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Facilities officials are beginning to see some savings from energy-efficient projects that were partially funded by government stimulus funds. Jeff Witt, director of utilities, estimates that Iowa State will save some $460,000 in energy costs annually as a result of projects.

Iowa Staters on campus share the stories behind their one-of-a-kind Cyclone vehicle plates.

Progress continues on the athletics department's state-of-the-art Cyclone Sports Complex south of campus.

Wohlgemuth holds a joint appointment with Enrollment Services and the Office of the Senior Vice President and Provost. He leads Iowa State's enrollment research team.

Each weekend in July will feature amateur competitions on campus and in Ames as part of the Iowa Summer Games. July 13-15 packs a particularly full schedule, including an opening ceremony Friday evening just outside Jack Trice Stadium.

When seven years of phased construction and an investment of nearly $120 million in the College of Veterinary Medicine campus wraps up later this summer, the college will have added about 40 percent more space to its 1976 facility and renovated more than a third of existing space. Dean Lisa Nolan says the facilities are second to none.

It was a busy couple of weeks for Iowa Staters staffing the university's Smithsonian Folklife Festival exhibit on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Next stops for the high-tech exhibit are the Iowa State Fair in mid-August and the Farm Progress Show in Boone in late August.

Associate provost David Holger and College of Design dean Luis Rico-Gutierrez will co-chair a 20-member committee tasked with finding a successor to Engineering dean Jonathan Wickert, who becomes senior vice president and provost on July 30. The committee is accepting nominations now.

Despite the active nesting behaviors displayed by Lake LaVerne's swans, no baby Lancelots or Elaines are in the future for Iowa State's famous feathered duo.

Tidy Cats cat litter users can help pilot a glass recycling effort on campus this summer simply by bringing in their empties. Officials hope the pilot program will prove to be an effective way to keep broken, discarded glass from Iowa State labs out of the Ames Resource Recovery Plant.

While the heat wave may dampen your walk to and from the car, it shouldn't affect the temps inside your office this week.

Well-wishers gathered in Beardshear Hall last week to thank Elizabeth Hoffman for her many contributions as Iowa State's executive vice president and provost.

Seven Iowa State students played essential roles in the creation of ISU's exhibit on display now at the 2012 Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, D.C.

The culprit for a dark campus last Tuesday afternoon was a rotted tree north of the Applied Sciences Complex -- and unfortunately along a major electrical line owned by the city of Ames. Here's a look at the process of restoring power to campus.

Volunteers pulled 25 bags of trash from the banks and bottom of College Creek during the annual cleanup Saturday.

Keeping your keepsakes in shoeboxes, plastic bags and old photo albums? Hilary Seo, head of preservation for university libraries, has better ideas.

Longtime admissions officer Phil Caffrey will step into the interim director position when current admissions director Marc Harding departs to take a position at the University of Pittsburgh in mid-July

Following about 15 months of construction, tenants are moving in this week to the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences' renovated student services mall on the ground floor of Curtiss Hall.

Mufit Akinc, an Iowa State faculty member since 1981, has been named interim dean of the College of Engineering effective July 30. He succeeds Jonathan Wickert, who will assume the role of senior vice president and provost at Iowa State on the same date.