News Archive

Karl Mueller started June 1 in his new role as director of the Ames National Laboratory. He also holds the rank of tenured professor in the chemistry department.

Brady Talley is the new director of the Military-Affiliated Student Center in the Memorial Union. Previously, he worked in several student success roles for the Ivy College of Business.

Regent JC Risewick and Faculty Senate president Meghan Gillette will co-chair the 12-member committee. Washington, D.C.-based AGB Search will assist with the search.

It's new student orientation season, and incoming first-year students played games in small groups on the Memorial Union lawn Monday afternoon to get to know each other and learn more about Iowa State, as part of their transition to college life.

Effective July 1, the reappointment of Dawn Bratsch-Prince extends through June 30, 2030. She has overseen faculty development and success programs since 2010.

Student journalists and faculty will travel to Dublin Aug. 14-25 to cover the Aer Lingus College Football Classic, featuring Iowa State and Kansas State. Their stories will be distributed across KCCI 8 news platforms.

Foote, the association's senior vice president of administration, marketing, communications and membership, will oversee the process of combining Iowa State's alumni association and foundation.

The regents also will take action on FY 2026 salary policies for the various employee groups and a proposed 3% market adjustment to the P&S pay grade structure, and conduct performance evaluations with the university presidents and the board's executive director.

The music department's summer carillon concert series, a biannual event going back 20+ years and featuring visiting carillonneurs, is in full swing. It's organized by university carillonneur and Cownie Professor of Music Tin-Shi Tam. The free monthly performances (always a Tuesday) begin at 7 p.m.

Summer is anything but slow for the professionals in facilities planning and management who oversee campus construction and renovation projects. Inside provides a quick look at about a dozen projects starting, finishing or continuing this summer.

Iowa State will welcome thousands of guests this summer who are using campus facilities for camps, conferences and competitions.

Six areas for improvement could guide the council's future work. Senior vice president and provost Jason Keith also attended his first council meeting.

Experienced project managers are available for part-time assignments on research teams -- in any field -- that could benefit from the professional help and whose projects aren't yet large enough for a full-time project manager. This central model frees up researchers' time for the pieces they're really good at and will help keep talented project managers at the university.

The Iowa Legislature approved nearly $1.7 million in additional appropriations for Iowa State that focus on the state's agriculture economy. Those increases represent about 15% of the additional state support university leaders first outlined last fall.

About $1.1 million in multiple 2022-31 strategic plan awards, combined with $442,000 in other university funds, brought renovations to two campus child care locations that feature security upgrades, playground and classroom improvements, new heating/cooling systems and lighting replacements.

The spring class of 2025 includes an estimated 3,955 undergraduate students, 528 students earning a master's degree, 138 students earning a Ph.D. and 149 Doctor of Veterinary Medicine candidates.

Information technology's audiovisual live events team will provide livestreaming and recording for the three undergraduate ceremonies, Graduate and Veterinary Medicine college commencements, five college convocations and an engineering department celebration this week.

In November 2017, Wendy Wintersteen became the first woman and second ISU alum to hold the university's highest office when she was named Iowa State's 16th president.