News Archive
Thursday, April 22 2010
News
Friends, family remember Lacina
Friends and family gathered on the lawn outside the College of Design April 22 to remember Jon Lacina. The graphics design student was the focus of an exhaustive search after he was reported missing from campus in late January. His body was found April 14 in an outlying building on a former Dairy Barn south of campus. On Thursday, members of the ISU community joined Lacina's parents Tom and Alesia, and brother Joe in a ceremony and the planting of a red oak tree in Jon's honor. Many in the crowd lined up to put a spade of soil around the tree that will grace the west lawn of Design.
A memorial Mass will be celebrated at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Grinnell at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, April 23.
ISU study finds earnings disparity for women following community college education
Lilly Ledbetter, fair pay activist, will speak on campus Friday
Lilly Ledbetter, whose name graces the the first bill President Barack Obama signed into law, will speak at Iowa State on Friday, April 23, at 7:30 p.m. in the Memorial Union Sun Room. The former tire worker became an activist after the Supreme Court ruled against the pay equity lawsuit she'd won almost a decade before. In January 2009, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act became law, restoring the long-standing interpretation of civil rights laws and policies that allows employees to challenge any discriminatory paycheck they receive. Ledbetter's lecture is free and open to the public. For details and a list of sponsors, go to the Lectures Program website.
ISU Seed Science Center, University of Nairobi to establish African seed institute
Through a $4.49 million grant from AGRA, Iowa State University's Seed Science Center, the University of Nairobi (UoN), the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center and private business experts are establishing a Seed Enterprise Management Institute at the College of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences in Kabete, Kenya.
Iowa States tornado research is museum quality in the Windy City
Iowa State University tornado researchers are included in the new $34 million, 26,000-square-foot Science Storms exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago. Photo by J.B. Spector, Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago.
ISU sociologist works with USAID task force on rebuilding education in Haiti
Rebuilding Haiti's agricultural and educational
institutions after a severe earthquake struck the nation Jan.
12 will be the focus of a U.S. government task force that
includes Iowa State University sociologist Cornelia Flora.
Flora has been named to the Task Force on Haiti, with the goal
of figuring out how to rebuild the country's universities
and other institutions so they can improve how agriculture is
done in the Caribbean nation.
Dr. Stephen Juelsgaard Creates Endowed Deanship in College of Veterinary Medicine
An endowed dean's chair has been established in Iowa State University's College of Veterinary Medicine thanks to a $3 million commitment from Dr. Stephen G. Juelsgaard of Woodside, Calif. The endowed fund will provide perpetual funding for college priorities and will be administered by the dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine.
Two ISU landscape architecture seniors win international competition for park design
Landscape architecture seniors Andrew Kraemer and Adam Olson won the Park Pride International Student Design Competition and will share the $1,000 cash prize. The two created their 'Knoll Park" design in William Grundmann's community design studio. There were 33 entries in the competition. Olson, of Hudson, and Kraemer, of St. Louis, created their design, "Knoll Park," last fall in Associate Professor William Grundmann's community design studio. Classmate Stacie Ellickson, Boone, won an honorable mention for her design, "Loblolly Ridge Park."
Five Iowa State graduate programs score among the top 20 in U.S. News rankings
Iowa State University graduate programs in agricultural engineering, higher education administration, analytical chemistry, statistics and printmaking rank among the country's top programs, according to the latest "America's Best Graduate Schools" rankings by U.S. News and World Report magazine.
Culinary science students proudly display the dishes they prepared for diners this week in the Union Drive Marketplace.
Culinary science students create new ISU Dining recipes through new class, internships
Hira makes Money Sense with NYSE Euronext
Iowa State College of Business to host Big 12 MBA Case Competition April 23-24
Iowa State's College of Business will host this year's Big 12 MBA Case Competition on Friday and Saturday, April 23-24. Teams representing nearly all the schools in the Big 12 Conference will analyze a Harvard-style general business policy/strategic management case and present their findings and recommendations to a panel of judges.
ISU English professor authors critically-acclaimed Iraq War novel
ISU listed as one of 15 'fantastic higher education values'
TheStreet.com lists Iowa State University among 15 schools that offer high-quality higher education at an affordable price.
Iowa State's Anderson returns to space
Clayton Anderson, who earned an Iowa State University master's degree in aerospace engineering in 1983, returned from his second trip to space on April 20. He blasted into space aboard Space Shuttle Discovery early Monday, April 5. Anderson did three spacewalks during the two-week Mission STS-131 to the International Space Station. In 2007, Anderson spent five months at the space station.
- See mission photos here.
- See a VISIONS magazine Q&A here.
- See Anderson's preflight interview here.
- Watch the launch of Discovery here.
- Watch Anderson return to the International Space Station here.
- Watch Anderson and the STS-131 crew bid farewell to the International Space Station here.
- Watch Discovery land here.
- Watch highlights of Mission STS-131 here.
- Follow Anderson on Twitter here.
In the news
ISU students travel to Africa to build stoves
The Des Moines Register
Iowa State engineering students will travel to Mali next month to build cleaner-burning stoves. Their hope is to reduce health problems, save lives and impact climate change in one of the poorest countries on the planet.