News Releases

Iowa State engineers are using Iowa-sourced materials to build "ultra-low-cost, ultra-high-performance" batteries capable of storing Iowa wind energy. A grant from the Iowa Energy Center is supporting the project.

Iowa State researchers are studying how we use anthropomorphizing language – or words that give human traits to non-human things – when writing about artificial intelligence. Their findings, the researchers report, can help technical and professional communication practitioners reflect on how they think about AI technologies, both as tools in their writing process and in how they write about AI.

Iowa State landscape architecture students partnered with Boone’s Park Commission to design innovative, community-driven plans for future parks and recreation spaces.

As 2025 comes to an end, the Iowa State University News Service team is looking back and sharing some of its favorite and more popular stories of the year.

From first-generation student to a campus leader, Nevaeh Belgrave's experiences, relationships and leadership roles shaped her journey at Iowa State.

Iowa State will celebrate fall graduates with commencement ceremonies Dec. 19-20. An estimated 1,803 students are completing degrees this semester. There is a livestream of the undergraduate and graduate ceremonies for those who cannot attend in person.

From the family ranch in rural Illinois to the rodeo arenas of Wyoming and back to Iowa State, Cal Clucas’s journey to graduation has been anything but ordinary.

The National Academy of Inventors elected Iowa State University agronomy professor Patrick Schnable as a fellow, recognizing the 17 U.S. utility patents and two plant variety protections he holds.

A startup company called Zymosense is developing and marketing nanosensors invented in Nigel Reuel's Iowa State lab. The new tools will help industries track and improve the enzymes used in biotechnology, medicine, drug development, food production and other industrial and everyday applications.

A new study led by Iowa State University researchers shows the mammary glands of pigs, sheep, goats, beef cattle, alpacas and humans are biologically suitable to be infected by H5N1 avian influenza, which has so far affected mostly poultry and dairy cattle.