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Feb. 13, 2025

Inside news

The future is here for digital health students

The new online degree -- which combines health and technology to enhance the delivery, management and monitoring of health care -- is a first in the state and has students enrolled from across the country and as far away as Egypt. Enrollment doubled from fall to spring semester.


Dorhout discusses impact of executive orders with faculty senators

Iowa State currently has 1,154 active contracts and grants with the federal government. To understand the size and scope of the orders, vice president for research Peter Dorhout and his peers have used previous government shutdowns as a blueprint.


P&S Council opens nominations for spring vacancies 

And benefits director Ed Holland shared with council members an overview of two benefits initiatives that will be implemented yet this semester: additional voluntary benefits and enhancements to the TIAA retirement plan.


ISU police play key role in stopping predatory group

An Iowa State student's call for help in 2020 led ISU police officers down a long and often disturbing path, but after four years has resulted in federal indictments for a ring of sexual predators accused of preying on young women around the world. 

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Announcements

The following announcements were added this week:

  • Open education proposals for Miller mini-grants due April 14
  • Shared-use kitchens workshop is March 31-April 1
  • Town/Gown annual Musicale is Feb. 22
  • Wedding open house is Feb. 23 at alumni center
  • Funding assistance available for summer faculty success program
  • Innovation lunch club meets virtually on Feb. 14
  • Reminder: Register for P&S employee conference
  • Memorial service is Feb. 15 for former faculty member Roger Berger
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Around campus

Carver's dye is on loan to the Met

A bottle of Egyptian Blue pigment hand mixed by George Washington Carver, part of the treasure in Special Collections and University Archives, is on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. The exhibition, "Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876-Now," runs through Feb. 17.


An impressive nonstop flight

An Iowa State study led by natural resource ecology and management professor Stephen Dinsmore found migratory shorebirds who refuel in Iowa can travel thousands of miles to their winter home in South America without stopping.

Appointments

  • Mark Raymond, University of Johannesburg, to chair of the department of architecture, effective July 1

Retirements

Employees, their colleagues or supervisors are invited to submit retirements and departures to inside@iastate.edu. Inside doesn't receive this information from a central source.


Upcoming

  • Hillary Howard, contract administration, real estate and capital planning, March 3 (no public event)

Learning opportunities

Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT) programming

Register online.


Digital accessibility programming

  • Siteimprove webinar series, Keep It Moving: Navigating WCAG Principle 2 for an Operable Web, Feb. 13 (10-10:30 a.m.), register


University Library programming

Register in advance. Workshops meet in The Catalyst (199 Parks Library) unless noted.

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