News Archive
Monday, June 25 2012
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Students key to university's Smithsonian Folklife Festival exhibit
Seven Iowa State University students played essential roles in the creation of Iowa State's exhibit for the 2012 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, June 27-July 1 and July 4-8, in Washington, D.C. The students helped refine the exhibit concept, build the model, research the hardware, program the games, design the custom control system, write the software, build the web browser and much more. They were instrumental in making the complex "Transforming Communities: Design in Action" exhibit work.
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Astronomers with NASA’s Kepler Mission find ‘puzzling pair of planets’
Astronomers using data from NASA's Kepler Mission have found a planetary odd couple 1,200 light years from Earth. The two planets with very different densities and compositions -- which are typically in very different orbits -- are orbiting close to each other. The discovery is published online by Science Express. Iowa State University's Steve Kawaler is part of the team that wrote the paper and a leader of Kepler star studies.
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Iowa State doctoral candidate studies green practice, operational performance of top firms
In her research of 264 publicly-traded companies in the U.S. (82 percent manufacturing companies) -- including 3M, Apple Computer, Walmart and General Motors -- Iowa State College of Business Ph.D. student Jing Dai has found that proactive environmental management strategies have helped benefit their operational performance in terms of greater efficiency when they collaborate with suppliers.
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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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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.
Art appreciation
Iowa State's six emerging Iowa artists in the Des Moines Arts Festival were visited Saturday by Janet Leath and Ana Gomez-Fernandez, spouses of ISU President Steven Leath and College of Design Dean Luis Rico-Gutierrez, shown here with Elizabeth Mason (left), who earned her BFA in integrated studio arts in 2011. Photo by Joe Muench.
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.