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Monday, October 11 2010
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Memorial services set for Sam Kruger
Samuel "Sam" Kruger, 20, of Sibley, an ISU student majoring in civil engineering, died Friday night, Oct. 8, due to injuries sustained in an auto accident in O'Brien County. Memorial services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 12, at the Tabernacle Baptist Church in George, Iowa. Visitation is from 2 to 8 p.m. today (Oct. 11), with the family present from 6 to 8 p.m., at Jurrens Funeral Home, Sibley.
Wells Fargo Home Mortgage Co-President Heiden to present Nov. 2 Stafford Lecture
Fitting launch for new facility
A little chemical wizardry cooked up by a student group provided a fitting launch Friday for Hach Hall, Iowa State's new chemistry facility. The three-story building provides lab space and technology to perform research and improve undergrad learning. The facility was funded with a state appropriation and private gifts and is named after Kathryn Hach Darrow, her late husband, Clifford Hach and the extended Hach family, who joined the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust, Muscatine, and many others in providing gifts. Tending to the fire are (from left): Bruce Hach, Troy Ross (of the Carver Trust), Dean of the Liberal Arts and Sciences College Michael Whiteford, ISU President Gregory Geoffroy and Kathryn Hach Darrow. The Society of Chemistry Undergraduate Majors (SCUM) concocted the flashy "ribbon-cutting."
ISU educator addresses community college retention; promotes online transfer calculator
Bioasphalt® developed at Iowa State to be used, tested on Des Moines bike trail
Bioasphalt® developed by Iowa State University's Christopher Williams and produced by Avello Bioenergy Inc., a company started by three Iowa State graduates, will be tested on a Des Moines bicycle trail. Williams said asphalt mixtures derived from plants and trees could replace petroleum-based mixes. And that could provide markets for Iowa crop residues and business opportunities for Iowans.
Renowned landscape architect to speak Oct. 19
Andrea Cochran, the principal of Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture in San Francisco, will present the 2010 P.H. Elwood Lecture in Landscape Architecture on Tuesday, Oct. 19, at Iowa State. Her presentation, "Immersive Landscapes," will be at 6 p.m. in Kocimski Auditorium, College of Design. It is free and open to the public. Cochran's work is known for its careful consideration of site, climate and existing architecture. She strives for a seamless integration of landscape, art and architecture that blurs the line between the natural and built environments. The lecture series honors the legacy of professor Philip H. Elwood, who is credited with developing the ISU Department of Landscape Architecture.
Quinn Weninger
New fisheries system will save about $20 million, Iowa State University researchers find
Some fisheries in the United States are poised to undergo major changes in the regulations used to protect fish stocks, and Quinn Weninger and Rajesh Singh have estimated that the new system will be an economic boon to the fishing industry. The two estimated harvesting costs under the old system and compared that to the newly proposed fishing regulations that lift many restrictions that cause inefficiency while still limiting amounts to be harvested.
Iowa State senior conducted research in Rome and presents it in China this week
Senior Emily Zimmerman could have graduated in three years.
Instead, she will graduate in four with a second major that has
enabled her to conduct research last summer in Rome and present
it this week in China. Zimmerman, who majors in biology and
global resource systems, is presenting her research poster,
"A Review of the Current Status of Agrobiodiversity
Monitoring Systems," at the Managing Biodiversity for
Sustainable Development Conference at Yunnan Agricultural
University in Kunming, China.
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