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The university's golf course is participating in an initiative that provides bees, butterflies and other pollinators with a sustainable, native habitat.

Lisa Shimkat has been named director of Iowa Small Business Development Center, a statewide program coordinated by the College of Business.

Fans gathered in Iowa State Center parking lot Saturday to greet solar car teams from around the country and give a boost to the local favorite -- ISU PrISUm's car Phaeton.

A wall with the names of the 97,002 alumni living in Iowa will serve as the backdrop for the university's Iowa State Fair exhibit that will features "Adventurous Iowa Staters Making Iowa Greater." The exhibit is open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. in the northeast corner of the Varied Industries Building during the Iowa State Fair, Aug. 7-17.

College of Human Sciences hopes to offer master's and doctoral degree programs to meet societal demand and student interest.

The foyer in the biorenewables complex was filled this month with a suspended sculpture, Floating World, by artist Ralph Helmick.

Iowa State offices will co-host a day-long event to provide services and supplies to U.S. veterans and others who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless.

Tanglng with the feds over export controls -- laws to keep some technologies and info out of foreign hands -- can be costly. Here are some useful tips for academics.

Each car, and team members, will be at the checkpoint site for roughly an hour in Saturday's Omaha-to-La Crosse stage.

The teaching auditorium facility on the east side of campus achieved gold certification in the LEED sustainable buildings program. Troxel Hall is Iowa State's eighth LEED-certified building.

This short training video will have you sniffing out fraudulent email links and web pages in no time.

A website created this spring by horticulture students allows faculty, staff and students to purchase fresh vegetables and fruits grown at the university's horticulture research farm north of Ames.

External funding at Iowa State increased to $368.4 million in the fiscal year that ended June 30. That's a 12.9 percent increase from the previous year's total of $326.4 million, and the second-highest total for the university.

University Human Resources is preparing to launch a major upgrade to PeopleAdmin 7.0, Iowa State’s online classification and hiring system. The upgrade will streamline the hiring process for both hiring managers and job applicants. It's expected to go live after Sept. 8.

A major upgrade to boost ISU network capacity from 10 GB to 100 GB hit a snag Wednesday when a malfunction in the new equipment brought down the university phone system, and to a lesser extent, other online campus services.

A revamped version of the MyState mobile application is a collaboration of resources and staff from the College of Engineering and Information Technology Services.

For the fiscal year that began July 1, President Steven Leath received and approved proposals from his three senior vice presidents on uses for $39.94 million in new revenue. Iowa State will continue its multi-year investment in the four broad priorities identified by Leath in fall 2012.