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Monday, December 21 2009
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Winter break hours in University Relations
The Office of University Relations, including News Service,
will be closed Dec. 24 through Jan. 3. This period includes
three university holidays, one weekend and a partial
university-wide shutdown Dec. 28-31 to help meet a state budget
reduction.
If you must reach a staff member over break, leave a message at
(515) 294-7958. This number will be checked periodically
throughout the break period.
Following is the schedule:
•Dec. 24-25: University holidays, office closed
•Dec. 26-27: Weekend, office closed
•Dec. 28-31: Office closed
•Jan. 1: University holiday, office closed
•Jan. 2-3: Weekend, office closed
Iowa State entrepreneurship professor offers advice for starting a small business in 2010
Howard Van Auken, the Bob and Kay Smith Fellow in Entrepreneurship at Iowa State University, offers advice for starting a small business in 2010.
Iowa State, Ames Laboratory researchers named AAAS Fellows for distinguished work
Four Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory researchers have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for their distinguished work in materials science, chemistry and agronomy.
125 years of student health care at Iowa State
The gritty 125-year history of the student health center includes tales of altruistic doctors who juggled such duties as football coach, professor or sanitation inspector.
Wild chimps have near human understanding of fire, says study by ISU's Pruetz
Catching up with ISU's cuisine queen
ISU's Madison Mayberry, who caught culinary attention when she won The Rachael Ray Show's "Hey, Can You Cook?" contest, has a brand-new journalism degree. She's putting her education to use blogging, cooking and working for Better Homes and Gardens.
ISU faculty address how to re-tool business education to prevent another collapse
Bowl bound
The Cyclones will take on Minnesota at the Insight Bowl on Dec. 31 at 5 p.m. central time in Tempe, Ariz. Ticket and travel information for the New Year's Eve football game is at Cyclones.com.
Photo by Chip Clark, Smithsonian Institution
Chimps' spear from Pruetz discovery to be in Smithsonian
In the news
Talking about how chimps react to fire
National Geographic Weekend
Iowa State anthropology professor Jill Pruetz was
interviewed by Boyd Matson about her latest study on how
chimpanzees at her Fongoli research site in Senegal understand
and react to wildfires in the region.
9 most provocative sex studies of 2009
LiveScience, MSNBC.com
ISU researcher on cover of journal Science
Research by Adam Bogdanove, associate professor of plant pathology at Iowa State University, is featured on the cover of the Dec. 11 issue of the journal Science. Bogdanove and Matthew Moscou, a student in the bioinformatics and computation biology graduate program, have discovered how a group of proteins from plant pathogenic bacteria interact with DNA in the plant cell, opening up the possibility for what Bogdanove calls a "cascade of advances." The cover image is a micrograph taken by Bogdanove and Harry "Jack" Horner, a University Professor of genetics development and cell biology, and director of the Microscopy and Nanoimaging Facility. Science is the journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.