Iowa State University’s fourth annual Research Day has been canceled as part of an ongoing university-wide effort to prepare for and prevent the spread of COVID-19. Earlier this week, university leadership announced a recommendation to postpone or cancel large events scheduled to take place on campus between March 23 and April 3. This includes Research Day, which typically…
Four finalists have been identified in the search for the next vice president for research. They will visit campus in the coming weeks: Shashank Priya, March 9-10 Candidate 2, March 23-24 Candidate 3, March 26-27 Candidate 4, April 2-3 Each candidate will be announced one business day before their visit. During the interview, candidates will…
Fourteen Iowa State University students have been selected to receive $140,000 in Brown Graduate Fellowship funding to support strategic university research over the next year. Established in 2011 and administered by the Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR), the annual Brown Graduate Fellowship Program is used to advance Iowa State research in science,…
Solutions to some of the problems Iowa communities are facing may be found in the data towns and cities already collect, but lack the resources to access and analyze. Iowa State University researchers are lending their expertise to help communities tap into that information. The team is part of a three-state Coordinated Innovation Network of…
Iowa State University’s Consortium for Cultivating Human and Naturally reGenerative Enterprises (C-CHANGE) is hosting its inaugural Conference on Agriculture, Technology and Innovation March 25-27, 2020, in Des Moines, Iowa. The conference – themed “Why are we missing the boat on biogas?” – is designed to bring together experts from agriculture, energy, government, science and society…
This is the latest entry in a series of articles telling the personal stories of Iowa State University faculty and scientists whose work is changing the world for the better. Click here for the complete list of Change Agents. Paul Plummer started taking on big scientific challenges before he even entered high school. As a kid, Plummer…
An Iowa State University researcher is launching efforts to develop a vaccine for a currently incurable mosquito-borne illness with the help of a Bailey Research Career Development award. Administered by the Iowa State University Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR), the Bailey Research Career Development award is given each year to faculty whose…
Dense urban areas use up more energy, water and food resources than they can produce themselves, forcing them to rely on external sources. But a team of researchers is imagining bold new ways to make Midwestern cities more self-reliant. The Sustainable Cities Research Team recently received a $2.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop…
Faster transfer of new discoveries and technologies from the university lab bench to the commercial marketplace is a linchpin for driving real economic growth for Iowa in the biosciences. Iowa State University is helping fuel this engine through bioscience-based research seed grants made possible by funding allocated by the Iowa Legislature. The Office of the…
Most people associate the 1960s, when the Vietnam War was raging, with draft resistance. By 1972, rumors about the lengths to which men would go to fail their pre-induction physicals had become common enough that scholars of folklore had noticed. Reports of men tattooing obscenities on their bodies, traveling to Tijuana for surgery to ruin rather…
