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Following is a searchable index for the year.
Workshop instills high
expectations (minority students)
Hopson announces plans to retire
from alumni association (Jim Hopson)
Solar car student exchange begins
today (Team PrISUm)
Is your fax machine ready for Y2K?
Date set for '99 science fair
(Iowa State Science and Technology Fair)
Scientific matchmaking results
in discovery (Pat Murphy, food toxicologist; isoflavones)
Fast Facts: Top ISU areas of
undergrad study, fall 1998
Faculty Senate returns to
post-tenure review
P&S Council: Council gears up for P&S
employee survey
Winter travellers' guide for Iowa
State
New assistant dean of
students arrives next week (Vernon A. Wall)
LGBT student services coordinator
looks to build on program's recent success (Stacie Kagan)
Gov. Branstad to address
undergraduates (fall commencement)
Honors
- Engineering faculty awards (Christopher Schilling, Ken Kruempel, Judy
Vance, Douglas Jacobson, Patrick Patterson)
- Elected fellow (David Jiles)
- Staff support award (Arleen Faeth)
- National ag awards (Greg Miller, Curtis Youngs, Ron Deiter)
Announcements
- Comfort Zone partners with Student Health Center (day care)
- Quilt tickets available (Margaret Sloss Women's Center)
- Honors seminar proposals sought (University Honors Program Committee)
- 25-Year Club seeks inductees
- Candidates to interview for EHS director (Environmental Health and
Safety)
- Nominations for provost sought
- Madrigal dinner tickets on sale now
- Interviews scheduled for child care coordinator finalists
- Special series on WOI-FM Radio next week (Rachel Jeffrey's; Beethoven)
- Alumni association names marketing director (Diane Van Wyngarden)
Receptions
- Hsuang-Cheng Hsieh, Curran Swift, Al Talkington (electrical and
computer engineering)
- Emery Sobottka (environmental health and safety)
- Donal Bjelland (facilities planning and management)
Carver Capsule (George Washington
Carver)
Deaths
- Lauren Christian (animal science)
- Joan Rottler (philosophy and religious studies)
Brunnier closes Dec. 14 for wall
repairs (Brunnier Art Museum)
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Seagrave is interim provost;
search committee named (Richard Seagrave)
Tree lighting set for Dec. 2
LAS dean candidate visits begin this
month (Lynne Billard, John Dobson, Peter Rabideau, Leon Radziemski, Joseph
Templeton)
Date set for alcohol-free Veishea
1999
Daily study committee convenes
next month (Iowa State Daily)
Jischke urges senators to develop
policy for post-tenure review (Faculty Senate)
Low profile, high yields (Ed Lewis)
Apartment site work begins at
Hawthorn Court (Residence department's master plan)
Y2K and your computer
Carver Capsule (George Washington
Carver)
ISU Theatre to produce student's
plays (Jason Taylor)
P&S Council: Council ponders online
handbook
Announcements
- Honors poster presentations
- Holiday sale at museum store (Brunnier Museum Store)
- Info session on learning communities Dec. 2 (ISU Learning Community
Advisory Committee)
- Holidays at the Farm House
- Babcock is new CARD director (Bruce Babcok)
- Workshop on enhancing minority student success Dec. 8
- Holiday preparations at the Reiman Gardens
Book highlights 60 years of study
(Duane Isely)
Retirements
- Edwin Lewis, provost's office and psychology
- Linda Galyon and Janet Anderson-Hsieh, English
- Herman Richtmeier, registrar's office
- Diane McComber, food science and human nutrition
- Rose Turner, art and design
- Alfred Joensen, mechanical engineering
Awards
- Research award: William Lord, engineering
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Elizabeth Dole to hold Smith chair
this spring (Mary Louise Smith Chair in Women and Politics)
Institute on World Affairs: Why
should America care?
