Two and a half years after Iowa State University began a review of its naming of Catt Hall after controversial women’s suffrage-leader Carrie Chapman Catt, a 17-member review committee last week cast an initial — but not unanimous — vote to keep the name on the central campus academic building.
Mirroring the energy-drink tide swelling across the country of late, a University of Iowa health assessment this year indicated undergraduate and graduate consumption of the caffeine-boosted beverages is surging — even past national averages, which also are on the rise.
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While fans of both schools have asked why athletes would risk losing eligibility and possibly going to jail over relatively small amounts of money, National Council on Problem Gambling executive director Keith Whyte said he isn't surprised by allegations of athletes betting on their own games and risking a permanent ban.
Iowa State University’s campus cooling system was back up and running Friday morning after a Thursday fire at the campus power plant knocked out its cooling system — canceling classes, closing buildings, and sending many students packing just days into the start of the fall semester.
A fire at Iowa State University’s power plant has disrupted the cooling system on campus, prompting the school to move classes online and encourage students living on campus to go home for the weekend.
Iowa’s public universities are back in session, with students kicking off the fall semester this week under sweltering heat — making the start especially uncomfortable for some of the tens of thousands who moved into residence hall rooms without air conditioning.
Bugeja’s concern about false information is one of many AI-related worries facing instructors and professors as students return to campus this fall. Others include plagiarism, misrepresentation, and various forms of cheating and technology-aided shortcuts students might employ, depriving themselves of material learning and tricking instructors into thinking they produced or wrote content they didn’t.
In 1900, almost three-fourths of Iowa population lived on farms or in small towns. By 2010, only 36 percent of Iowans remained in rural areas. Most small Iowa towns will never gain population again. That’s why some have turned their focus from growing numbers, to growing quality of life.
“I’ve been working on corn specifically for 35 years,” said Alan Myers, an Iowa State University professor of biochemistry, biophysics, and molecular biology since 1987, who has made it his “maize” mission to amplify the sweet-corn experience by making sweet corn sweeter.
Iowa State University is doing on-farm trials on 148 fields across the state this summer to try to find the optimum rate of nitrogen fertilizer to boost corn productivity, while avoiding runoff into rivers and lakes.
Iowa State University researchers journey statewide to learn about the rusty patched bumblebee, which has declined by about 90 percent.
Just over a year after starting as Iowa State University’s director of equal opportunity and Title IX coordinator, Carl Wells on Tuesday left for a job back in South Carolina as associate dean for campus life at Newberry College — a 167-year-old private Lutheran college.
These are the first student-athletes to be charged in an investigation into sports gambling by student-athletes at Iowa State and Iowa.
Both the Hawkeye and Cyclone athletic programs in the new budget year are anticipating record-breaking revenue — with the University of Iowa predicting a threefold spike in women’s basketball income, pushing it past the $1 million mark for the first time to a projected $1.3 million.
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