News Archive
Monday, March 15 2021
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Pandemic emphasizes need for digital literacy education
Parents would never give their children the keys to the car without supervised training and driver’s education. An Iowa State University researcher says parents and educators need to take a similar approach before handing children a keyboard to access the digital world.
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Iowa State receives national recognition for efforts to encourage voting
Iowa State University is one of more than 230 campuses – and the only one in Iowa – to be designated as a “Voter Friendly Campus,” recognizing the work of ISU students and the Catt Center for Women and Politics to support voter registration efforts and encourage students to vote.
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Field study shows icing can cost wind turbines up to 80% of power production
Researchers led by Iowa State's Hui Hu took their studies of wind-turbine icing out of the lab and into the field to learn how and where ice accumulates on rotating blades. They learned ice on the blades can reduce power production by up to 80%. The field experiments also validated their experimental findings, theories and predictions.
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New cell line could lead to more reliable vaccine development to fight costly pig virus
The production of autogenous vaccines to fight individual strains of the virus that causes porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome depends on the ability of scientists to isolate the virus, but sometimes that’s a tricky process. A new study from an Iowa State University researcher shows that a new cell line may offer a better alternative to the cell line most commonly used to isolate the PRRS virus. But the vast majority of vaccine producers use the established cell line, and it remains to be seen how readily they might adopt the use of a new one.
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Metal whispering: Finding a better way to recover precious metals from electronic waste
With a bit of "metal whispering," Iowa State University engineers have developed technology capable of recovering pure and precious metals from the alloys in our old phones and other electrical waste. All it takes is the controlled application of oxygen and relatively low levels of heat.
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Iowa State named a top producer of Fulbright Scholars
Iowa State University is among the U.S. colleges and universities that produced the most Fulbright U.S. Scholars for 2020-21, as announced by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Six Iowa State scholars were offered Fulbright Awards for 2020-21.
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UV light shows promise in mitigation of costly swine virus
Experiments testing the ability of ultraviolet light to stop the spread of a costly virus for pork producers has shown promise, according to an ISU research team. Ultraviolet light analyzed in experiments irradiates aerosolized droplets of the virus that causes porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome. The researchers hope to scale their experiments up to a size comparable to pork production facilities.
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Grassroots effort becomes ‘bedrock’ of Iowa State experience
Twenty-five years after learning communities began at Iowa State University, they are now a thriving and integral part of the first-year student experience. And for the nearly 93000 students who have joined a learning community during that time, the relationships and connections made often extend beyond their college years.
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Iowa State particle physicists follow the data to Japan’s Belle II experiment
Iowa State high-energy physicists Chunhui Chen, Jim Cochran and Soeren Prell have moved their research from the Large Hadron Collider in Europe to the Belle II experiment in Japan. It's a chance to search for new physics at the intensity frontier of more and more particle collisions.
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Grant to help fill gaps in how livestock manure management affects antibiotic resistance
Iowa State University researchers received a $1 million grant to study how manure management systems in livestock production may give rise to antibiotic resistance. Human, animal and environmental health interact in complex ways that influence the pace at which antibiotic resistance spreads, and the researchers hope their work will shed light on these connections.
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COVID-19 weekly snapshot
The following information is a supplement to the university's COVID-19 Public Health Data weekly updates. It is intended to provide a brief snapshot of the data and trends identified by Iowa State's public health team.
Athletic training in a pandemic
Students studying athletic training continue to get hands-on experience, while also learning how to work with patients safely in a pandemic.
COVID-19 information
The following links include information about test results, campus operations and the work of researchers in response to the pandemic: