News Archive

Phase 2 of the complex will become the home of the agricultural and biosystems engineering department by fall.

This year's partial shutdown, Dec. 23-Jan. 1, allows many employees to opt for a little extra R&R and the university to lower its energy bill.

A shrub that is rare in northern climates adds a splash of purple to the fall colors on campus.

ISU Plan participants may review and change their benefits Nov. 1-22. Find out what's new for 2014.

See which ISU programs enroll the most undergraduate students.

Twenty-nine new faculty positions have been approved in the first year of funding for a presidential initiative to hire faculty in targeted areas.

Starting Nov. 1, the hiring process for certain temporary employee positions at Iowa State is changing. Find out how you may be impacted.

Regent-appointed task force asked to recommend new model for allocating state funds to the three universities.

For their first design-build project, teams of architecture student created houses . . . for chickens. View their efforts on the College of Design lawn through Oct. 25.

Martino Harmon is Iowa State's new associate vice president of student affairs. He joined the university Sept. 9.

Nonsupervisory merit employees will have a chance to review and change their benefits during the open change period, Oct. 18 to Nov. 18.

Hoping for a 4 percent increase in state operating funds next year, Iowa State leaders support a second tuition freeze for resident undergraduate students in 2014-15.

The former horse pasture east of Haber Road is sprouting the first of two plantings to establish native prairie grasses that complement storm water management and help control runoff into Squaw Creek.

Officials began posting public records requests online this week. The postings are part of university follow-through on the recommendations of a regents-appointed task force on transparency.

Four broad priorities identified last fall will continue to drive budget plans, as will recommendations emerging from two ongoing study groups.

Members of the Professional and Scientific Council endorsed four draft policies dealing with P&S personnel issues, and pushed through a resolution to acknowledge the contributions of long-time council member Dan Woodin, who died Sept. 24.