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Thursday, May 19 2011
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Iowa State engineer scales up process that could improve economics of ethanol production
Iowa State's Hans van Leeuwen and a team of researchers
have built a pilot plant to test a process designed to improve
ethanol production. They're growing fungi on some of
ethanol's leftovers to make a quality animal feed and to
clean water so it can be recycled back into fuel production.
The researchers think the fungi could also be developed into a
low-cost nutritional supplement for people.
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Political experts provide Iowa insight on this summer's evolving GOP presidential race
Off to the races
Tanner Whitten, right, the driver of the No. 85 Iowa State-sponsored K&N Pros Series racer, helps load up the car after a campus stop. The car is promoting Iowa State's long history of biofuels research and development. It will race at the Iowa Speedway on Saturday, May 21. Larger image.
ISU landscape architecture students and Mitchellville prison inmates and staff collaborate on new prison's grounds
Softball field ... butterfly garden ... yoga space ... greenhouse ... amphitheater. Sounds like a city park, right? Nope. How about the grounds of Iowa's new women's prison? At least that's the vision of some Iowa State landscape architecture students, based on their research and discussions this spring with offenders and staff from the Iowa Correctional Institution for Women in Mitchellville. They've worked together for the past three months, thinking outside the box of typical prison landscape design to envision something truly unique. And everyone is pretty pumped about what they've come up with.
ISU's Gentile addresses multiple dimensions of video game effects in new journal article
ISU Catt Center to present Ready to Run: Campaign Training for Women
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Iowa State meteorology students volunteer in Alabama
WAFF-TV
Huntsville, Ala.
The minute finals were over, a group of Iowa State students drove 800 miles to tornado-ravaged Alabama, where they are helping to clean up the hardest-hit areas. "All these other majors have labs. Chemistry has their own labs and industrial engineering has its own labs. We...just have a professor teaching us. Looking around at all the people displaced around their homes -- they can't teach that in a classroom. You have to live it to believe it," says ISU student Tristan Morath.