Attention new faculty: There's still time to register for the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT) Teaching Symposium (Aug. 18) and New Faculty Orientation (Aug. 19). The registration deadline for both events is Aug. 14.
More metered parking spots, extended free parking hours and a smartphone meter-feeding app are among new wrinkles on the campus parking scene this fall.
Board also approves presidential salary increases and a nonprofit facilties corporation and cremation garden concept for Iowa State, and clears the way for design to begin on the Student Innovation Center.
Four sculptures perched outside Marston Hall's fourth floor are being cleaned and repaired this week as part of restoration work on the limestone art. The Muses represent the four engineering disciplines offered by the college in 1900, when construction began.
University marketing and ISU Extension and Outreach are partnering for this year's state fair exhibit, "Camp Cy: A Statewide Adventure." The interactive display will showcase ISU's work in all 99 Iowa counties.
Vegetables and fruits grown at the ISU horticulture farm north of Ames may be purchased by university employees and students. A website is updated weekly to let you know what's available.
A cremation garden for the university cemetery, $3.6 million electron microscope purchase, presidential salaries and a nonprofit facilities corporation also are on the Aug. 5 agenda.