Animal science will open Kildee
addition Saturday
Jischke to discuss P&T document at
next senate meeting (Faculty Senate)
Discovering the "world" parasites
(Jeffrey Beethan, global parasitology)
Employee teams will suggest changes to
P&S system (professional and scientific staff)
Study abroad becoming essential
college experience (What students say about their travel experiences)
Next Faculty Forum looks at using
humor in teaching (Ron Deiter, economics)
Announcements
- Breakfast with the President (President Martin Jischke)
- Comments sought on proposed journal cancellations (Parks Library)
- Fact books are in (It's a fact)
- Borich named to Design assistant dean post (Tim Borich, assistant dean
for research and outreach)
- WOI reaches new fund-raising high
- Phi Kappa Phi induction (national honor society)
- Schmidt talks politics (Steffen Schmidt, political scientist)
- Winter softball and baseball camps
- Hunt on for Christian Petersen sculptures (University Museums)
- Construction begins at Communication Building
- Tuition grant deadlines (merit and P&S employees)
- Share Thanksgiving with international students (Office of International
Students and Scholars)
- DOE offers lab equipment (Energy-Related Equipment program)
- Pet photos with Santa (Veterinary Teaching Hospital)
Retirement
Death
Honors
- ACE award winners (1998 Agricultural Communicators in Education)
- ISU faculty receive regents awards (Regents Faculty Excellence Awards)
- Composing award (Jeffrey Prater)
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ISU is founding member of ag
education consortium (International Cosortium for Agricultural Education)
Faculty, staff receive Ukrainian
awards
College of Business receives $10
million gift (Russell and Ann Gerdin)
Nominations sought for provost
search committee (Provost John Kozak)
Carver visiting scholar
arrives Oct.28 (Reginald Wilson)
World Food Prize goes to Indian
entrepreneur (B.R. Barwale, )
Meeting the people of the land,
Green Bay to Albuquerque (Jerry DeWitt, entomology)
Christians named inventor of the
year (Nick Christians, horticulture)
New Kildee conference room named
for Ensminger (Marion Eugene Ensminger and Audrey Helen Ensminger
International Room)
Tye gift renovates music
recital hall (Martha-Ellen Tye Recital Hall)
Faculty Senate approves revised P&T
document (promotion and tenure policy)
ISU Theatre musical opens Nov. 6
(A Little Night Music)
Campus United Way drive is
halfway to goal
Textile artist reveals personal
journey in Brunnier retrospective (Robert Hillestad, Nebraska)
ABC replica opens Omaha stand
(Atanasoff-Berry Computer)
Announcements
- Flute ensemble concert (ISU Flute Ensemble)
- Save your old phonebooks for recycling (ISU Recycling Committee)
- Alumni award nominations due Dec. 1 (Alumni Association awards)
- Consolidate your student loans; save money (Federal Direct Consolidation
Loan program)
- Way Up conference
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Farm economy team will respond to
ag issues
12 teams receive grants to improve
student recruitment, retention (P&S Council proposals)
Forum to look at scholarship in
teaching (Faculty Forum)
Women's Week observance extended
through fall semester
Myers named to affirmative action
post (Evie Myers)
Odds on favorite (Hal Stern,
professor of statistics)
Wellness: it's more than health
clubs and melba toast (ISU Wellness Program; Lauri Dusselier, coordinator)
Carver Capsule (George Washington
Carver fact)
P&S Council: Council ready to
support university club proposal
MU Vending sends second gift to
scholarship fund (minority students)
Graduate/professional school day fair
is Oct. 21
Announcements
- Points of Pride online
- ISU advances highlighted in Science Coalition Report (Ames Lab
researchers)
- Jischke on Talk of Iowa (WOI-AM)
- Garden talks switch to monthly schedule (Reiman Gardens)
- Free flu shots (Occupational Medicine)
- Gruenewald named to learning communities post (Doug Gruenewald,
residence department)
- Road Scholars bus departs Oct. 16
- Softball camps this winter
- Reserve a ride to World Food Prize ceremony
- Jischke's Kiev, Paris speeches online
- "Organists of Iowa" series continues (Karen Larson Black)
- ISU Women's Club meets Oct. 26 (Bill Fennelly, speaker)
- A Beyond 12+ Journey (Training and Development)
Design college awarded role in national HUD
program (Community Outreach Partnership Program grant)
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ISU Foundation extends campaign to
$425 million
Enrollment up 201 from a year
ago
Retirement/wellness fair targets
young and old
Virus-clearing disk is in the mail
(Computation Center, "Win32/CIH" virus)
Keeping the focus on the client
(Walt Gmelch, College of Education Dean)
NPR hosts will help launch WOI-FM's
50th anniversary
Iowa Shares seeks to raise $30,000
at ISU (workplace giving campaign)
Homecoming: It's not just for
alumni
Egyptian painter is Carver artist
in residence (Youssef Asar)
Where we live (faculty and staff)
Reception opens Quilters
production (ACTORS', Farm House fall exhibit)
Schmidt to reflect on Clinton
scandal (Steffen Schmidt, political science professor)
Announcements
