This long, cold winter eventually will end, making spring a welcome respite for Iowa State's streets, sidewalks, buildings and the employees who maintain them.
An audit of wireless service in campus and residence buildings is helping ITS design an optimal access map that could triple the coverage in the future.
Iowa State is a partner in a new Digital Lab for Manufacturing to be based in Chicago with affiliated partners across the country. Announced recently by President Barack Obama, the lab is designed to be the country's flagship research institute for digital manufacturing and design innovation.
The campus community is invited to give feedback on proposed designs for a renovation of the Hub's west patio area. The concepts will be on display at a March 6 open house and online.
Achievements that helped capture a gold rating in higher education sustainabilty, award presentations, and green products and services were part of the university's annual sustainability symposium Feb. 25.
"We try to be very good stewards of your money," President Steven Leath told members of the Legislature's Education Appropriations Subcommittee last Thursday. Iowa State's general appropriations request is a 4 percent increase.
The team tasked with making sure lectures are captured asks faculty to plan ahead – and share your plans – so that faculty who need to be in a capture-equipped classroom are assigned to one.
More than a dozen horses were moved to the new Equine Learning Center last week. The facility adds 23+ stalls and additional learning space for the animal science department's equine teaching program.
This year's sustainability symposium (Feb. 24-25) includes a best-selling author, campus leaders discussing successes and challenges and green-it-yourself demonstrations.
Universities teaming up to transform information technology in a big way, plans to expand ISU's wireless network and a spam-sending refrigerator all got a mention in CIO Jim Davis' recent update on "IT futures."
