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Saturday, July 24 2010
News
Gold brings a smile to the face of Rachel Derscheid
ISU-based team wins Ultimate world championship in Czech Republic
A mostly Iowa State University team won the World Ultimate Club
Championships for the sport of Ultimate in Prague, Czech
Republic.
The team is called "The Chad Larson Experience" for a
friend of the team, and beat a Canadian team in the finals,
17-10.
Ultimate is a field game in which teams score by throwing a
flying disc to other players to advance down the field and
score. It was formerly known as Ultimate Frisbee.
Body discovered in university apartment; no foul play suspected
ISU Police found the body of Lucas Rueben Farlinger, 22, in his University Village apartment the night of July 20. Farlinger was a senior majoring in management information systems. No foul play is suspected. An autopsy has been scheduled to determine cause and manner of death.
Design students create ISU Farm Program Show display
Students in a College of Design studio took their ideas from
concept to reality, creating a new, interactive display for the
ISU Extension exhibit at the 2010 Farm Progress Show. They
developed a logo, signage and four main display components that
focus on soil. The exhibit, "Working together to care for
our land," will fill ISU's 120-by-50-foot building
during the annual event held this year in Boone, Aug. 31-Sept.
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ISU
Extension news release.
After the storm
Weekend storms destroyed 35 to 40 trees on campus and damaged 100 others that need to be trimmed, but can be saved, said Bob Currie, director of facilities services. Veenker Memorial Golf Course on the north side of campus was especially hard hit. Another 100 trees were damaged there, and 50 are a total loss. For more information on the continuing cleanup efforts, read the latest in Inside Iowa State.
An 'elemental' piece of chemistry
University Museums is installing a new public work of art by Seattle-based artist Norie Sato in Hach Hall, ISU's new chemistry building. Sato's piece is a large-scale environmental sculpture, titled "elemental." It's made from glass, aluminum and LED lights in multiple panels. You can view the sculpture from inside or outside the northwest area of Hach Hall, or get a preview here.
Iowa State's external funding hits record $388.2 million in FY 2010
Iowa State attracted a record $388.2 million in grants, contracts, gifts and cooperative agreements during fiscal year 2010, an increase of $83 million and 27 percent over last year's record.
Clearing the hurdles
Discover how ISU Vice President for Student Affairs Tom Hill earned a place in history at the 1972 Olympics, and how that experience has brought him success beyond athletics.
In the news
ISU class brings projects to Burning Man festival
Reno Gazette-Journal
Samantha Krukowski's Iowa State University class, "Shifting Sands: Transient Architectures in the Desert," is working on projects they will bring to the Burning Man festival in Black Rock City, Nev., at the end of August. It's the first time college students have been given such an assignment.
Jane Goodall: Urgent action needed to save chimps
our Amazing planet
These threats aren't unique to Gombe; they also threaten
chimpanzees in other parts of Africa, including those studied
by primatologist Jill Pruetz of Iowa State University.
See story.