- Big recyclers (white paper recycling)
- Online phone directory now includes departments
- Program director named (Penny Rosenthal,adult learner and
commuter student programs)
- Overture dinner (Iowa State Center and AIOFA sponsored)
- Baseball camps and hitting leagues this winter
- Orazem named to interim post (Peter Orazem, interim associate dean of
the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)
- Free concert by The Bone People (University Museum)
- Airlines cracking down on certain ticket-buying practices
- Space grant conference (Iowa Space Grant)
- "P.D.Q.Bach" to give campus lecture (Peter Schickele)
- Scholarship deadline (Iowa State University Women's Club)
- Good deeds by the Scouts (National Order of the Arrow Conference)
- Family crafts events at the Brunnier (George Washington Carver
celebration)
- Music artist in residence (Reggie Thomas)
- ISU Women's Club hosts fall opener
- South African students wrap up exchange visit (University of Pretoria)
Death
- Joe Christensen, music and ISU bands director
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Learning communities to receive
$1.5 million (President Martin Jischke, convocation address)
"Home"coming with a twist
(Habitat for Humanity home building)
Alumnus returns as Carver
visiting scholar (Michael Nettles)
Pioneer Hi-Bred endows fourth chair
(Chair in Science and Technology Policy)
Benefits office begins study
(temporary restructuring)
What I did on my summer vacation
(faculty-staff perspective)
Cousteau lecture set for Sept. 23
(Jean-Michel Cousteau, "Designing our Future")
Worm salsa: it's perfect for
dipping (Insect Horror Film Festival)
"Rolling repertory" opens ISU
Theatre season this month
Campus goal is $168,000 (United
Way '98 campaign)
Computer virus threatens Windows 95,
98 and NT users (Win32/CIH virus)
Announcements
- Opens house at ASB and Library Storage Sept. 25
- Conference explores distance education (ISU Extension)
- Academic advising workshop (University Academic Advising Committee)
- Remembering Dahlia Frey Stockdale
- Pet hotline seeks volunteers (ISU Pet Loss Support Hotline)
- WOI Radio's TGIF (Iowa Week)
- Design to break ground on addition
- Conversation partners sought (Conversational English Program)
- FCS Career Day
- History-loving tour guides needed (University Museums)
- Discounted CyRide passes available
- Faculty forums resume next week
- Carver photographs put into focus (P.H. Polk photographs, Amalia Amaki)
- CATD seeks research proposals
Receptions
- Janie Barnett, student financial aid
- Jauvanta Walker, statistics department
Reactor decommissioning begins
(10-kW nuclear teaching reactor)
P&S Council returns to university
club proposal
Council writes its own principles
list
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More projects begin this fall at
Reiman Gardens (children's garden)
Input sought on food service merger
proposal (residence system and Memorial Union)
Fall convocation is Sept. 3
Vrchota outlines senate's slate
(Faculty Senate, Denise Vrchota)
CARD turns 40 this year (Center for
Agricultural and Rural Development)
Intricate designs (Carol Meeks, FCS
dean)
Summer '98 in review: what you missed
if you left town (Floyd/Eustachy, Foundation, Partnership Press, John Dobson,
answer center)
Familiar faces help women's center
launch new effort ("Sensitive Men Flippin' Burgers", men's outreach effort)
Postal rate increases on the way
Memorial Union wired to host satellite
events (Network Event Theater - NET)
Farm House restoration postponed
until spring
Announcements
- Jischke on Talk of Iowa (WOI-AM Radio)
- Plant sale and ice cream at Reiman Gardens
- University Museums seeks new members
- Construction begins on next solar car (PrISUm Phoenix)
- Seed grants (Iowa Space Grant Consortium)
- Faculty mentors sought (Freshman Honors Program)
- Museum store sale (Brunnier Art Museum Store)
- Grant applications sought (Culture Corps grants program)
Honors
Reviewer of the Year (Howard Van Auken, management)
Technical literature award (Ted Okiishi, engineering)
Institute fellow (Pius Egbelu, industrial/manufacturing systems
engineering)
Distinguished achievement (Jerry Young, animal science)
NEH fellowship (Marie Lathers, French)
Blue ribbons (MidWest Plan Service: Nita Upchurch, Chad Sanborn, Molly
Halstead, Carol Huffman, Jack Moore)
Receptions
- William "Bill" Yungclas (admissions)
- Dennis Starleaf (economics)
- Donald Goering (4-H youth development specialist)
- Rosemary Palmer Foggia (Telecommunications)
Cousteau, Steinem headline '98-99
lecture series (ISU Lectures Program)
Second ISU hall of fame class to be
inducted Sept. 4 (ISU Athletic Hall of Fame)
College of Design 1998 Faculty
Exhibition Lecture series (in conjunction with the college's 20th
anniversary)
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Student answer center piloted in
Beardshear
Eustachy lands in Hilton (Larry
Eustachy, head basketball coach)
Summer commencement is
tomorrow
ISU state fair exhibits will showcase
Carver legacy
Her goal: Happy campers (Marsha
Wissink, athletic camp coordinator)
Museum exhibits draw on ISU faculty
expertise (State Historical Society of Iowa)
Design faculty exhibition opens Aug.
