Iowa State University

Kernels of truth: Researchers sequence the corn genome

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:56:00 -0600

U.S. News & World Report

The Nov. 20 issue of the journal Science lauds the completion of a high-quality sequence of the corn genome -- a breakthrough made possible through the work of ISU Plant Sciences Institute researchers.

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Iowa State team selected for grant to increase sustainability in parts of Africa

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600

The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society Foundation recently selected a proposal submitted by ISU's Engineers Without Borders chapter to receive a grant to fund a project designed to increase sustainability in parts of Africa.

News release.

ISU innovator processes hog feed -- and vodka

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:20:00 -0600

Des Moines Register

Hans van Leeuwen envisions a range of benefits from his innovations: a better feed for pigs from an ethanol byproduct, a protein source to feed the hungry, and a purer vodka.

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H1N1 clinics scheduled Nov. 23-24; most students are eligible to receive vaccine

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600

Story County Public Health has scheduled public H1N1 vaccination clinics in Ames on Nov. 23 and 24. The clinics will be held Monday, Nov. 23, from 1 to 5 p.m. at the Scheman Building, rooms 260-262, on the Iowa State campus; and on Tuesday, Nov. 24 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at RSVP, Suite 123, Colorado Junction Mall, 113 Colorado Ave. Persons age six months to 24 years remain among the priority groups eligible to receive the H1N1 vaccine; vaccinations are free.
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"Tomorrow's Table" authors to discuss future of food Dec. 3 at Iowa State

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600

An organic food educator and a plant biotechnologist who teamed up to write a book on the potential combination of biotechnology and sustainable farming methods will speak at Iowa State on Dec. 3. Authors Pamela Ronald and Raoul Adamchak will talk about their book, "Tomorrow's Table: Organic Farming, Genetics and the Future of Food," at 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 3, in the Memorial Union Sun Room. Their presentation is free and open to the public.

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A view to a-maize�ISU Plant Sciences Institute researchers provide technical expertise and some biological overlay to maize genome sequence

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600

Iowa State University Plant Sciences Institute researchers contributed to the raw data assembly and much of the ongoing functional analysis work for this multi-institutional, $32 million, National Science Foundation-funded effort to sequence the maize genome.

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Just in the time for holiday shoppers: Hira offers advice on breaking credit addiction

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600

Tahira Hira, a professor of personal finance and consumer economics in ISU's Department of Human Development and Family Studies, provides a plan on how people may kick their credit addiction.

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ISU Dairy Products Evaluation Team returns, places in national contest

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600

Iowa State University's Dairy Products Evaluation Team placed fourth overall in the 88th Collegiate Dairy Products Evaluation contest in a national student competition in Glenview, Ill. The team also placed third in individual categories of cottage cheese, Cheddar cheese and butter.

News release.

Firefighting gear

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:02:00 -0600

WHO-TV

A team of researchers from Iowa State's College of Human Sciences are part of an eight-university project designed to improve the effectiveness of gear for firefighters.

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ISU experts project a lean holiday retail season, giving consumers edge

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600

Meghan O'Brien, an economist with ISU's Regional Capacity Analysis Program, wrote that the prospects for the holiday retail season "remain bleak" in her "Retail Forecast: Holiday 2009." Laura Smarandescu, an assistant professor of marketing, says that may give consumers the shopping edge this holiday season.

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Swander, poetry classes creating a tactile and audible show for Iowa Department for the Blind

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600

Two ISU undergraduate poetry classes instructed by Iowa's poet laureate Mary Swander are crafting a poetry exhibit that will be accessible to the blind. "More than Words: A Tactile and Audible Poetry Experience" will open on Tuesday, Dec. 1, at 7 p.m. in the Iowa Department for the Blind's Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped in Des Moines.

News release.

Iowa State engineers develop 3-D software to give doctors, students a view inside the body

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600

Iowa State's Eliot Winer and James Oliver have developed technology that turns flat medical scans into vibrant 3-D images that can be shifted, adjusted, zoomed and replayed at will. The technology is now being marketed and sold by a startup company called BodyViz.com based at Iowa State's CyberInnovation Institute.

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Iowa State staff search decades-old paper records to identify Gold Star Hall honorees

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600

The walls of the Gold Star Hall - the "memorial" in Memorial Union - are engraved with the names of former students who died while on active duty in the U.S. Armed Services.

This year, seven new names have been engraved. These fallen soldiers, whose combat deaths span 25 years (from 1944 to 1969), will be honored in Iowa State's Gold Star Hall ceremony on Veterans Day.

The seven added this year are former studnets who attended Iowa State, but did not graduate. It takes dedicated Iowa State staff to search through decades-old, hard copy records to uncover the non-graduating students who should be honored in the Gold Star Hall.

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Iowa State scientist develops lab machine to study glacial sliding related to rising sea levels

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600

Neal Iverson has created a glacier in a freezer that could help scientists understand how glaciers slide across their beds. That could help researchers predict how climate change accelerates glacier sliding and contributes to rising sea levels.

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