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Wednesday, January 5 2011
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Iowa State anthropologist Pruetz to be guest on NPR's "Talk of the Nation" Thursday
Jill Pruetz (above), an Iowa State associate professor of
anthropology, is a guest during the second hour of National
Public Radio's "Talk of the Nation" program on
Thursday, Jan. 6, starting at 2 p.m. Iowa time. It can be heard
on Iowa Public Radio (locally, WOI-AM, 640), and through the
show's NPR website. The segment is titled,
"Exploration in the 21st Century: What's Left to
Explore?" and will be broadcast live from the stage of
National Geographic's Grosvenor Auditorium in Washington,
D.C.
News
release.
Iowa State among Kiplinger's best values
Iowa State University is among the 100 top values in public higher education, according to Kiplinger magazine. Iowa State is 80th on the Kiplinger list. The ranking, released Jan. 4, considers admission and graduation rates, average cost per year, average need-based and non-need-based financial aid, and average debt at graduation. Kiplinger says the 100 schools "deliver a stellar education at an affordable price."
University Researchers: Climate change is affecting how Iowans live and work
A report authored by researchers at Iowa's three public
universities says climate change is already affecting the way
Iowans live and work. Legislation approved in April 2009 asked
university researchers to study the effects of climate change
on Iowa and report back to the governor and the Legislature.
The report makes seven policy recommendations that begin to
protect the state's economy, environment and residents from
changes in climate.
News release.
ISUs landscape architecture program in top 10 nationally
Iowa State's undergraduate landscape architecture program
tied for eighth in the nation, according to a new survey of
practitioners by DesignIntelligence, a bimonthly publication
for leaders in design professions. The magazine's annual
report, "America's Best Architecture and Design
Schools," is the only national college ranking survey that
focuses exclusively on design. There are 47 accredited
landscape architecture programs in the U.S.
News
release.
Iowa State University aerospace engineer and Goodrich partner to develop next-generation fuel nozzle diagnostic systems
Hui Hu, an Iowa State University associate professor of
aerospace engineering, is working with engineers from the
Goodrich Corp. to test and characterize the next generation of
fuel nozzles. The joint project is supported by a $78,305 grant
from the Grow Iowa Values Fund, a state economic development
program.
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release.
Iowa State graphic design students team up with Chicago's Field Museum
Design by Alana Wagner.
Graphic Design Associate Professor Lisa Fontaine's
Exhibition Design class has worked with the Field Museum
exhibition design director for the past two semesters. This
semester her students worked on designs for a traveling exhibit
on ants. Iowa State is one of only a handful of schools in the
country that teach the art and science of designing exhibits
that communicate, educate and entertain in museums and trade
shows throughout the world.
News
release.
Iowa State, Ames Lab physicist developing, improving designer optical materials
Costas Soukoulis of Iowa State University and the Ames Laboratory writes about the development of optical metamaterials in the latest issue of the journal Science. He writes advanced fabrication techniques may make the man-made materials a practical way to control light for superlenses and other applications.
New book gives rare view of earliest prostitution
In the news
Researchers: Iowa must plan for climate change
KCCI-TV
Angie Hunt of KCCI-TV interviews Iowa State researchers about a report on climate change they helped prepare for Iowa lawmakers.
Biofuels Digest 2010 Awards
Biofuels Digest
The Digest recognizes Iowa State University as Institutional Research Facility of the Year .... Iowa State's BioCentury Research Farm provides researchers with the opportunity to integrate harvesting, transportation, storage, and processing, as well as test plant breeding, genomics, cropping systems, soil conservation and nutrient management.
Job market evolves into spot market
The search for better nozzles
Wired.com's Autopia blog
Automakers aren't the only ones looking to increase fuel
efficiency and decrease emissions. Aircraft manufacturers are
facing similar requirements, and they're using high-tech
gadgetry to help them meet those goals.
See story.
Ethanol gets a boost; Will it return the favor?
2010 Electronic Design Engineering Hall of Fame
Electronic Design
Who built the first digital electronic computer? You could make a case for John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry, whose ABC was the first device to use binary digits to represent data and perform calculations electronically, not mechanically.