3,000 in May 4-5 ceremoniesThis weekend, 3,005 students will graduate from Iowa State University during spring commencement events. 
Birthday kickoffIowa State kicked off a year-long celebration of its 150th birthday with a 20,000-piece birthday cake April 21. 
Lots of cakeIowa State will kick off a year-long celebration of its 150th birthday with a 20,000-piece birthday cake that will be served at Beardshear Hall the afternoon of April 21. 
The fun starts April 21Fittingly, the kickoff for Iowa State's year-long birthday celebration begins at Veishea, one of ISU's oldest traditions. Here's what you need to know about the exhibits, fun foods, parade route, kid-friendly stops and more. In the newsA child's placeThe Financial Times Gardens can be designed to help stimulate children physically and mentally. Cindy Haynes, ISU associate professor of horticulture offers ideas for designing a child's garden in The Financial Times. With big money flowing to biofuels research, universities vie to harvest energy from cropsThe Chronicle of Higher Education The brown and black stalks of switch grass, miscanthus and kenaf are not much to look at, having weathered Iowa's winter snows. But Iowa State researchers see these crops as seeds of change in alternative fuels. Chimps spotted using cavesMSNBC Savannah chimpanzees, which can make weapons to hunt other primates for meat, can also seek refuge in caves, much like our earliest human ancestors, according to new findings by Primatologist Jill Pruetz at Iowa State University. Faking it like a manWired Wired magazine features six cool virtual reality simulators, including photographs of the C6 at Iowa State's Virtual Reality Applications Center. ISU veterinary lab investigates pet deathsNew York Times Suspicious pet deaths are under investigation at ISU's Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory. Some could have been caused by a toxin, perhaps from recalled pet food, said Patrick Halbur, professor and chair of veterinary diagnostic and production animal medicine. Coach of the yearISU wrestling coach Cael Sanderson is RevWrestling.com's coach of the year. Medders draftedCyclone point guard Lyndsey Medders was taken by the Indiana Fever in the 22nd pick in the WNBA draft. |
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