Four candidates will have an opportunity to interview on campus for Iowa State's top job. Details will be released soon about the on-campus interviews, which begin next week.

Experts involved in creating the university's newest learning spaces say flexibility is a top trend in modern classroom design, making it easier to use active and team-based teaching styles to engage students. Adaptability and other features common in new classrooms are informed in part by faculty input.

The search timelines are structured so that Iowa State's next president, once named, will participate in the interviews and hiring decisions.

Incremental state support, a request of $5 million for Iowa State, would be designated for resident undergraduate financial aid.

A new communication management and engagement tool will enhance the prospective student experience during the recruitment process, which starts next month.

Current events, police response and hate crimes are the focus of the next campus conversation Tuesday, Oct. 3 (3-5 p.m., 198 Parks Library). It will include an ISU police presentation on hate crimes as well as small group discussions. All are welcome.

An Iowa State study is one of the first to demonstrate the consequences of allowing children to have TVs or video game systems in their bedrooms. Children spent less time reading, sleeping or participating in other activities. Consequently, they did not do as well in school and were at greater risk for obesity and video game addiction.

Among the 54 university employees honored during a Sept. 25 ceremony were Audrey Kennis and Tera Jordan, the inaugural recipients of the university's Award for Inclusive Excellence.

Iowa State's programs in interior design, landscape architecture and architecture are ranked in the top 25 in the United States, according to a practioners survey.

• Ratnesh Kumar, professor of electrical and computer engineering, to the Murray J. and Ruth M. Harpole Professorship in Electrical Engineering
• Julie Dickerson, professor of electrical and computer engineering, to the Northrop Grumman Professorship

• Retirement: Barb Burnett, printing and copy services, Sept. 29 (1-3 p.m., MU Pioneer Room)
• Retirement: William Haman, Iowa Energy Center, Sept. 29 (no public event)
• Retirement: Denise Junod, Iowa Energy Center, Sept. 29 (no public event)
• Retirement: Norman Olson, Iowa Energy Center, Sept. 29 (no public event)

• Reception: "Everything to Everybody" exhibit, Oct. 7 (2-4 p.m., Design on Main gallery, 203 Main St.)

• Reception: "Faces of Iowa State" exhibit, with artist Rose Frantzen, Oct. 10 (7-8:30 p.m., Brunnier Art Museum, 295 Scheman)
• Reception: "Headspace" exhibit, with artist Meghan Flynn, Oct. 13 (6-7:30 p.m., MU Pioneer Room)