24
Deadline set for P&S grants
(professional and scientific employees' grant proposals for student
recruitment/retention projects)
Exhibit chronicles Carver's time at
Tuskegee (George Washington Carver)
Performances kick off new
school year (Cedar Rapids Symphony concert, Bill Cosby show, George
Washington Carver Art series)
Spanish classes offered this fall
for faculty, staff (department of foreign languages and literatures)
12-month pay plan now an option for ISU
students
Receptions
- Ronald Cantrell (agronomy)
- Dianne Borgen (Ames Laboratory)
- Frank Maly (Administrative Data Processing Center)
- Keith Redenbaugh (Office of Biotechnology)
Announcements
- Online tour of campus trees, shrubs
- Diplomats for (free) hire (ISU Diplomats)
- Stephens dinner ("Season at Stephens" 30th anniversary)
- Career conference for girls ("Taking the Road Less Traveled">
- Name that Web site (Extended and Continuing Education)
- New chair in HHP (Jerry Thomas, department of health and human
performance)
- ISU map on the Web
- Zachary named to assistant dean post (Loren Zachary, College of
Engineering)
Death
College convocations'98
Honors
- National award (Rachel Jeffreys, WOI Radio)
- Named to award board (James Melsa, engineering)
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ISU Foundation repeats $100
million fund-raising year
Ames Lab/ISU team claims 19th R&D 100
award
School year to begin again with a
concert (Cedar Rapids Symphony)
Campus responds to proliferation of
span (How to jam a spammer)
Johnson elected to Hungarian
academy (Stan Johnson, Hugarian Academy of Sciences)
He's after a prevention instead of
the cure (F. Chris Minion, veterinary microbiologist)
Scouts arrive on campus Aug.
2 (National Order of the Arrow Conference)
Custer named marketing director
(Carole Custer, director for university marketing)
Expertise extends to the exotic
(College of Veterinary Medicine, TB testing in elephants)
Landscape architecture professor
designs English maze for Winterset (Robert Harvey)
P&S tuition grants to remain at 100
percent of a course
Receptions
- Terri Houston, assistant dean of students
- William Wunder, animal science
- Lyle Miller, professor of veterinary pathology
Announcements
- Jischke on Talk of Iowa (WOI-AM Radio)
- Kirkland named to ISURF post (Kenneth Kirkland, director)
- ASB open for business (Administrative Services Building)
- Smith to head business departments (David B. Smith)
- Breakfast with Jischke (Conversation with President Martin Jischke)
- Summer lecture series announced (ISU's Nutritional Sciences Council)
- FCS names new associate deans (Suzanne Hendrich, Mary Winter)
- Deadline for merit staff grants (tuition grant applications)
- Farm House restoration tour (basement)
Mission: (It's) possible (R&D
Engineering Services Group)
Honors
- Workplace safety award (accident prevention)
- Service award (Dom Caristi, journalism and mass communication)
- NSF grant (Murti Salapaka, electrical and computer engineering)
- Teaching award (Randall Huff, English)
- Ag honor society award (Harold "Sande" McNabb, plant pathology and
forestry; Alfred Blackmer, agronomy; Jerry Sell, animal science; Victor
Bekkum, agricultural and biosystems engineering; Mark Hanna, agricultural
and biosystems engineering and extension agricultural engineer)
- Contest awards (Instructional Technology Center, College of Education,
chemistry department, art and design department, and College of Family and
Consumer Sciences
- National award (Instructional Technology Center)
- National veterinary awards (Dr. Patrick Halbur, veterinary pathology;
Dr. Michael Wannemuehler, immunology and preventive medicine)
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Carver year schedule taking shape
("Inspiring students to become their best: The legacy of George Washington
Carver")
Regents OK continued work on
residence plan (three-plus year plan for university-sponsored housing)
P&S Council: Efforts this year for better
communication paid off
Letter (Carla Espinoza)
Building champions (Dan O'Mara)
ISU, Tribune publishers
settle suit (Partnership Press settlement)
Speakers Bureau reaches almost
10,000 in first two years
John Dobson is interim LAS dean
Diversity outreach program boosts
job searches (Edna Clinton, 1998 Affirmative Action Award)
New faculty, TAs invited to
teaching seminar (College Teaching Seminar)
Honors
- WOI Radio staff
Iowa Broadcast News Association
Iowa Associated Press
Northwest Broadcast News Association
- Elected Fellow
- National Case awards
Collegiate Alumni Association, Julie Larson
Carole Gieseke and Karol Crosbie, Visions magazine
- FCS college awards
Doug Lewis, Helen LeBaron Hilton Teaching Award
Sara Kadolph, Career Teaching Award
Robert Serfass, Faculty Research Excellence Award
Wendy White, Outstanding Advisor Award
Karen Shirer, Orofessional and Scientific Staff Outstanding Service
Award
Lou Ann Doyle, Merit Staff Outstanding Service Award
- National leadership award
Ron Deiter, 1998 John Deere Award
- Outstanding book
Dianne Bystrom, The Lynching of Language: Gender, Politics and Power in
the Hill-Thomas Hearings
Receptions
- Jerry Carney, ADP Center
- Ellen Fairchild and Stephanie Chervinko, Office of Adult Learner &
Commuter Student Programs
- Bob Pink, Telecommunications
Announcements
- Business offices move (Administrative Services Building)
- Jischke on the radio (Talk of Iowa)
- Grants help faculty emphasize entrepreneurship (ISU Pappajohn Center for
Entrepreneurship)
- United Way volunteers sought
Additional parking makes south
campus more visitor friendly
Death
- Dahlia Stockdale, Human Development and Family Studies
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FY99 budget: Lawmakers earmark funds for
value-added ag, plant genetics
Campus imput sought for
proposed food services merger
Pay hikes for faculty and staff
expected to average 4 percent
Shapiro named to vice provost post
(Howard Shapiro, vice provost for undergraduate programs)
Letter to the editor (post-tenure
review)
A role for everyone at the women's
center (Pam Thomas, director)
Siegel to lead computation center
(Peter Siegel, director for academic information technology)
Former Faculty Senate president
reflects: Presidential review, groundwork for U club among the
highlights
New ice arena will require some private
funds
Computer program targets Des
Moines students ("Computer Connection")
Hoffmann takes post at SUNY-Albany
(Richard Hoffmann)
Announcements
- Garden trip to Minnesota (Reiman Gardens CoHorts)
- Chemistry Stores closed
- Karsjen to manage IPRT info office (Steve Karsjen)
- ADP associate director finalists visit campus (Diane Beckman, George
Bosela, Bruce Kendall, Dan Woodin)
- New chamber publication for potential employees (Ames Chamber of
Commerce; Community Profile Membership Directory)
- New campus phone exchange (572 telephone exchange)
- Mortvedt leaves bookstore (Todd Mortvedt)
- Iowa State Center installs toll-free line (1-877-the-center)
- Grant for conservation of Petersen sculptures (Stockman Family
Foundation)
Receptions
- Barb Houk (assistant to the athletic director)
- William Reece (professor of veterinary physiology and pharmacology)
- George Beran (distinguished professor of veterinary medicine)
- Zola Obe (systems analyst and former data entry manager, ADP)
Iowa Games adds sports, moves to
mid-July
ISU summer dance workshop starts June
23
Fountain rededication is Saturday
(Fountain of the Four Seasons)
Jewels of the Night to benefit the
fountain (University Museum; antique jewelry auction)
ABC replica has extended stay in
Des Moines
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Faculty reject post-tenure review
Course openings on the Web May 22
(online schedule of classes)
Madison named library dean (Olivia
Madison)
Faculty Senate: Newlin calls for
more use of ICN, help with accountability issues (university club, academic
changes)
Keeping tabs on the land (Dean
Thompson, Natural Resources Inventory and Analysis Institute)
Bousquet expects another large
freshmen class (fall enrollment, letter to ISU and Ames community)
Summer schedule for Inside Iowa
State
Volunteers thrive on Special
Olympics as much as athletes
Vision 2020: Spring workshop
focuses on change
LAS dean search will continue (College
of Liberal Arts and Sciences)
Third finalist named for ISURF post
(H. Walter Haeussler)
Alumni returning to perform in Our
Town
The right address saves time (mailing
information)
Approve further study: P&S Council
members air concerns about proposed university club (pay matrix, student
recruitment projects)
Parking increase goes to ramp fund
Announcements
- Lunch with the president
- Memorial Day ceremony
- Jischke, Parks on Talk of Iowa (John Parks, ISU Research Park)
- Application deadline for 12-month pay plan (tenured, tenure-track,
adjunct faculty)
- Gamon, Thrall, receive faculty fellowships (Julia Gamon, Charlotte
Thralls)
- Krause, gift benefits ISU business students (Krause Challenge)
Honors
- Achievement award (Liz Kurt)
- Research award (Greg Tylka)
- Catt Sex Equity Awards (Sharon Haselhoff, Sine' Anahita, Randall Huff,
Jane Vallier)
- Election to honor association (Joseph Christensen)
- Art educator of the year (Barbara Caldwell)
Reception
- Richard Zbaracki (Curriculum and Instruction)
Bald eagle euthanized
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Graduation slate announced
(spring commencement activities)
Finalists named for vice
provost post (undergraduate programs; Warren Dolphin, Jane Peterson, Howard
Shapiro)
Cosby shows to launch Carver year
(Bill Cosby; George Washington Carver celebration)
Extension gets involved in student
reading (VISTA, "America Reads Challenge")
Roth fills second Vet Med chair
(James Roth; John G. Salsbury Chair)
This year, the conference is
coming to you ("Power and Ethics in Leadership" conference)
Barton named IPRT director (Tom
Barton)
Carter to lead Pappajohn Center
(Steve Carter)
It's high-gear season in the
gardens (Nick Howell, Superintendent of the Reiman Gardens)
Big grant funds tiny items (W.M. Keck
Foundation; Laboratory for the Fabrication of Micro-miniaturized Analytical
Instrumentation)
Tale tellers to gather May 2
(International Storytelling Festival)
Faculty promotion, tenure awards
announced
Farm House exhibit honors women
of Iowa State ("Signature Objects from the Women of Iowa State")
Simulation looks at the realities
of poverty (ISU Extension welfare simulation)
ISU to host virtual reality
conference (ICEMT)
Announcements
- Correction (van-driving course)
- P&T vote ends today (promotion and tenure vote; Faculty Senate)
- Talk of Iowa (President Martin Jischke)
- Tuition grants (summer semester; Merit and P&S employees)
- LGBT graduates will be honored May 7 (First Annual Lavendar Graduation)
- Business professorship (Union Pacific Professorship for Information
Systems in the College of Business)
- Miller Faculty Fellowships (13 projects selected)
- ISU among Yahoo's most wired ("America's 100 Most Wired Colleges"
by Web magazine Yahoo! Internet Life)
Receptions
- Pat Richtsmeier (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)
- William R. "Bill" Yungclas (Admissions)
Solar promotion tour starts May 11
(Team PrISUm, Sunrun)
The big chill; Ice-bound ship may
hold secret to global warming (Jim Liljegren)
Coach Nunez takes administrative
position (Jackie Nunez, women's volleyball coach)
ISURF finalists visit campus (Kenneth
Kirkland, Lawrence Kennedy)
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Practice facility will honor
former football coach (Johnny Majors Practice Fields)
Diversity roundtable: A welcoming
campus requires personal responsibility
Daughters day at work is April 23
(University Committee on Women)
Good advising= win-win equation
(John Schuh, professor of educational leadership)
Design students lend ideas to new
Carlisle home (McCaughey septuplets)
Faculty Senate: Faculty seek
approval of teaching appointments
Carillon festival opens next week
(Albert Gerkin, guest carillonneur)
Computation director candidates
visiting this month (Stephen Elbert, Peter Siegel, Thomas Moberg, Samuel
Trickey)
P&S Council: Procedure provides
timeline for spring reclassification requests
Announcements
- Correction (admission charge for intrasquad football scrimmage)
- Central Stores closed for a week
- May Basket workshop (Reiman Garden CoHorts)
- Bioethics Institute deadline extended
- New positions in Engineering (Anne Ahrens, international programs
director; Monica Bruning, coordinator of recruitment and outreach to middle
and high school students)
- Miller fills associate dean post (Gerald Miller, associate dean for
extension and industry)
- Course in van driving offered (Transportation Services)
- Town and Gown piano recital (Brian Ganz, pianist)
- National champs (Meat Animal Evaluation Team)
- Research funding available (Center for Advanced Technology Development)
- Greimann reappointed chair (Lowell Griemann, civil and construction
engineering)
- Leadership conference for faculty, staff is May 27 (Power and Ethics
Leadership Conference)
Office of Civil Rights to review ISU
(U.S. Department of Education OCR)
Web expert to lead workshop (Michael
Handberg, University of Minnesota)
Receptions
- Camilla Benbow, Dan Reschly
- Don Wall
- Carmen Kenyon
- Mort Boyd
- Jeanette Bohnenkamp
- Roger Bruene
- Phyllis Brackelsberg, Paul Brackelsberg
Kramer says "so long" to
Seinfeld
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Diversity roundtable: What a
multicultural center could be
Faculty conference: Excellence is a
collective effort
Fifth Carver scholar visits this
month (Walter Massey)
Blake to speak as part of national
event (J. Herman Blake, "Campus Week of Dialogue")
Road Scholars tour departs Friday
(President Martin Jischke, tour of north central Iowa)
In search of a big diamond
(Steve Kawaler, physics and astronomy, white dwarf star)
Report shares ideas for improving
student experiences ("Commitment to Undergraduate Education", Ed Lewis)
Some old, some new at Veishea '98
Vote on P&T policy moves to faculty
(Faculty Senate, proposed promotion and tenure policy)
