After pioneering a system to improve swine health by collecting and publicizing pathogen testing results from large public veterinary laboratories across the Midwest, a team led by faculty from Iowa…
The Atlantic hurricane season starts on June 1, and forecasters are keeping a close eye on rising ocean temperatures, and not just in the Atlantic. Globally, warm sea surface temperatures that can…
Six Iowa State University graduate students have been selected to receive $60,000 in Brown Graduate Fellowship Program funding to support strategic university research over the next year. Established in 2011…
Around the turn of the 20th century, George Washington Carver – Iowa State University’s first African American student and faculty member – had a vision that materials for every human…
We all like to think of ourselves as rational human beings. If there’s a drastic change in our lives or at work, we can evaluate our options and make the…
While effective vaccines for COVID-19 should have heralded the benefits of mRNA vaccines, fear and misinformation about their supposed dangers circulated at the same time. These misconceptions about mRNA vaccines have recently…
If you need to talk to an expert on grain, Kurt Rosentrater is the expert for you. Growing up in Northwest Iowa, Rosentrater lived on a farm with cattle, swine,…
The virtual cell culture on Sakib Ferdous’ 34-inch computer monitor started with 50 bright red diamonds spread across the screen, each representing an unprogrammed cell ready to be converted to…
People from underrepresented ethnic and racial groups tend to rate poor customer service less negatively than white people do, according to new peer-reviewed research co-authored by Iowa State University Associate Professor…
Heavy downpours and a thick snowpack in the Western mountains and Upper Midwest have put communities in several states at risk of flooding this spring – or already under water. Flooding…
