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Unlike traditional pre-health majors, the comprehensive program focuses on health and wellness from multiple angles, with classes in life sciences, behavior and social sciences, data sciences and the humanities. Enrollment opens this fall.

Instructors can help by submitting course material requests as early as possible and taking advantage of options such as course reserves and open educational resources.

The Everyday Marketplace portal features offerings that respond to three expressed preferences from Iowa State employees: increase their financial wellness, reduce their financial stress and access benefits that meet their current needs.

Effective March 1, president Jeff Johnson is on a temporary medical leave of absence to address treatment plans and manage his recent Parkinson's disease diagnosis.

Other items from the Iowa Board of Regents' February meeting: Two spring honorary degrees, building renovations, a new board committee, another ISU degree of the future and first reads of parking and student housing rates for fall.

If you own a name that's vulnerable to mispronunciation, Workday offers a task that lets users submit an audio clip, a phonetic spelling or both in their profile.

Seventeen Iowa State programs will illustrate for legislators how Iowa State innovation builds the state's economy, supports its nation-leading agricultural industry and prepares students for future careers.

President Wendy Wintersteen outlined requests for FY2026 totaling $11.8 million for seven initiatives to enhance Iowa's rural economy and support Iowa businesses.

Opportunities like the Culinary Boot Camp draw students from all majors who learn essential cooking techniques while earning course credits and practicing food safety and strategies to reduce food waste.

More than 30 students and 11 members of the Faculty Senate discussed four preset topics for more than an hour.

The basic design of the retirement program with TIAA will remain the same, as will contribution rates and eligibility requirements.

An employee team has completed a months-long project in Workday Adaptive Planning to bring budget planning and analysis for all university funds into Workday. Previously, only the general operating fund portion of the university budget was managed there.

More than 130 faculty and staff participated in Wednesday's civics instruction professional development conference at the Memorial Union, the first major event in Iowa State's new Cyclone Civics initiative.

It is the first statewide effort in the nation to help families find near-real time child care vacancies in their area. The website launched in August and is being visited hundreds of times each month.

Also on the Iowa Board of Regents' Feb. 27 agenda are requests for two honorary degrees, ramp parking permit increases and two building renovation projects.

And benefits director Ed Holland introduced two benefits initiatives that will be implemented yet this semester: additional voluntary benefits and enhancements to the TIAA retirement plan.

The new online degree -- which combines health and technology to enhance the delivery, management and monitoring of health care -- is a first in the state and has students from across the country and as far away as Egypt. Enrollment doubled from fall to spring semester.

Iowa State currently has 1,154 active contracts and grants with the federal government. To understand the size and scope of the orders, Dorhout and peers have used previous government shutdowns as a blueprint.

The first significant snowfall of the semester lightened pedestrian traffic on central campus Wednesday morning.