Articles Tagged: Iowa State University

As a working designer, before completing her doctorate in apparel design, Zhang had five years of professional experience designing bras. But maternity-specific bras caught her attention — and ire — when she became pregnant with her son a decade ago.

Over the next three years, ISU researchers will use the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention grant to tap and build on efforts of a Walk with Ease program — developed by the Arthritis Foundation to curtail symptoms and improve overall health by incorporating activity into everyday life.

Just like Americans once rushed out to buy toilet paper because of feared price hikes, farmers stocked up on fertilizer last fall, according to Chad Hart, an Iowa State University economics professor and crop market specialist.

The ISU vision for the $200 million CyTown project involves a 135,000-square-foot development including a medical facility, retail space, offices, and luxury suites. The endeavor would include an outdoor public plaza and amphitheater, restaurants and pubs, a hotel and convention center.

Following a breakfast meeting with student leaders on Thursday, Iowa regents decided to increase their state funding request by $1 million. The additional money — if approved by the legislature — would expand mental health services.

An assessment of new U.S. News & World Report rankings out Monday – along with several metrics used to decide them – indicates the University of Iowa and Iowa State University fall below their Board of Regents-assigned peers in many categories, except one key measure: acceptance rate.

Although University of Iowa held steady at its overall national rank of No. 83 in U.S. News & World Report’s new “2022-2023 Best Colleges” assessment out Monday, the campus surged past a string of Ivy League schools on its list of best writing programs to claim the No. 2 spot in the country.

A decade after the University of Iowa could last call itself the largest higher education institution in the state, UI this fall has reclaimed that distinction – reporting higher total enrollment than Iowa State University for the first time since 2012.

Iowa State University recently got a three-year, $727,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to study mung bean varieties to see which ones are most resistant to drought, disease and pests while packing a protein punch sought for growing interest in vegetarian diets.

Marking its highest requested state funding increase in nearly a decade, Iowa’s Board of Regents is seeking $34.7 million more in education appropriations from the Legislature for the next budget year – due, in part, to soaring inflation.

Pruning away dried up programs, degrees, and academic centers while reframing, reformatting, or fashioning anew majors and curricular opportunities meeting student and employer demands is becoming increasingly imperative for institutions vying to attract and retain students from a shrinking pool of applicants.

During the panel discussion, ag scientists highlighted the ways Iowa farmers can diversify their crops to help address food security, but a farmer noted there needs to be a market for any new crop

“When people think $20,000 isn’t a lot, out of my $85,000, that’s a lot for me.”

A tenured Iowa State University art history professor is suing her employer, the state, and three ISU supervisors for violating her civil rights in the way they responded to her COVID-related request to continue teaching online last fall due to an ongoing disability.

Dorm life — which, like everything else, experienced major disruption in the last two years — appeared largely back to normal on the University of Iowa campus Sunday, when students ushered in the annual return-to-campus ritual with the start of residence hall move-in.