News and Events

  • ISU Students Witness Democratic Debate in Vegas

    Wednesday, October 21, 2015
    The NextGen organization sent two ISU students Lauren Engley and Sierra Ballard to Las Vegas last week to participate in the Democratic debate.

  • Three ISU Students Receive Fellowship for Leadership in Food Sustainability

    Wednesday, October 21, 2015
    Ten students from around the nation--including three from ISU--were chosen as emerging leaders by Land O’Lakes, an agribusiness and food cooperative, to work for the next year to increase sustainability in America and in other countries around the world.

  • ISU Professor Expands Literacy for Younger Children Through Outreach

    Wednesday, October 21, 2015
    The amount of words a child hears in a day isn’t exactly what parents are keeping in mind when it comes to raising a child, but for an ISU outreach project, that’s the only thing it has in mind.

  • New Campustown Director Seeks Community Through Diverse Programming

    Wednesday, October 21, 2015
    With over a dozen applicants, from varying locations such as Texas and Ames, in the end Campustown Action Association hired Rebecca Olson as its new director.

  • Community Engagement Found to be Link to Good Mental Health

    Tuesday, October 20, 2015
    A group of ISU Researchers is analyzing data about the effects of community engagement on students’ mental health.

  • HungerU Raises Awareness of Economics and Food

    Tuesday, October 20, 2015
    The HugerU exhibit “is visiting college campuses not only to spark conversations about how today’s farmers are helping feed a hungry world but also to educate about the critical role that modern agriculture plays every day in putting food on our tables.”

  • ISU Student Interns in Ecuador to Study Water Filtration

    Monday, October 19, 2015
    Living abroad can be scary for many students, but try living in a tree house in the middle of the Amazon Rainforest. That is exactly what Sam Ennett, senior in global resource systems, did this summer.

  • ISU Celebrates Cultural Diversity Through Dandiya Night

    Sunday, October 18, 2015
    Memorial Union was ablaze with sound and color Saturday when it hosted Dandiya Night celebration, an event of dance and music put on by the ISU Indian Students' Association.

  • ISU Professor Develops Sustainable Robots with Solar Power

    Saturday, October 17, 2015
    Ran Dai, who is earning a five-year $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Program, began research a little more than a year ago on self-sufficient, power-managing, solar-powered robots.

  • Graphic Designers Raise Awareness of Sustainability Through Interactive Design

    Friday, October 16, 2015
    ISU graduate students helped people better understand the field of graphic design Oct. 10 and 11 with a gallery at a downtown studio. Master of fine arts graduate students recently filled the lower half of the Design on Main building, a local art studio.

  • ISU Hires First Diversity Director

    Thursday, October 15, 2015
    If he could have any kind of superpower, Reginald Stewart would chose to have the same powers as the Incredible Hulk. Stewart said he would choose those powers because there are no costumes or gadgets to help — it’s just him. The more intense the situati

  • Author Raises Awareness of Future Food Culture

    Thursday, October 15, 2015
    To eat meat, an animal has to be killed. This seems like an obvious fact, but most people do not think about where their food comes from. Louise O. Fresco, president of Wageningen University and Research Centre in the Netherlands, talked Thursday about t

  • ISU to Participate in National Campus Sustainability Day

    Thursday, October 15, 2015
    Did it feel like there were a lot more groups set up on the south library lawn yesterday? That is because it was National Campus Sustainability Day, coinciding with National Campus Sustainability Month.

  • Volunteers Assist Police by Watching Out and Speaking Up for Safety

    Thursday, October 15, 2015
    Volunteers from the Ames community helped local police shine the light on not so bright places throughout Campustown on Thursday evening in hopes to make Campustown as safe as possible for pedestrians.

  • Reginald Stewart to take on diversity position

    Thursday, October 15, 2015
    If he could have any kind of superpower, Reginald Stewart would chose to have the same powers as the Incredible Hulk.

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