News and Events
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Crowdfunding effort honors minority student advocate George Jackson
Thursday, June 3, 2021A lifelong advocate for underrepresented students, including 31 years in Ames, Jackson was known for his no-boundaries effort that helped hundreds of students overcome hurdles.
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'We know what we need': SISTER connects women of color
Thursday, June 3, 2021SISTER is agroup of more than 80 faculty and staff who identify as women of color who gather monthly on campus over the lunch hour to connect and share stories.
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Engineered defects in crystalline material boosts electrical performance
Thursday, May 27, 2021Researchers have discovered that engineering one-dimensional line defects into certain materials can increase their electrical performance.
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Advancing diversity and inclusion in business requires a common language, knowledge
Wednesday, May 26, 2021To implement meaningful change, a team of researchers says a holistic and systematic approach is needed to ensure practitioners, educators and researchers are all working from the same playbook.
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Pollinating insects can help soybean yields
Tuesday, May 25, 2021Insects can help soybean yields by carrying out more effective pollination, according to a recently published study conducted by an international team of scientists.
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Change Agent: Dipali Sashital
Thursday, May 20, 2021Sashital explores the mechanisms of CRISPR-Cas systems, which allow for precise cutting and editing of an organism’s genes. These technologies have the potential for revolutionary advances in human health and agriculture.
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Mapping Iowa’s soil topography
Tuesday, May 18, 2021An Iowa State University agronomist is developing new computer models of soil erosion and topography changes, requiring both innovative big-data technology as well as painstaking validation of soil measurements in the real world.
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Glaciologists measure, model hard glacier beds, write slip law to estimate glacier speeds
Tuesday, May 18, 2021Researchers measured rock glacier beds to create high-resolution digital models they used to study how glaciers move along their bedrock bases.
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The ‘key’ to new COVID-19 vaccine development
Monday, May 10, 2021An Iowa State University biomedical scientist is researching a new COVID-19 vaccine that would target only a small portion of the virus’s spike protein.
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Iowa State student named Udall Scholar
Friday, May 7, 2021Iowa State University has a Udall Scholar for the fourth year in a row. Nolan Monaghan, junior in horticulture and global resource systems, is well on his way to a career in sustainable agriculture.
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Ames focuses on sustainability
Thursday, April 29, 2021The Ames community is prioritizing environmental sustainability, and the Ames City Council, Iowa State and college students are all contributing.
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Vision for ultra-precision agriculture includes machine-learning enabled sensing, modeling, robots tending crops
Thursday, April 29, 2021Rather than tending fields by the hundreds of acres, farmers could one day tend each and every plant with the help of machine learning, robots and other technologies.
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Iowa State, city of Ames partner to reduce nutrient runoff, improve recreation
Wednesday, April 28, 2021A partnership with the city of Ames is giving Iowa State University students an opportunity to propose the redesign of an area of the city with the goals of reducing nutrient runoff and improving recreation.
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Intensive intervention program helps 'at-promise' CALS students
Thursday, April 22, 2021Providing the needed structure for academically struggling students is the goal of the SMART Steps.