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Faculty, professional and scientific staff, contract employees and post docs with satisfactory performance evaluations this year will receive a minimum salary increase of 1 percent on July 1. Salary increases above 5 percent will require a senior VP's approval.

In his report at the May 6 Faculty Senate meeting, provost Jonathan Wickert shared the demographics of the 82 promotion and tenure cases he reviewed this year. He also provided a "where are they now" look at the group of faculty hired in the fall 2008.

A sunlit row was a popular spot at Parks Library this week.

An estimated 250 trees are being planted around the Iowa State Center and over 200 more will be added to the campus landscape this spring.

Students who spent the semester inventing new food creations, from recipe development to industrial scale-up, cooked up a tasty food-sampling event in MacKay Hall on Tuesday.

Summer won't slow the state Board of Regents TIER review of its three universities, but it will bring a shift in focus.

Twenty-seven faculty and staff are members of the 2014-15 Emerging Leaders Academy.

Hach Hall basement labs, parking permit increases, new residence and dining rates, and adjustment to public radio funding also get the green light at April 24 board meeting.

Research teams that received funding last year through the Presidential Initiative for Interdisciplinary Research will give detail their progress in a May 9 presentation. President Steven Leath will host.

Construction crews are making progress on renovations in MacKay Hall, scheduled for completion in July.

President Steven Leath will appoint a working group to consider a consulting firm's recommendations on strengthening diversity at Iowa State and come up with an implementation plan. The firm, which has been reviewing ISU diversity programs and resources over the past year, recently submitted its final report to the president.

Students in spring creative-thinking class raise awareness of environmental problems with their garment designs.

Faculty members are needed to participate in a new e-book pilot project sponsored by the University Book Store.

Two more public forums to share feedback with members of the Veishea task force have been scheduled for May 7 and May 11. Meeting details, a feedback submission form and archived meeting and open forum videos are available on the task force website.

My Grandparents in the War, an original play by ISU theater lecturer Matt Foss, begins its four-day run at Fisher Theater on Thursday, May 1. The story is based on the experiences of Foss' maternal grandparents during World War II and subsequent years.

Status of Women at Iowa State University, completed by a subcommittee of the University Committee on Women, builds on a 2002 report of the same name.

Vice president for research Sarah Nusser and Government of the Student Body president Hillary Kletscher addressed members of the Faculty Senate April 23. Nusser provided an overview of the reorganized research office and Kletscher told senators about a student-driven effort to create a "culture shift" in Veishea behavior.

The university community will redouble information security efforts in the wake of a breach of several servers reported earlier this week. In a letter today to senior leaders, President Steven Leath and senior vice president and provost Jonathan Wickert laid out a plan to tighten information security on several fronts, ranging from scans of university systems for protected information to stronger password requirements.

Students in Iowa State's three ROTC services (Army, Navy and Air Force) participated in a combined Change of Command Ceremony on central campus April 22.