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The four-year veteran of the dean's office in Gerdin received a five-year appointment.

Creating a welcoming and inclusive experience for all at Iowa State is one of the primary goals of the university's latest strategic plan. A visitors code of conduct is in the works to help reinforce the idea.

Students have many options for relieving the dread of Dead Week, including a new one this fall with ancient roots.

Also during the Dec. 6 meeting, the board approved a campus home for the Nanovaccine Institute, interim leader appointments, new dietetics graduate degree and two bond sales.

Beautiful campus trees shed mounds of crispy leaves each fall for campus services employees to move.

A university president's spouse typically has a role in ceremonies and fundraising, and Robert Waggoner, husband of President Wendy Wintersteen, will be no exception.

President Wendy Wintersteen and her husband expect to move into the Knoll, the campus home for Iowa State's first family, sometime in December. The timing of the move will be coordinated with maintenance and updating projects in the private residence areas.

A new university office dedicated to race and ethnicity training and programming will include coordinating the Thomas L. Hill Iowa State Conference on Race and Ethnicity and Iowa State's participation in the annual National Conference on Race and Ethnicity.

Also on the Dec. 6 agenda: Faculty professional development assignments for FY19 and parking lot improvements adjacent to Hilton Coliseum.

Iowa State's FY19 requests remain unchanged from September: $5 million in incremental operating support and multi-year funding to build a new Veterinary Diagnostic Lab.

Jim Kurtenbach, a tenured associate professor of accounting, plans to return to the College of Business. Kristen Constant, Morrill Professor and chair of the materials science and engineering department will serve as interim vice president and chief information officer, effective Dec. 1.

On her second Monday on the job, President Wendy Wintersteen sat down with Inside to talk about what she plans to do, how she plans to do it and a few other topics.

Several dozen paper forms will become obsolete over the next few years as Iowa State migrates to electronic submission and review systems for research that involves human participants, animal subjects or biohazards.

Student contact information no longer will be publicly available via ISU's online directory. Users with a campus IP address or logged on with their Net-IDs still will be able to access available information.

Three proposed academic programs were introduced to senators and one was discontinued during the Nov. 14 Faculty Senate meeting.

In hopes of becoming a company-creation hotbed, Iowa State has expanded its entrepreneurial ecosystem to give faculty, staff, graduates and students more help to build startups.