Starting this week, Iowa State students, faculty and staff can have library resources delivered to their front doors. The library launched two services -- tech lending delivery for students and library material delivery for the university community.
When the Barilla company donated eight pallets of pasta for use at area food pantries, Story County Emergency Management asked for help with transportation and ISU Dining answered the call. In a campus warehouse, staff sorted and repackaged the boxes of pasta for redistribution to 18 locations.
Staff specialists from the environmental health and safety department offer easy-to-implement ergonomic principles to practice in your at-home workspace.
Iowa State scientists are part of a research group developing a viral testing platform that could function inexpensively in rural areas. The research has the potential to address the current pandemic and could make a big difference in future viral outbreaks.
An education and outreach partnership between Iowa State and Des Moines Area Community College faculty was the launchpad for a series of free 15-minute videos, "I'm Working From Home. Now What?"
A new study by the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development projects the economic impact of COVID-19 will be steep for Iowa agriculture, including losses of more than $2 billion each for the hog and ethanol sectors.
County-level assessments of coronavirus risk would help clarify the dangers rural counties face and prevent them from becoming statistically invisible, which creates a false sense of immunity in rural areas, according to ISU sociologist David Peters.