Teaching center offers
fellowships (Center for Teaching Excellence, Teaching Faculty Fellowships)
Intern positions open in
President's Office (administrative interns for 1998-99)
Deadlines set for Big 12 fellowships
Announcements
- MSA's recognition awards banquet is April 26 (Minority Student Affairs)
- Veishea co-chairs join Jischke on WOI-Radio April 8 (Kathryn Whitaker
and Ben Dohrmann, Talk of Iowa)
- Faculty forum is April 13 (Bill Boon, "Helping Students Think Outside
the Box")
- Nominees sought for Committee on Women
- Careers conference for girls ("Exploring Opportunities for Our Future")
- Pappajohn Center offers course development grants
- World Health Day is April 7
- Distance ed project update
4-H center offers youth camps, workshops
for faculty, staff
Receptions
- Pete Hetland
- Dori Kuehl
- William Bathie
- Marilyn Thomas
- Colleen Pfrimmer
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Greenlee gift wil give
"school" status to journalism program (Robert and Diane Greenlee School of
Journalism and Communication)
ISU community members share
thoughts on campus diversity (Roundtable discussion)
Convocation scheduled a month
earlier (Spring convocation)
Loan fund set up for Asian students
(Asian currency devaluation)
One for the students (Harold "Sande"
McNabb, Iowa State Science and Technology Fair)
Campus visits scheduled for library
dean finalists (Olivia Madison, Keith Russell, John Ulmschneider, Thomas
Wilding)
Anita Hill to visit campus April 6
(Strong-Minded Women event)
Library mural dedication is Sunday
(Parks Library mural)
27th American Indian Symposium is
next month (Tobasonakwut Kinew, Richard Lundy, keynote lectures)
Spring visit scheduled for Smith
chair holder (Ruth Mandel, Mary Louise Smith Chair in Women and Politics)
Register by March 25 for annual P&S
luncheon (Professional and Scientific Council, "Working Together Toward
Solutions")
Senate narrowly votes to keep P&T
vote on track (Faculty Senate, promotion and tenure document)
Announcements
- President's lunch (open lunch forum)
- Credit union board members (ISU Credit Union election)
- Alumni calendar deadline (ISU Alumni Association)
- 'HOT' conference at ISU (Hispanics of Today conference)
- MANRRS national conference (Minorities in Agriculture, Natural
Resources and Related Sciences conference, George Washington Carver Day)
Vice provost post to be filled
from faculty ranks (vice provost for undergraduate programs)
Budget keepers: Plan for postal rate
increases (U.S. Postal Service rate increases)
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New education dean arrives July 1
(Walter Gmelch, College of Education)
Is irradiated meat ready for prime
time? (Linear Accelerator Facility)
Registration opens next week
(Provost's Workshop on China)
Journalism gift announcement is
Wednesday (Robert and Diane Greenlee, school of journalism and communication)
Ripley on the run (Nan Ripley,
Scalable Computing Laboratory program)
Faculty gift endows chair in
accounting (Roger P. Murphy Endowed Teaching Professorship in Accounting,
College of Business)
Nobel Prize recipient to give campus
address March 12 (Henry Kendall, "Global Environmental Problems: The Next 50
Years")
Gift spurs building expansion plans
(John Rogers, College of Design)
Organizers gear up for science fair
(Iowa State Science and Technology Fair)
FBI, Ames Lab looking for research
collaborations (forensic science)
Outreach center at Armstrong farm is
open (Wallace Foundation Learning and Outreach Center, Lewis)
Announcements
- Conference Services seeks summer camp info
- Child care center offers spring break, summer programs
- Catt associate nominations due March 13
- Distance Education open house (Digital Distance Education Resource
Center)
- Garden volunteers sought (Reiman Garden CoHorts)
- OM Regionals at ISU March 14 (Odyssey of the Mind)
- Faculty intern sought (Council on International Programs)
- Physical therapy center open to faculty, staff (Sportsmedicine and
Physical Therapy Center)
Reception
- Mary Ann Sandvold, secretary to the associate vice provost for extension
Curing students' credit blues
(Tahira Hira)
Honors
- Symposium presenter (Carole Custer)
- Best paper (Mary Ann Tetreault)
- Editorial board appointment (John Eighmey)
- Printing awards (ISU Printing Services)
- Elected fellow (Mark Engelbrecht)
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ISU helps Asian students with
currency woes (Office of International Students and Scholars)
LAS dean finalists visit ISU (Sandra
Greer, Howard Grotch, Frederick Rudolph, Herman Saatkamp)
Top speakers headline May
leadership seminar ("Power and Ethics in Leadership"; Edwin Nichols, J.
