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Monday, December 5 2011
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Cyclone Battalion at ISU named best Army ROTC program in Midwestern brigade
The Cyclone Army ROTC Battalion has been named the top program in the 3rd Brigade. The award is based on overall training performance and success at the annual Leadership Development and Assessment Course, and commissioning excellence. The 3rd Brigade includes Army ROTC programs at more than 40 schools in the Midwest.
ISU scientists part of US-Japan team set to research gene chemistry to enhance biofuel, biochemical technology
An Iowa State University research team is collaborating with
scientists at the Samuel Roberts Nobel Foundation and also with
scientists in Japan to develop an international partnership to
help make strides in the technologies needed towards a low-carbon
society by looking at the chemistry of basic processes in
plants and how those functions can be better known and
used.
Cyclones headed to NYC's Pinstripe Bowl
Iowa State will take on Rutgers in the 2011 New Era Pinstripe Bowl on Dec. 30 at 2:30 p.m., Yankeee Stadium, The Bronx, N.Y. The Iowa State University Alumni Association has a bowl travel package that includes round-trip charter from Des Moines and three nights' accommodations (Dec. 28-30) at the Millennium Broadway Hotel in New York.
If a fat tax is coming, heres how to make it efficient, effective: ISU economists
A 'sin tax' applied to sweetened goods on store shelves is not the most efficient, effective method of lowering caloric intake from sweet food and would be more disruptive to consumers than necessary, according to Iowa State University research.
Renovated and expanded State Gym will open Jan. 9
Iowa State University's remodeled State Gym and its 94,000 square-foot addition will open on the first day of spring semester -- Jan. 9 -- at 6 a.m. Students may access the building with a current ISU ID card starting then. From Jan. 9 through 22, there will be a free trial period for the university community.
Political analyst Charlie Cook helps kick off inaugural Harkin Institute events
Charlie Cook -- an NBC News political analyst and publisher of The Cook Political Report -- delivered the inaugural Harkin Institute of Public Policy Lecture Nov. 29 in the Memorial Union Sun Room. The lecture was preceded by a dedication ceremony for the Harkin Institute of Public Policy at Iowa State in the Campanile Room.
Study by ISU's Pruetz finds savanna chimps exhibit sharing behavior like humans
A new study by Iowa State anthropology professor Jill Pruetz (at left) reports that chimpanzees from her Fongoli research site in Senegal also frequently share food and hunting tools with other chimps. Co-authored by ISU anthropology graduate student Stacy Lindshield, it is the first study to document non-meat sharing behavior among chimpanzees.Their study is posted online in Primates and will be published in a future issue of the journal.
From Eisenhower to Reagan: Five questions with ISU's Dwight Ink
Gifts for Iowa Staters
Who needs Black Friday or Cyber Monday when you can browse Inside Iowa State's annual gift guide? Campus departments, retailers and student organizations have some special ideas in store for the holidays.
In the news
Veterans sowing seeds of farming success
USA Today and The Des Moines Register
Marine Corps veteran Tyler Albers wants to graduate from college and grow organic vegetables on his family's northeast Iowa farm. Organizations including the Farmer-Veteran Coalition and Iowa State's Beginning Farmer Center are working to pair veterans with farming careers.
Sexism in politics issue reignited after Bachmann's 'Fallon' appearance
St. Cloud Times
Dianne Bystrom of ISU's Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics says presidential candidate Michele Bachmann has been wise not to complain she is being treated unfairly because of gender. But, Bystrom says, media coverage still tilts toward gender stereotypes when it comes to women running for president or vice president. "We look for equitable treatment of males and females, and we're certainly not finding it," Bystrom says of her research.
Protecting privacy online is easier than you think
The Des Moines Register
Associate Professor Jeff Blevins, director of undergraduate education in ISU's Greenlee School of Journalism, says we are our own culprits when it comes to online privacy. In this Des Moines Register guest column, Blevins offers tips and recommends people be careful about what they post via social media.