July 18, 2024

The following announcements were added in the last two weeks:

• Operations/finance candidate visits conclude next week
• Ames Bookmobile stops at new campus location
• You're invited: CYstarters' Demo Day is July 30
• Christian Petersen, Farm House museums close July 29 for a month
• Community garage sale runs July 27-Aug. 3 at intermodal facility
• P&S Council leaders to discuss goals for year
• Feature film about Uganda initiatives illustrate center's purpose
• Sign up now for fall Master Gardener training in your home county
• Football single-game, 3-game pack on sale now
• Provost funds available for national faculty success program
• Renovations close Sloss House for several months; services remain

Total external funding increases to record $544.6 million

Iowa State researchers attracted $346.2 million in external funding for the fiscal year that ended June 30. It's the third straight year of record research funding.

Students transform faculty/staff space with mural

Design students and alumni spent part of their summer designing and painting a mural in a lunchroom in Ross Hall. Students learned how to design a mural, plan for materials and execute the vision as a team. 

Vet Med study sheds light on influenza spread in dairy cows

ISU researchers discovered why dairy cows infected by highly pathogenic avian influenza are shedding the virus in their milk. Their findings could help develop biosecurity measures aimed at slowing the spread of the illness.

Iowa Stater summer edition

The magazine's summer edition is hot off the press and available online. It includes these stories:

• Alumna Jenn Riggs' business builds women's skills and confidence to go for their next outdoor adventure.
• Are two Iowa brothers farmers who game? Or gamers who farm?
• ISU-led consortium is testing technologies that take on pervasive forever chemicals. 
• From apples to zucchini, Extension's "Growing Together Iowa" supplies produce to Iowa food pantries.
• It's time to celebrate the campanile, which turns 125 this year.

• Pavan Aduri, professor of computer science, to interim department chair, effective July 1
• Larissa Begley, teaching professor in history, to interim director of African and African American studies, for three years, effective July 1
• Sebastia Braun, professor in world languages and cultures, to a second three-year term as director of American Indian studies, effective July 1
• Gustavo Macintosh, LAS Dean's Professor and professor in biochemistry, biophysics and molecular biology, to interim associate dean for graduate studies and faculty development, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, for one year, effective July 1
• Stacy Tye-Williams, associate professor of communication studies, to director of the interdisciplinary communication studies program, for three years, effective July 1
• Teri Kruse, senior manager of payroll, to (inaugural) tax director, office of budget, financial strategy and treasury, effective July 8
• Tandalayo Kidd, Kansas State University, to associate dean and director for Human Sciences Extension and Outreach, effective Sept. 16

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Inside Update is published every other Thursday morning during summer session by Strategic Relations and Communications. Questions may be directed to 515-294-7065.