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Tuesday, June 7 2011
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Iowa States Baja SAE Team optimistic about this years off-road racer
The student-engineers of Iowa State's Baja SAE Team will
race their off-road buggy June 8-11 near Peoria, Ill. They
think they've solved some of the problems that slowed last
year's car during a four-hour endurance race. And so
they're optimistic they have a competitive car again this
year.
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ISU's Ann Thompson makes Tech & Learning magazine's 10 most influential people in ed tech
Sixth Street closed at University Boulevard
The stretch of Sixth Street between University Boulevard and the entrance to Brookside Park is closed for the next four weeks, starting June 3. The road's accompanying bike path also will be closed. Access to Brookside Park and the Ames High School baseball field is available only from the east.
Playing the shell game: ISU finance professors study the value of shell companies
Number of children living in poverty rising faster in Iowa than nation, says ISU researcher
David Peters from ISU's Department of Sociology analyzed U.S. Census Bureau data and compared Iowa's rates of poverty to the national figures. It turns out that the number of Iowa children in households with incomes below the poverty line is growing faster than the national average. In the past 10 years, poverty rates for Iowa's children have gone up 3.1 percent, while the national increase has been just 2.1 percent.
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Terry Besser, an Iowa State professor of sociology in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, is leading the project.
ISU sociologist leads research on the 'new destination towns' in the Great Plains
ISU Power Pullers team hopes for revenge in upcoming competition
ISU's Power Pullers will see how they measure up at the 14th Annual International ¼ Scale Tractor Student Design Competition, to be held June 2 to 5 in Peoria, Ill. This year's tractor is named Cy's Revenge after dissappointing results last year.
ISU Catt Center to present Ready to Run: Campaign Training for Women
In the news
Romneys in; Mormon faith still seen as hurdle
The 'inevitable' year of very deadly tornadoes
Huffington Post
La Niña may be responsible for this year's devastating tornadoes, says ISU Professor Bill Gallus, but the number of significant tornadoes (EF-2 or greater) has stayed the same or even fallen slightly over time. It's the destruction that is so extraordinary. "It seems strange to say, but it's bad luck," Gallus said. "It's a big coincidence that the tornadoes this year have been hitting fairly large cities."
Bachmann and Palin could compete for the same political ground
Bloomberg/San Francisco Chronicle
Sarah Palin's "One Nation Tour" is stirring speculation that she will enter the presidential race, in which she and Rep. Michele Bachmann would compete for much the same constituency.
"I think she is trying to make a preemptive strike to maybe convince Bachmann not to run," said Dianne Bystrom, director of ISU's Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics.