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Up to three teams will receive pursuit funding of $500,000 annually for three years to land large-scale research grants to pursue research questions of state and national importance.

At their Sept. 13 meeting, members of the Professional and Scientific Council were updated on efforts to create a professional development program, including a spring conference for employees.

All are invited to attend the 2012 university awards ceremony on Friday, Sept. 21, where faculty and staff recipients of the university's most distinguished awards will be honored.

An 11-day stretch during the break includes three university holidays (Dec. 24, 25 and Jan. 1), four weekend days and four workdays (Dec. 26-28, 31). Employees who don't work on the four workdays would be required to take paid or unpaid leave for those days.

Iowa State's chief room scheduler talks about "prime time," juggling and finding homes for 5,000-plus course sections.

Graduate students in the college's integrated visual arts program have studio, gallery spaces on Ames' Main Street.

President Leath announced a goal to raise $150 million in private gifts for student financial aid over five years. Among other goals unveiled in his installation remarks: Provide students with a high-quality, broad-based, affordable education and develop partnerships that strengthen the economy and make other positive differences in Iowans' lives.

Student team leads effort to reconfigure the College of Design's studio space in the Armory.

First funding pitch to the state will be included in board's appropriations request for FY14.

A multidisciplinary doctorate in wind energy, science, engineering and policy was approved at the Faculty Senate's first meeting of the academic year Sept. 11.

Recipients of the university's most distinguished awards for faculty and staff will be honored; a reception will follow.

Iowa State's occupational medicine staff will administer flu shots at no cost to employees (while supplies last) weekdays from Oct. 3 to Oct. 19.

Iowa State history will be written Friday morning, when Steven Leath is installed as the university's 15th president. The 90-minute ceremony in Stephens Auditorium will include a colorful procession, Leath's vision for Iowa State and beautiful music that strikes a few Cyclone-pleasing chords.

Eight months after the caucuses, candidates still are lavishing attention on Iowa. In this rerun of an article that ran in Inside Iowa State a number of months ago, university counsel Paul Tanaka answers questions on campus political activities.

FY14 state appropriation requests and the future of tuition set aside are among the agenda items.

Erskine Bowles, who is at the center of dialogue on America's deficit crisis, will give a public address on the national debt Sept. 13 and participate in the installation ceremony for president Steven Leath on Sept. 14.

1858. It's the year Iowa State was founded, and it's also the university's new signature coffee.