News and Events

  • Women's Equality Day Raises Awareness

    Monday, August 29, 2016
    National Women’s Equality Day celebrates the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which granted women the right to vote. But the event isn’t simply here to celebrate — women are still granted less rights than men.

  • Furry Friend Helps Students Lower Stress

    Sunday, August 28, 2016
    So, who is Marmalade? Marmalade’s a 4-year-old Shih Tzu poodle mix —otherwise known as a Shih-poo — from the small city of Villalba, Puerto Rico, and she is of the upmost education.

  • Wall Opens Conversation in the Area of Diversity for ISU Students

    Sunday, August 28, 2016
    On Thursday, day two of the series, the "Hate Wall" event emphasized the negativity around racial and cultural stereotypes and how to deconstruct them together as a community.

  • ISU Athletes Team Up to Fight Hunger

    Sunday, August 28, 2016
    The Iowa State Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) is doing its part to give back to the community this weekend. SAAC co-president Savanna Townsend said there will be “close to 80” student-athletes volunteering this weekend for the event.

  • ISU Research Finds Increase in Healthy Dining

    Friday, August 26, 2016
    Susan Arendt, professor of apparel, events and hospitality management, along with former ISU doctoral students Jinhyun Jun and Juhee Kang, worked for the past five years researching factors that determine a person’s food selection at restaurants.

  • Future Transportation Researched at ISU

    Friday, August 26, 2016
    Team PrISUm is a student-led organization that uses its knowledge of technology, design and business to create solar-powered cars for competition and to educate younger generations.

  • Community comes around Freshmen to introduce them to ISU

    Wednesday, August 24, 2016
    Connect Four, a multicultural group on campus, has students covered, kicking off its first meeting in LeBaron Hall on Tuesday. Connect Four is meant for first-year students who want to meet new people and be a part of a community that is welcoming.

  • 110-Year-Old Marston Hall Opens After Two Year Renovation

    Wednesday, July 20, 2016
    The building, which has been home to engineering students and administration for more than a century, has been renovated here and there as the university attempted to keep up with the years of wear and tear on the building.

  • Iowa State Research Park Helps Shape Iowa's Economic Future

    Wednesday, July 13, 2016
    But ask an opportunist, and he will paint a different picture entirely. Ask a man with a daft imagination, and he will pull much more than a crop from that soil. Ask a man who's set out to initiate innovation and prosperity.

  • Landscape Architecture Students Build Green Playgrounds to Enrich Communities

    Thursday, June 23, 2016
    Iowa State assistant professor Bambi Yost and her fifth-year landscape architecture students re-imagined schoolyards in Philadelphia.

  • An Agent for Change: Ajay Nair

    Monday, June 20, 2016
    Ajay Nair, an assistant professor of horticulture at Iowa State University, suspects there’s a way to graft the right tomato varieties together to create a plant hardy enough to withstand disease while also producing the tastiest, juiciest produce.

  • Ames Continues to Support Sustainability

    Monday, June 6, 2016
    The City of Ames and Iowa State decided in 2010 to share the services of ISU's Director of Sustainability, Merry Rankin. Initially, the plan was to reduce the consumption of electricity with the help of ISU's Office of Sustainability.

  • Student Government Sets Focus for 2016

    Sunday, May 8, 2016
    At this school year's first Student Government meeting, a proposed records fee was introduced to the senate, along with the task of filling committee positions. Laura Doering with the Registrar's office introduced the presentation.

  • ISU Student Start-ups Supported

    Thursday, May 5, 2016
    Iowa State University’s Pappajohn Center for Entrepreneurship announced the first cohort that will be participating in the summer accelerator, CYstarters program. Eight teams will be part of the first 10 week-long summer accelerator at Iowa State.

  • Fundraiser Supports Local Animal Shelters

    Sunday, May 1, 2016
    Iowa State University students are getting the opportunity to cuddle with a friendly, furry puppy on central campus as part of the biannual Rent-A-Puppy fundraiser hosted by the Sigma Lambda Gamma sorority.

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