News Archive
Tuesday, May 19 2020
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Scientists use light to accelerate supercurrents, access forbidden light, quantum properties
Iowa State's Jigang Wang continues to explore using light waves to accelerate supercurrents to access the unique and potentially useful properties of the quantum world. His latest findings have just been published by the scientific journal Physical Review Letters.
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Replacing time spent sitting with sleep or light activity may improve your mood
New research, published by the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, found that substituting prolonged sedentary time with sleep was associated with lower stress, better mood and lower body mass index (BMI), and substituting light physical activity was associated with improved mood and lower BMI across the next year.
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Grant will help ISU scientists break new ground in gene editing
A new grant from the National Institutes of Health will allow Iowa State University scientists to continue to develop gene editing technologies to model human disease in zebrafish. The research aims to build new tools to determine which genes have therapeutic potential to treat human genetic diseases that affect the cardiovascular, immune and nervous systems.
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Risk of gaming addiction increases for small, but significant number as teens become adults
Playing video games is not a problem for most teens, but those who develop symptoms of Gaming Disorder are more anxious, aggressive, depressed and shy, according to new research. The longitudinal study is one of the first to follow adolescents for an extended period of time to track changes in video game play and symptoms as they become young adults.
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Supply chain challenges to remain as states start to reopen
An Iowa State supply chain expert expects to see some hiccups as states start to reopen and supply chains slowly rebound from the coronavirus pandemic. Scott Grawe says the uncertainty and unpredictability that led to shortages of toilet paper and cleaning supplies at the start of this pandemic will continue to disrupt supply chains.
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ISU student is named Stanford Knight-Hennessy Scholar, the first from Iowa
Nikita Kozak, senior in mechanical engineering from Waukee, is the first student from Iowa to be named a Stanford University Knight-Hennessy Scholar.
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New analysis measures economic impact of Iowa industries
Agriculture and manufacturing are at the heart of Iowa’s economy, accounting for 38% of the state’s gross domestic product, according to a new economic analysis from Iowa State University. The report goes beyond traditional jobs and income data reported by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis and measures all labor and supplies required to provide a commodity or service for export.
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Engineers demonstrate next-generation solar cells can take the heat, maintain efficiency
Iowa State engineers have developed a next-generation solar cell that takes advantage of the promising elctro-optical properties of perovskite materials. They've made the materials much more stable at high temperatures and demonstrated a consistent, clean way to fabricate them into solar cells. Those could be important steps toward commercial production of new, low-cost, efficient, lightweight and flexible solar cells.
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Altered final semester doesn’t stop graduating senior’s Cyclone spirit – or his dance moves
For someone as outgoing as Vincent Valeriano, the socially-distanced final semester of his adventure at Iowa State University has been difficult. The senior in marketing looks back fondly on his Cyclone experience, from showing prospective students around campus to mentoring fellow students to finding a love for swing dancing.
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Finally a Cyclone: Student fulfills lifelong dream of earning BSN, graduating from Iowa State
This weekend, Dawn Hales will have achieved her twofold dream: She’ll be an Iowa State University alumna and she will finally have her Bachelor of Science in Nursing. At 63 years old, her formal education is finished, but she will “never stop learning.”
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ISU student, previous ‘Voice’ contestant looks to future after graduation
EllieMae Millenkamp’s senior year at Iowa State University has been a whirlwind. It started with her singing on national TV. She returned to Iowa with a busy schedule of gigs, then the COVID-19 pandemic moved classes online and she went home to work on the dairy farm. Now, she’s looking toward graduation and her career.
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National center for forensic science wins federal renewal for another five years, $20 million
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has renewed support for the Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence based at Iowa State. The renewal adds five years and up to $20 million of support for the center's mission of research, outreach and training.
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ISU GivePulse provides platform to give back, strengthen communities
The COVID-19 pandemic has created an even greater need for the ISU GivePulse platform. The GivePulse hub lists links to volunteer and networking opportunities in an effort to promote community engagement. In recent weeks, the network has put out a call for food donations, child care for essential workers and volunteers for book distribution programs.
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Iowa State student selected as Udall Scholar
Toni Sleugh, an Iowa State University junior in biology and environmental studies, is one of 55 students from across the U.S. selected for the Udall Scholarship. This is the third year in a row that an ISU student has been named a Udall Scholar.
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Paul Canfield of ISU, Ames Laboratory elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Paul Canfield of Iowa State University and the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Canfield is a condensed matter physicist who designs and discovers new materials and properties.
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ISU robot still reports to work, even during a pandemic
Even while the pandemic has halted many everyday activities, a robot at Iowa State University continues to toil away in its laboratory, oblivious to the coronavirus outbreak. Scientists studying how drought affects plants depend on the data gathered by the robot and call the autonomous system “amazingly reliable.”
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Iowa State student selected as Boren Fellow
A graduate student in electrical and computer engineering is Iowa State University’s first-ever recipient of the Boren Fellowship, an award that will allow him to combine his passions for cybersecurity, machine learning and the Russian language through work and study abroad.
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ISU Dining delivers
ISU Dining is partnering with Story County Emergency Management, United Way of Story County and other community organizations during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dining employees have answered the call for help by delivering food to schools and food pantries across the county.
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Study: Visitor’s garden is improving prison visitation experience for all
New research shows that a visitor’s garden designed and built by Iowa State University students and incarcerated individuals at the Iowa Correctional Institution for Women is helping to strengthen connections between the women and their children.