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Wednesday, January 27 2010
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Iowa State's annual "Wildness, Wilderness" symposium slated for Jan. 29-31
Iowa State's annual symposium on "Wildness, Wilderness and the Creative Imagination" will seek to find beauty in a broken world Jan. 29 through 31.The event will feature authors,poets and filmmakers. They'll present readings, poetry performances, panel discussions, documentary films and live music related to this year's theme, "Things Fall Apart: Finding Beauty in a Broken World."
Iowa State sociologists find older adults turning to online options for love, marriage
"Remarkable Creatures" author Sean Carroll will speak at ISU on Feb. 10
Sean Carroll, an award-winning scientist, author and educator who writes a monthly science column for The New York Times, will present "Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origin of Species" at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 10, in the Memorial Union Great Hall. His book by the same title was a finalist for the 2009 National Book Award, nonfiction. Carroll has been featured on NPR's "Science Friday," and recently helped produce a PBS "NOVA" special on Charles Darwin. The talk, part of the university's National Affairs Series, is free and open to the public.
Budding student illustrators create drawings for new ISU weed identification guide
Some Iowa State University students are finding out that there's more to a blade of grass than meets the eye. The four seniors study biological and pre-medical illustration (BPMI). They've been asked to create technically accurate illustrations of several grass species for a Weed ID Guide to be published in March by the Corn and Soybean Initiative. The publication is part of a series of field guides widely used by agriculture and university professionals and growers to aid in-field crop management. BPMI is an undergraduate major in Iowa State's colleges of Design and Liberal Arts and Sciences for students who want to combine interests and aptitudes in science and art.
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.
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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