Faculty and P&S staff with satisfactory work evaluations will receive a two-part salary increase in the fiscal year that begins July 1 -- an initial 1% increase on July 1, a second 1% on Oct. 1. All merit employees will receive a 2.1% increase on July 1 consistent with the state contract.

Improved service delivery specialists and central offices will have access to Workday July 1, with campuswide rollout early July 2.

Senior associate registrar Jennifer Suchan is serving as interim university registrar, effective June 17.

Required faculty-staff advisers provide student organizations a built-in mentor and liaison, offer a measure of oversight and, hopefully, give the employee serving as an adviser a gratifying chance to mentor learning leaders.

Failing pavement in a heavily used intersection will require a 5-6 week closure to reconstruct the roadway. Both roads will be closed to through traffic beginning July 8.

The newly named office of strategic relations and communications replaces the office of university relations, effective July 3.

After finishing eighth among 22 scored teams earlier this month at a competition in Barrie, Ontario, Canada, Iowa State's Formula SAE race team will compete in the Formula SAE competition in Lincoln, Nebraska, June 19-22.

New research may explain why an antioxidant that protects the brain also is associated with deterioration in areas susceptible to Alzheimer's disease.

Researchers have found biochar could be a slow-release fertilizer that delivers nutrients to crops while keeping those nutrients from washing away in the rain or leaching into groundwater.

• Bradley Hill, Mississippi State University, Starkville, to Memorial Union associate director for operations, effective July 8
• Jennifer Owens, director of student academic services, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS), to LAS director of student services

• Retirement, Mark Dobbe, Central Stores, logistics and support services, June 20 (1-3 p.m., 162 General Services Building)
• Retirement, Linda Brinkmeyer, office of the vice president for extension and outreach, June 21 (2:30-4 p.m., 2150 Beardshear)

• Retirement, Ellen Price, Ames Laboratory accounting, June 25 (1:30-3 p.m., 140 Technical and Administrative Services Facility)
• Retirement, Carl Bern, agricultural and biosystems engineering, June 26 (1-3 p.m., program at 1 p.m., Sukup atrium, Biorenewables Complex)
• Retirement, Bob Dodds, county services, ISU Extension and Outreach, June 27 (2:30-4 p.m., 3150 Beardshear)
• Retirement, Debbie Bahr, Family Transitions Project, human development and family studies, June 28 (no public event)
• Retirement, Vicki Kopecky, IT services, June 28 (no public event)

• Retirement, Gloria Hill, Center for Biorenewable Chemicals, July 1 (no public event)
• Retirement, Deb Schoelkoph, admissions, July 1 (1:30-3 p.m., 311 Enrollment Services Center)
• Retirement, Mike Stecker, residence department, July 1 (2-4 p.m., 136 Union Drive Community Center)
• Retirement, John McCarroll, university relations, July 2 (no public event)