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Tuesday, January 26 2010
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Students receive YMA Fashion Scholarship honors in New York City
Four Iowa State students have returned from a whirlwind trip to New York City where they received $5,000 scholarships and were recognized at a gala fashion industry dinner. The students -- all majors in apparel, merchandising, design and production -- are recipients of the prestigious Young Menswear Association (YMA) Fashion Scholarships for 2010-11. In addition to providing the scholarship and a three-day trip to New York, the YMA program recruits and nurtures the scholarship students to become the next generation of leaders in the fashion industry.
Iowa State, Ames Lab engineer works to develop better batteries for energy alternatives
Steffen Schmidt (left) works the Democratic National Convention as a political analyst for CNN en Español. Courtesy CNN
Iowa State political scientists preview Obama's first State of the Union address
University Museums receives original Rodin cast sculpture
The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation has gifted an original cast sculpture by French sculptor Auguste Rodin to the University Museums collection at Iowa State. "Saint John the Baptist Preaching" was created by Rodin in 1880. The sculpture will be installed in Morrill Hall and dedicated Friday, Jan. 29, at 5:30 p.m.
UPDATE: Help for Haiti clothing drive extended in new location
Mikelange Olbel, an ISU graduate student who's heading up a clothing drive for Haiti earthquake victims, has changed the location for the drive and extended it another week. Clothing donations will be accepted 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Jan. 25 to 29, at the Multicultural Student Affairs office, second floor, Student Services Building on the ISU campus.
Iowa State University researcher discovers Ebolas deadly secret
Iowa State University researcher Gaya Amarasinghe has led scientists to uncover how the deadly Zaire Ebola virus decoys cells and eventually kills them. He had previously solved the structure of a critical part of an Ebola protein known as VP35, which is involved in host immune suppression. Now he knows how VP35 is able to do it.
Iowa State administrators help develop a new private school of education in Indonesia
Former U.S. ambassador to Pakistan will speak at Iowa State on Jan. 27
Wendy Chamberlin, a 29-year veteran of the U.S. Foreign Service and former ambassador to Pakistan, will present "Can We Save the World?" at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 27 in the Memorial Union Great Hall. Chamberlin is president of the Middle East Institute. She previously directed civilian reconstruction programs in Iraq and Afghanistan, and development assistance programs in the Middle East and East Asia for USAID. The talk, part of the university's World Affairs Series, is free and open to the public.
Christina Gish Berndt
ISU researcher assesses ongoing fight over Native American sports names
Graham Spanier
Penn State President Spanier to give ISU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences 50th anniversary keynote
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Pundits agree: This is a golden age for people to have their say
When Dianne Bystrom was studying political communications nearly 20 years ago, the media landscape was shifting. Around-the-clock cable news was new, and Rush Limbaugh was becoming one of the country's most influential commentators.
Bystrom, now director of ISU's Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women in Politics, remembers her college professor writing a book on pundits.
U.S. kids consume media almost 8 hours a day
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