Guowen Song picked a pair of gloves from the different styles lining a table inside his Labs for Functional Textiles and Protective Clothing to demonstrate why it is time for an upgrade. Without even trying on the glove, it was easy to see how the thick, bulky material designed to protect the hand severely limits…
A multi-state experiment that recently received a major grant will examine how planting cover crops on farm fields affects plant disease, pests and weeds. Alison Robertson, a professor of plant pathology and microbiology at Iowa State University, will lead a portion of the experiments as part of a much larger project awarded a $10 million…
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….
Iowa State’s student learning communities have grown and thrived since their inception in 1995. Today, the university boasts more than 90 student learning communities focused on an array of academic and other topics as well as a 77% participation rate among first-year students. Now, Iowa State’s faculty are delving into the learning community arena for…
Two interdisciplinary research teams have been selected to receive funding from Iowa State University’s 2019 Bridging the Divide internal funding opportunity, a program that aims to solve complex challenges at the interface between disciplines through new convergent collaborations among university researchers and scholars in design, art, humanities and social sciences with those from science, engineering…
The Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities (CEAH) recently announced that 10 Iowa State University arts and humanities scholars are the spring 2019 recipients of its research and symposium grants. Eight faculty received research grants, and two earned symposium grants. “These grants are like seeds that help Iowa State’s arts and humanities scholars…
Iowa State University researchers received a boost in March when the Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) announced funding for four new instruments that will advance the university’s scientific endeavors. The awards are made possible through the Presidential Cost Sharing – Research Instrumentation Funding (COSRIF) internal funding program, which provides funding for faculty…
The Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust of Muscatine, Iowa, has committed more than $3.5 million to transform biomolecular research at Iowa State University, making it a leader in advanced electron microscopy technology. The Carver Trust grant will help advance the second phase of the Iowa State University Roy J. Carver Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and…
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) causes an infectious disease that sickens about a half million Americans each year, resulting in approximately 15,000 deaths. The larger concern is that the bacterium is increasingly developing resistance to antibiotics. Iowa State University’s Brett Sponseller, associate professor of veterinary microbiology and…
A team of Iowa State University scientists is bridging the gap between engineering and farming by applying machine learning and mathematical modeling to perennial problems in agriculture. The project recently received a grant from the National Science Foundation.
