Dig into the latest big report just released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and a fact sheet tells you about projected climate changes in central North America. There’s “high confidence” that drought will increase as warming increases, according to the panel’s sixth report, “Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis.” It’s “very likely” there will be increases in…

The National Science Foundation (NSF) this month announced the second phase of funding for the regional Big Data Innovation Hub (BD Hubs) program. Under the planned four year, $4 million award, the Midwest Big Data Hub will continue to be led from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign….

More undergraduate students, including minority students, are studying abroad. Chad Gasta, professor and chair of world languages and cultures at Iowa State University, has identified some factors for the increase.

Iowa State University is a partner in the collaborative and innovative Center for Advancing the Societal Impacts of Research. Called the ARIS Center, this effort is housed at the University of Missouri and is funded by a $5.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The ARIS Center will work with scientists and engagement…

Johanna Amaya Leal, assistant professor of supply chain management in the Debbie and Jerry Ivy College of Business at Iowa State University, says victims of natural disasters would be better served if volunteer groups seeking to help could report to local response coordinators.

More than 20 international partner institutions, including Iowa State University, have been awarded a seven-year, $2.5 million partnership grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) for the project, “Appraising risk, past and present: Interrogating historical data to enhance understanding of environmental crises in the Indian Ocean World.” McGill University’s Indian…

The Democratic Party shouldn’t count on Latinos swinging many midterm races their way this year, according to Steffen Schmidt, Lucken Endowed Professor of Political Science at Iowa State University. Approximately 27.3 million U.S. Latinos are eligible to vote in November’s midterm elections – 12 percent of all eligible voters, according to the Pew Research Center….

Sarah Nusser, Iowa State vice president for research, and Catherine Woteki, ISU professor of food science and human nutrition, teamed up with professors from Virginia Tech to author “How to put data to work in your neighborhood,” an evidence-based policy-making article that local governments can refer to as they harness administrative data to enhance livability,…

With care and attention given to learning the culture, building relationships, and developing trust, Iowa State University has over the past year begun to offer research-based financial education classes to residents of the Meskwaki Nation in Tama.

AMES, Iowa – More than a million Iowans are at an increased risk of dying from heart disease, cancer or a stroke simply because they live in a rural area. Higher rates of smoking, high blood pressure and obesity among rural Americans, as well as poverty rates and access to health care all contribute to…