More than 1,800 students are completing degrees at Iowa State this semester. Many of them will participate in a graduation event on Friday or Saturday. NASA astronaut and Iowa native Peggy Whitson will receive an honorary degree and give the commencement address.
The Faculty Senate closed out the semester at its Dec. 10 meeting with unanimous approval of two new academic programs and the discontinuation of another. A slew of handbook policy revisions are on the docket for 2014.
Landscape architecture senior Qiyi Li endeavored to create an installation for her senior Honors project this fall. The result is a stop-you-in-your-tracks project that fills a good piece of the atrium at the College of Design.
If Iowa Legislature funds regents' 4 percent increase in state operating support, resident undergraduates would pay 2012-13 tuition rates for the third year in a row.
The state Board of Regents' Dec. 4 telephonic meeting will originate from the ISU Alumni Center. Live audio stream of the proceedings is available on the board's website.
The initiative includes recruiting top doctoral students in strategic areas, matching funds to help colleges recruit graduate students, and providing bridge funding to help researchers manage projects when there are delays or gaps in external funding.
The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences will forward 50 percent of the commissions it receives from the Global Café in Curtiss Hall's Harl Commons back into its programs to support Ugandan children and farm families.
President Leath is calling on all faculty and staff to complete online training on discrimination and harassment and Title IX. Training will be available, beginning Dec. 3.
