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Thursday, July 18 2019

  • Connecting silos: Iowa State University scientists call for unconventional collaboration in agriculture

    Iowa State University researchers hope to connect the "silos" of various disciplines by encouraging wide collaboration to address agricultural challenges. The effort is part of the Genomes to Fields Initiative, which began in 2014 to make genomic data related to corn as widely available as possible.

  • Iowa State attracts $469 million in external funds, sets record of $260.9 million for research

    Iowa State University attracted $469 million of total external funding for the fiscal year that ended June 30. That's the third highest total for external funding and follows two record years of support. The latest total includes a record $260.9 million of external support for Iowa State research.

  • ISU study describes how mosquito immune system fights off malaria parasite

    A new study describes the way mosquito immune systems fight malaria parasites using various waves of resistance. The study could lay the groundwork for future research to combat the transmission of malaria, which sickens millions of people across the globe every year.

  • Helping Marshalltown recover from tornado through research, outreach

    One year after an EF-3 tornado struck Marshalltown, Iowa State students and faculty are conducting research and outreach to help a community still in recovery. They’re using what they’ve learned to create a toolkit that communities can use to examine challenges that exacerbate a disaster’s damage and slow recovery efforts.

  • Iowa State students develop self-checkout fraud detection model to win international data mining competition

    A team of Iowa State University graduate students brought home the top prize from the 20th annual Data Mining Cup, beating nearly 150 teams from 114 universities in 28 countries. The winners were announced July 3 in Berlin. The students developed a mathematical model to detect cases of fraud at self-checkouts in grocery stores.

  • Want to boost creativity? Try playing Minecraft

    Video games that foster creative freedom can increase creativity under certain conditions, according to new research from Iowa State University. The experimental study compared the effect of playing Minecraft, with or without instruction, to watching a TV show or playing a race car video game. Those given the freedom to play Minecraft without instruction were most creative.

  • Iowa State-Iowa researchers team up to advance state’s bioscience priorities

    A second year of seed grants will support development of three Iowa State-Iowa research teams working on projects in the biosciences. The idea is to help the researchers build joint teams, collect data, grow projects, compete for bigger grants and help grow Iowa's bioscience economy.

  • Physicists use light waves to accelerate supercurrents, enable ultrafast quantum computing

    Iowa State's Jigang Wang and a team of collaborators have discovered that terahertz light --light at trillions of cycles per second -- can act as a control knob to accelerate supercurrents. That can help open up the quantum world of matter and energy at atomic and subatomic scales to practical applications such as ultrafast computing.

  • Designing better products for off-grid, backcountry situations

    A group of Iowa State University industrial design students recently spent two weeks “off grid” in the American Southwest — an experience that has sparked a slew of ideas for new products the students are now designing for backcountry adventures.

  • Four approaches to understanding and moving beyond dysfunctional deliberation

    It may feel like we have reached an impasse in the debate over divisive issues such as gun violence, climate change and immigration. Improving the level of discourse is not impossible, says Craig Rood, an assistant professor of English at Iowa State University, but he admits it will not be easy.  Rood offers four strategies for working toward understanding. 

  • Formula racers earn a top-10 finish, analyze the data to find even more speed

    The student-engineers of Iowa State's Formula SAE team have been spending sunny summer days trying to trim a few tenths of a second from the times posted by their race car. The students recently finished eighth overall at a competition in Canada. They're hoping for an even better performance this week at a competition in Lincoln, Nebraska.