Donor support helped the student health and wellness team provide meals for students when construction and weather earlier this month quashed plans A and B for providing food .
The Ag Engineering/Agronomy Farm is his home base, but Nathan Meyers also is the go-to guy for equipment modifications and precision ag upgrades at the university's other 14 research and demonstration farms.
Curator Deb Lewis safeguards more than 700,000 plant specimens at the Ada Hayden Herbarium. Some of the earliest were prepared by alumnus George Washington Carver.
Costume shop supervisor Doris Nash can turn a Sharpie-on-a-cocktail-napkin sketch into a perfectly fitting stage costume. She's been dressing ISU Theatre actors since 1989.
Ann Lelis, the lone paralegal in the university counsel office, processes public records requests for the university and serves as policy library administrator.
Two changes prompt the need: Another state tax bracket was eliminated for 2024, and withholdings on the Iowa W-4 changed from an allowance number to a dollar amount to align with the method of counting on the federal W-4.
Employees should plan to pay more attention to their health care and pay a larger share of the (nonpreventive) medical services they receive in 2024. But they also should keep scheduling a host of preventive health services that are free.
From Jan. 27 to Feb. 25, student information will be moved from legacy systems, such as AccessPlus and ADIN, into Workday. The bulk of the data transfer will take place Feb. 10-18. The 24/7 process may cause slower results when faculty and staff initiate reports or complete tasks in Workday.
After June 30, Jonathan Wickert will continue to serve Iowa State as professor of mechanical engineering, President's Chair in Engineering and provost emeritus.
Glean, available as a web, desktop or mobile application, converts speech to text and provides students with disabilities an equitable way to learn. The tool is available to students for free, to faculty and staff for $24/year.
English associate professor Abram Anders said he was excited to see students use AI as a tool to aid their education, not to replace their learning or do work for them. Anders believes instructors need a good understanding of what AI tools can and can't do before introducing them into their courses.
University employees may participate in political activities if they are acting on their own behalf and using their own personal time and resources -- but not their university computer or Iowa State email account.
The first significant snowfall this winter brought 8.8 inches of heavy, wet white stuff -- perfect for snow sculptures. Campus services teams were out in force clearing campus Tuesday and Wednesday.
Faculty, staff, students and other experts will lead an expanded group of breakout sessions at the free symposium designed to focus on welcoming, belonging and well-being. Registration is open.
Faculty and staff are encouraged to share these opportunities from the new Center for Student Educational Success, a funded initiative of the university's strategic plan.
Employees within campus units should coordinate among themselves in advance and have a plan for occasions when the university remains open, but weather conditions may make it difficult for employees to travel to campus.
