News Archive
Wednesday, November 18 2009
News
Just in the time for holiday shoppers: Hira offers advice on breaking credit addiction
ISU Dairy Products Evaluation Team returns, places in national contest
Iowa State University's Dairy Products Evaluation Team placed fourth overall in the 88th Collegiate Dairy Products Evaluation contest in a national student competition in Glenview, Ill. The team also placed third in individual categories of cottage cheese, Cheddar cheese and butter.
Two more H1N1 clinics scheduled; most students are eligible to receive vaccine
Story County Public Health has scheduled public H1N1
vaccination clinics in Ames on Nov. 19 and Nov. 23. The clinics
will be held Thursday, Nov. 19, from 3 to 6 p.m. at Cornerstone
Church, 56829 Highway 30; and on Monday, Nov. 23 from 1 to 5
p.m. at the Scheman Building, rooms 260-262, on the Iowa State
campus. Persons age six months to 24 years remain among the
priority groups eligible to receive the H1N1 vaccine;
vaccinations are free.
Swander, poetry classes creating a tactile and audible show for Iowa Department for the Blind
Iowa State engineers develop 3-D software to give doctors, students a view inside the body
Iowa State staff search decades-old paper records to identify Gold Star Hall honorees
Iowa State scientist develops lab machine to study glacial sliding related to rising sea levels
Neal Iverson has created a glacier in a freezer that could help scientists understand how glaciers slide across their beds. That could help researchers predict how climate change accelerates glacier sliding and contributes to rising sea levels.
New federal funding to help ISU scientists build national youth prevention network
Iowa State University researcher discovers key to vital DNA, protein interaction
Adam Bogdanove, associate professor in plant pathology, was researching the molecular basis of bacterial diseases of rice when he discovered how a group of proteins from plant pathogenic bacteria interact with DNA in the plant cell, opening up the possibility for what the scientist calls a "cascade of advances."
ISU researchers findings bring hope for possible Parkinsons disease cure
Researchers at Iowa State University have found an essential
key to possibly cure Parkinson's disease and are looking
for others.
Anumantha Kanthasamy has been working to understand the complex
mechanisms of the disease for more than a decade and thinks he
has found hope for the cure.
