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Community will celebrate an estimated 4,770 graduates this weekend
Iowa State's spring class of 2025 includes an estimated 3,955 undergraduate students, 528 students earning a master's degree, 138 students earning a Ph.D. and 149 Doctor of Veterinary Medicine candidates.
Capturing commencement memories to last a lifetime
Information technology's audiovisual live events team will provide livestreaming and recordings for the three undergraduate ceremonies, Graduate and Veterinary Medicine college commencements, five college convocations and an engineering department celebration this week.
Kristen Constant reappointed as CIO
Constant, who has served in the role since 2017 (including an interim role for 2.5 years), has been appointed to a second five-year term as vice president for information technology services and chief information officer.
Rejuvenated child care facilities delight ISU families
About $1.1 million in several 2022-31 strategic plan awards, combined with $442,000 in other university funds, covered improvements to two campus child care locations that included building security upgrades, new heating/cooling systems, playground and classroom improvements and lighting replacements.
Provost summarizes faculty advancement data
Also on the final Faculty Senate agenda of the academic year: Approval of the sixth Degree of the Future, an interdisciplinary program in digital storytelling; new section in the Faculty Handbook to reflect current practices on faculty salary policies and procedures; and seating elected senators and officers.
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The following announcements were added this week:
- Process renewals for student employees extending for summer or fall
- Renew extended loan materials from library
- New website launches for 2022-31 strategic plan
- Second cohort for term faculty learning community completes its work
- Interdisciplinary research teams recognized with university award
- Summer session at the exercise clinic starts May 19
- Hyland Avenue section will close Monday for city project
- Registration is open for summer rec intramurals for faculty, staff
- Tips for keeping food safe at graduation parties
- May innovation lunch club features bioscience platform leaders
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Impressive graduates
Read (and watch) about three graduating Cyclones who made the most of their Iowa State years:
Maddens endow museums leadership post
Former university leaders Warren and Beverly Madden have provided a gift commitment to endow the University Museums director and chief curator position, held by Lynette Pohlman since 1980. At a May 9 medallion ceremony, Pohlman formally was installed as the inaugural holder.
Landscape architecture student works chosen for rural site
Two large sculptures by fifth-year College of Design students were selected for permanent installation at Art Farm Iowa near Northwood. The Crib, a galvanized steel corn crib representing the delicate balance between agriculture and the natural environment, and Cornnectivity, a seven-foot, 3D-printed sculpture meant to challenge the harmony between nature and technology, will be unveiled this weekend.
Improving online learning with intermittent quiz questions
In an essay for The Conversation, psychology professor Jason Chan found inserting brief quiz questions into an online lecture can boost learning by holding students' attention and may reduce racial achievement gaps, even when students tune in from distracting environments.
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Dr. Locke Karriker, Morrill Professor of veterinary diagnostic and production animal medicine and Dr. Douglas and Ann Gustafson Professor for Teaching Excellence in Veterinary Medicine, to department chair and executive director of the Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, effective May 12
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Stephen Gilbert, professor of industrial and manufacturing systems engineering and associate director of the VRAC Research Center, to faculty director of the University Honors Program for a three-year term
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Matt Frank, professor, associate chair and director of undergraduate education for the department of industrial and manufacturing systems engineering, to the C.G. "Turk" and Joyce A. Therkildsen Department Chair, effective July 1
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Employees, their colleagues or supervisors are invited to submit retirements and departures to inside@iastate.edu. Inside doesn't receive this information from a central source.
This week
- Retirement, Susan Gent, communications, university library, May 15 (no public event)
- Retirement, Warren Phillips, psychology, May 15 (no public event)
- Retirement, Yeon-Kyun Shin, biochemistry, biophysics and molecular biology, May 16 (no public event)
Next week
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Retirement, Maria Pringle, Thielen Student Health Center, May 19 (11 a.m.-1 p.m., Patterson Library, Thielen Student Health Center)
- Ice cream social, hosted by the P&S Council for all P&S employees, May 20 (11 a.m.-1 p.m., Marston Hall west lawn)
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Retirement, Patty Novak, Academic Success Center, May 22 (3-4 p.m., remarks at 3:15 p.m., MU Campanile Room)
Upcoming
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Retirement, Rod Fischer, course design and quality, Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, May 30 (no public event), post well wishes to Rod's Kudoboard
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Retirement, Brenda Kutz, agronomy, May 30 (3-4:30 p.m., program at 3:30 p.m., Commons, second floor of Agronomy Hall), post well wishes to Brenda's Kudoboard
- Retirement, Lois Benning, career services, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, June 2, (no public event)
- Retirement, Alan Kuuttila, agricultural and biosystems engineering, June 2 (no public event)
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Retirement, James Roth, Center for Food Security and Public Health, veterinary microbiology and preventive medicine, June 20 (3:30-5 p.m., Commons, Patterson Hall)
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Graphic design show transitions students to the real world
A May 15 evening show in downtown Des Moines will feature the final projects of 82 graduating graphic design seniors -- for example, a shuttered Santa Fe school reimagined as a boutique hotel, branding for a fictional Iowa NBA team or workspace redesigns that prioritize employee well-being and integrate advanced technology. The free event is at the Community Choice Credit Union, Hall A (6-8 p.m., remarks at 6:30 p.m.).
New Deal murals are focus of Sunday tour
Learn about some of the earliest works in Iowa State's Art on Campus collection at a tour of the Grant Wood murals in Parks Library on Sunday, May 18 (2-3 p.m., meet at the murals, first floor). The murals began as a federal Works Progress Administration project during the Great Depression.
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Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT) programming
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