Nuclear engineering alumnus specializes in alternative energy wastewater...
Mike Locascio uses fluid dynamics knowledge to consult for ethanol plants, distilleries and other industries Most students have a moment where they are sitting in a class thinking they will never use...
View ArticleR. Christopher Williams awarded utility patent for asphalt materials...
Civil, construction and environmental engineering professor uses Iowa agricultural products to create bioasphalt Asphalt materials affect everyone in the country, from the roads we drive on to the...
View ArticleComputer engineering alumnus mentors Iowa State grads building solutions for...
Brian Hemesath’s entrepreneurial drive has landed him in a position to help fellow Cyclones’ business opportunities As the managing director of the Global Insurance Accelerator, Brian Hemesath says...
View ArticleIowa State undergraduates showcase their research at annual Capitol event...
With research on sciatic nerve regeneration, the implications of marginal tax rates on housing prices, honey bee survival and extreme winter precipitation in the Upper Mississippi River Basin, there...
View ArticleChris Hill of CIRAS educates manufacturers about automation concepts
Automation is increasingly a driving force behind manufacturing. A group of area business representatives and educators spent Tuesday learning about robotics and toured Acieta’s Council Bluffs facility...
View ArticleCopper thefts source of ‘attacks’ on Iowa power grid
America’s power grid, providing electricity to hundreds of millions of homes and businesses, has come under attack more than 360 times in the past three years from hackers, thieves and vandals,...
View ArticleDaily reporter gets hacked
One hour is how long it could take for my identity to be stolen. And that’s how long it took three graduate students to create a website façade that would allow them to see the password that could lead...
View ArticleNearly 700 Iowa school students to show off research at state science and...
Eric Koehlmoos knows just how far a science project can take an Iowa student. On Monday, the senior at Paullina’s South O’Brien High School was at the 2015 White House Science Fair explaining his...
View ArticleNinety-three years later
Crews made great progress over spring break dismantling the 93-year-old Davidson Hall on Osborne Drive, former home of the agricultural and biosystems engineering department. Less than two weeks lapsed...
View ArticleABE alumnus honored by Quad Cities American Society of Agricultural and...
Jeremiah Johnson, an engineer with the Technology Development Group of the John Deere Harvester Works, was named Young Member of the Year for providing leadership for the section this past year as its...
View ArticleIowa State University Announces the Vermeer International Leadership Program
Iowa State University has announced the 18 students selected to make up the inaugural class of a new leadership opportunity for students for the 2015-2016 academic year, sponsored by Vermeer...
View ArticleGlobal Gala brings cultures together
Colorful flags from all over the globe adorned the walls in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union as students prepared for the Global Gala, a live show celebrating Iowa State’s diversity. This was the...
View ArticleIowa State design students help Fareway Stores launch a new venture
When Fareway Stores Inc. looked to expand its reach from retail stores to a new wholesale business, company representatives sought help from the Iowa State University College of Design in creating a...
View ArticleME alumnus wins SOLIDWORKS Model Mania Contest
Would the fastest designer in the room please stand? For 16 years, the fastest designers have been standing up to accept prizes at theSOLIDWORKS World convention. Every year there is a competition...
View ArticleIowa State professor and Ph.D. student explore new phase transformation...
Researchers focused on the effect of elastic energy on nucleation. Valery Levitas, Schafer Professor and faculty member of aerospace engineering and of mechanical engineering, continues to work on the...
View ArticleCivil engineering alumnus offers ‘cures’ for road worries in Minnesota
Anna Conda feared encountering snakes on the highway. Fuzzy I. Site had bouts of blurry vision during winter driving. S. Patrick Day wondered why his skin was turning green. Ready with a cure for these...
View ArticleMechanical engineering graduate student selected for international NSF...
Jeremy Caplin will travel to Seoul National University for international collaborations The National Science Foundation (NSF) East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI) recently announced the...
View ArticleFive engineering alumni named STATEment Makers by Alumni Association
Iowa ‘STATEment Makers’ is an honor that recognizes the early personal and professional accomplishments and contributions to society of Iowa State University’s young alumni (graduates 32 years of age...
View ArticleISU students have opportunity to learn about, care for baby horses at horse farm
After a few clumsy steps, Quency collapsed into the straw and immediately fell asleep, her mother standing over her protectively. Quency was born Monday morning — the 17th foal to be born this spring...
View ArticleComedy troupe represents benefits of working together
Imagine being on stage. The spotlight is shining, everyone is silent and the audience waits eagerly for a move to be made. Nervous? This is exactly what improvisationial comedy troupe Grandma Mojo’s...
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