News Archive
Monday, June 18 2012
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Caffrey will become interim director of admissions
Longtime admissions officer Phil Caffrey will step into the interim director position when current admissions director Marc Harding departs to take a position at the University of Pittsburgh in mid-July. Senior Vice President for Student Affairs Tom Hill appointed Caffrey to the interim position, effective July 16.
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Iowa State’s Formula SAE team looks for engine answers as it prepares to race
Cyclone Racing's Formula team races its mini open-wheel car this week in a Lincoln, Neb., competition sponsored by SAE International, formerly known as the Society of Automotive Engineers. The team has been having problems with its Yamaha engine and has been scrambling to engineer a solution. If the engine problem is solved, team members think the car's lightweight, compact design could be quick on a race course.
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Iowa State's Design in Action exhibit heads to Smithsonian Folklife Festival in D.C.
More than 1 million people are expected to visit the Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., June 27- July 1 and July 4-8. And Iowa State will be center stage to show how faculty, staff and students put design in action to transform communities. Iowa State is one of only 17 land-grants selected to participate in the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Morrill Act. A campus preview of the exhibit, "Transforming Communities: Design in Action," was held today before the trusses, computers, LED panels, touchscreen workstations and original artwork are crated and shipped to the nation's capital later this week.
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Akinc named interim dean of Iowa State University’s College of Engineering
Professor Mufit Akinc, a faculty member at Iowa State University since 1981, has been named interim dean of the College of Engineering effective July 30. He succeeds Jonathan Wickert, who will assume the role of senior vice president and provost at Iowa State on the same date.
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Iowa State Baja SAE Team carries results, confidence into Wisconsin race
The Iowa State Baja SAE Team's off-road racer has already splashed through Oregon mud. Next up are the trails and hills of Wisconsin. Team members are confident they'll have a competitive racer at the June 7-10 event sponsored by SAE International, formerly known as the Society of Automotive Engineers.
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Laura Doering named university registrar
Laura Doering, longtime staffer in Iowa State University's offices of the Registrar and Admissions, will become the university's next registrar July 1, Vice President for Student Affairs Tom Hill has announced.
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Nobel Laureates laud Orazem's education plan at Copenhagen Consensus
Peter Orazem, a University Professor of economics, authored four of the top 15 strategies cited by a panel of leading economists, including four Nobel laureates, at the global Copenhagen Consensus 2012 last month. Orazem's recommendations were on how to improve education in the developing world. The panel was charged with answering the question, "If you had $75 billion to spend over the next four years and your goal was to advance human welfare, how could you get the most value for your money?"
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Iowa State’s Takle addresses USDA on climate change and its effects on agriculture
Iowa State University's Gene Takle will tell U.S. Department of Agriculture officials how farmers are adapting to climate changes. He'll say, for example, that wetter springs and summers mean more drainage tile is being buried under fields. Takle will speak during a USDA seminar on June 7 in Washington, D.C. The seminar will be videotaped for later webcast.
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ISU researcher studies education paths of Iowa GED program enrollees
Iowa high school dropouts who enrolled in the General Education Development (GED) preparation program during the 2003-04 fiscal year, fewer than a third (31.5 percent or 3,680) earned a GED by the end of the 2009 fiscal year. And only 2 percent (229) completed a community college credential, according to the doctoral dissertation by Andrew Ryder, a research and evaluation scientist in Iowa State's Research Institute for Studies in Education.
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Pamela Anthony named dean of students
Pamela Anthony, who has served as assistant dean of students at Georgia State University since 2003, will begin as Iowa State's dean of students on Aug. 1.
Kosovo president visits
Atifete Jahjaga, president of the Republic of Kosovo, talks with Horticulture Research Station superintendent Nick Howell during a university visit June 13.
Video: Getting to know 'U'
It's a busy June at Iowa State as thousands of students and their families get to know campus during two-day summer orientation sessions.
Video: Lecturer creates sculpture for Jester Park
Michael Stanley, an integrated studio arts lecturer, came to Iowa State as a grad student when Katrina wiped out his home and school. Now his sculpture is a showpiece at the new Jester Park Elk and Bison Educational Plaza.
ISU faculty among top 50 creative writing profs on Twitter
Iowa State's Mary Swander (@MSwander) and Dean Bakopoulos (@DeanBakopoulos) have made World Wide Learn's list of the top 50 creative writing professors on Twitter. Tweet that.
Reynolds named director of the School of Education
Ralph E. Reynolds will become the inaugural director of the School of Education in Iowa State's College of Human Sciences on July 1. Reynolds has served as professor and chair of the department of educational psychology at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas since 2000.