News Archive
Monday, September 12 2022
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Students come to Iowa State for opportunities, community
Iowa State’s total fall enrollment of 29,969 includes 25,241 undergraduate, 4,094 graduate and 634 veterinary medicine students, and students from all 99 counties, all 50 states and 114 countries. While overall enrollment is down, first-year students increased 6.3% over last year, and 13% over two years.
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Researchers find rare and endangered bumble bees in Iowa
A team of researchers at Iowa State University are part of a multi-state effort to map out where the federally endangered rusty patched bumble bee lives, identify what habitat it prefers and collect clues about the population’s genetic diversity and overall health. The findings, along with data about the threatened American bumble bee, could help wildlife managers and land stewards reverse their decline and support other pollinators more broadly.
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Behind the uptick in women’s alcohol consumption: stress, stereotypes, marketing
Pulling from extensive interviews, the latest research and national data, Sociology Professor Susan Stewart says women are drinking more alcohol to cope with stress, move up at work, feel confident and have fun – or be perceived as having fun – in her new book “On the Rocks: Straight talk about women and drinking.”
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Finding solutions to the Mississippi River basin’s biggest challenges
A team of researchers received a National Science Foundation grant to study the Mississippi River basin's challenges and how these issues connect to affect the environmental conditions of cities, suburban areas and rural areas — and the people living there.
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Iowa State students transform data to solve community problems
This summer, Iowa State University students worked on projects addressing local and state government challenges across Iowa, including employment for people with disabilities, analyzing local housing needs, wholesale local food price benchmarking and more.
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Researchers working to help Ukrainian refugees find housing, integrate into the Midwest
Iowa State researchers will study which factors determine successful integration of Ukrainian refugees into Midwestern communities. Their work will focus on improving housing conditions for the refugees. The project is supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation's Civic Innovation Challenge.
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Researchers studying leaf angle aim to improve yields, inspire young scientists
To better understand the underlying structure of corn leaf angle, an interdisciplinary research team is working to identify the genes using a robot developed at Iowa State to capture 3D images of corn in the field as well as transcriptomic- and CRISPR-based tools. The research, supported by a $2.5 million National Science Foundation grant, has the potential to aid in the engineering of new hybrids and boost yields.
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Researchers explore how people adapt to cybersickness from virtual reality
Initial results from an Iowa State study indicate cybersickness symptoms from virtual reality improve with just three, 20-minute sessions over a week, but a higher percentage of women and people who are prone to motion sickness have a harder time adapting.
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Study shows Gulf of Maine cooling for 900 years, then quickly warming since late 1800s
Researchers combined a marine history based on geochemical information in clam shells with thousands of computer simulations to determine that centuries of cooling in the Gulf of Maine suddenly reversed in the late 1800s. The researchers' climate models say greenhouse gas emissions have been a major driver of the warming in the Gulf of Maine.
Postcard from Campus: Coming Home
Students are back on Iowa State's beautiful campus, ready to start a new school year.
#IowaStateInnovates
This series highlights the collaboration and creativity that fuel Iowa State faculty and scientists to find solutions to big challenges, from strengthening mental health to beautifying Iowa communities, to finding new markets for next-generation agricultural products. This collection of words, photos, video and audio showcases Iowa State University's Innovation at Work.