The new banner set still features a simple design, with updated photos, representing each of Iowa State's six Principles of Community: respect, purpose, cooperation, richness of diversity, freedom from discrimination, and honest and respectful expression of ideas.
In an essay for The Conversation, post-doc Carrie Ann Johnson summarizes women's use of whisper networks to warn others of sexual harassment, abuse or assault in the workplace when formal reporting does not work.
Economics professor John Winters and graduate student Kunwon Ahn found additional education benefits self-employed individuals, especially women, in high and low-to-medium growth industries. Overall, education boosts entrepreneurship in the U.S.
Professor of natural resource ecology and management Lisa Schulte Moore has established two funds in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences that support transdisciplinary research. She used money from her 2021 MacArthur Fellowship, crediting Iowa State's collaborative environment in part for her selection for the so-called genius award.
Climate simulations using a global climate model indicate an increase in the number and intensity of hurricanes in the continental North Atlantic. Assistant professor of geological and atmospheric sciences Christina Patricola was part of the team whose findings recently were published.