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Tuesday, October 11 2011
News
Student artists will use construction steamroller to make woodcut prints Oct. 14 in Ames
Eighteen ISU College of Design students and students from Augustana College will create large-format woodcut prints with a construction steamroller from about 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, Oct. 14, at Rueter's, 5815 W. Lincoln Way, Ames. This is the 10th year for the steamroller printmaking event. The public is invited to watch the process. Rain date is Oct. 21. The large prints resulting from the steamroller printmaking session will be displayed Oct. 31 - Nov. 11 in the College of Design's atrium, the Lyle E. Lightfoot Forum.
ISU plant pathologist updates science community on groundbreaking research
In the two years since the journal Science published an article by ISU's Adam Bogdanove about his groundbreaking gene research, scientists around the world have built on those findings to explore further breakthroughs. Now Bogdanove updates the scientific community on where the research has been since 2009 and where it is heading.
Troxel Hall groundbreaking set for Oct. 21
The groundbreaking ceremony for Troxel Hall, Iowa State University's newest classroom auditorium, will be held Friday, Oct. 21, at 4 p.m. The ceremony will be held on Farm House Lane between Agronomy Hall and the Horticulture Greenhouse Complex.
On a recent trip to Ghana to finalize the Dietetics Internship details, Erin Bergquist, (left); Jean Anderson, (middle, kneeling); and Grace Marquis (back right) met with representatives from the University of Ghana.
ISUs dietetic internship is first in nation to go international with new Ghana program
Iowa State University's Dietetics Internship program, already the country's largest, will be the first in the nation to offer an international component. ISU interns will have the option of working in Ghana beginning in January.
ISU political academics get front row seat to presidential campaign every four years
As long as Iowa continues to
host its first-in-the-nation caucuses -- allowing Iowans to
cast the first votes in the presidential nominating process
every four years -- Iowa State University faculty will have a
front row seat to the campaign. Three ISU political
scientists discuss that rare inside view and the unique
opportunity it presents them in their research and
teaching.
Presidential
campaign site.
Iowa State researchers help detect very-high-energy gamma rays from Crab pulsar
Iowa State University researchers helped design and build the
$20 million instrument that allowed astrophysicists to discover
the first very-high-energy gamma rays from a pulsar. The
discovery is reported in the Oct. 7 issue of the journal
Science.
News
release.
Iowa State, Ames Laboratory, Technion scientist wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry
The Nobel Foundation today announced Dan Shechtman of Iowa State University, the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory and Israel's Technion has won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The foundation announced The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences picked Shechtman "for the discovery of quasicrystals."
ISU study finds Iowa's local housing trust funds respond well to affordable housing demand amid rising poverty
Iowa's State Housing Trust Fund is responding well to the demand for affordable housing in the state, according to an Iowa State University study. However, during the eight years of the program's existence, roughly 70,000 more Iowans tumbled into poverty, creating an affordable housing need that is unmet - and largely unknown. The Iowa Finance Authority commissioned the ISU College of Design's Department of Community and Regional Planning to conduct the study, which provides an overview and analysis of the state's Local Housing Trust Fund Program.
ISU's Pease Family Scholar to address physical fitness and mental health on Oct. 13
First Iowa Conference on Human Trafficking coming to Iowa State on Oct. 26
Lee Hamilton to discuss U.S. foreign policy in ISU Manatt-Phelps Lecture
In the news
Report is too quick to write off biofuels
The Des Moines Register
A recently released National Academy of Sciences report
concludes that advanced biofuels made from cellulosic biomass
(crop residues, grasses, and wood chips) will not be
economically feasible without heavy subsidies or high petroleum
prices. While the report is correct in concluding that advanced
biofuels are not sufficiently developed to immediately make
significant contributions to the supply of transportation
fuels, the report is flawed in concluding that no biofuel
pathway has prospects for standing on its own without heavy
government support.
See essay by Robert C. Brown and Tristan Brown.
Florida moves up presidential primary