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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Lane closures between Pammel Drive and the Squaw Creek bridge will mean one lane of traffic in each direction for about three weeks.

This fall's student body of 31,040 is the largest in school history. It's the fourth year of record enrollment and the sixth consecutive year of growth at Iowa State.

When it looked like lynda.com wouldn't be back on campus this year, the colleges and information technology services came up with the funding to save the popular training site. As a result, ISU students, faculty and staff will continue to have unlimited access to some 1,400 software tutorials.

President Barack Obama's stop at Iowa State Aug. 28 marked just the third time a sitting U.S. president has visited campus.