Scott Raecker, Mary Fisher, Patricia Morgan)
Veishea '98: A weekend for ISU
family ("A Time for Change")
Senators OK separate vote on peer
review (Faculty Senate)
It takes more than air freshener in
confinements (Steve Hoff, agricultural engineer)
Tanaka answers legal questions during
Faculty Forum
Breaking boundaries in Barjche '98
(faculty and student dance performance)
Bakker leads tech center (Willem
Bakker, appointed director of the Iowa Manufacturing Technology Center)
Music department concerts set
- Clarinet choir is Feb. 24 (ISU Clarinet Choir)
- Baroque music (Basically Baroque)
- Piano quartet plans March 1 concert (Ames Piano Quartet)
EAP can help
with personal, emotional problems (Employee Assistance Program)
First Supple lecture is this month
(Monsignor James Supple Chair of Catholic Studies; Jaime Vidal, speaker)
Retirements
- Charles Mulford (sociology professor)
- Laurence Burkhalter (Ames Piano Quartet)
Announcements
- Cruz-Neira will be profiled on IPTV (assistant professor of electical
and computer engineering and virtual reality expert)
- 25-Year Club list is online (Retirement Office, Human Resource Services)
- Brooke joins Jischke on Talk (Corly Peterson Brooke)
- ISU exhibitors sought for science fair (Iowa State Science and
Technology Fair)
- Big 12 basketball rallies (ISU Alumni Association)
- Volunteers needed (Iowa Summer Olympics)
- Defining wellness (presentation by Kaye Halvorson, Principal Financial)
- An invitation to tell a story (International Resource Center,
Storytelling Festival)
- Fact Book is online (Office of Institutional Research)
ISU, Fudan sign pact (Fujia Yang,
president, China's Fudan University)
ABC to Legislature (Atanasoff-Berry
Computer)
Art event explores the meaning of
'environment'
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Is ISU an 'Education I' university?
(Sixth annual faculty conference)
Hixson scholarship fund grows to $12
million (Hixson Opportunity Awards Program)
How to be part of the alcohol
solution (Alan Berkowitz, alcohol prevention program)
Safe Zone project is making strides
(LGBT, Dean of Students sticker project)
Driven by a moral vision (Herman
Blake and Emily Moore)
Spring enrollment is up
Inmates aspire to be Master
Gardeners (ISU Extension, "Master Gardeners Behind Bars")
ISU Theatre's spring season opens
this month (Pentecost)
Banquet is the ultimate 'invention
convention' (ISU Inventors and R&D Award Winners)
Hilton sports new scoreboard
Announcements
- Correction (CASE contest winner Michael Marti, Ames Laboratory)
- Valentine Symphony (ISU symphony concert)
- Iowa Games bowling begins (qualifying competion)
- Interracial communication workshops (Student Counseling Service)
- Cyclone Honor Choir (180 musicians from 40 Iowa high schools)
- Memorial Union survey (feedback regarding MU remodeling)
- Benefit concert (Iowa State Singers fund raiser)
Memorial service (Michael Warren)
Honors
- Named fellow (Warren DeVries)
- Journal co-editor (Hector Avalos)
- Elected fellow (L.K. Doraiswamy)
- Winning report (Nancy Maushak, Kristen Wright, Michael Simonson)
- Student advising award (Greg Luecke)
- Elected fellow (David Jiles)
- Board member (Todd Zdorkowski)
The big chill; Magnetic refrigeration makes a cool
debut (Ames Laboratory)
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Carver honored on postage stamp
(George Washington Carver)
Perception is part of the alcohol
problem (Alan Berkowitz)
Espinoza heads Affirmative Action
(Carla Espinoza)
So long paper chase: Form 111 goes
electronic (Pat Strah, budget analyst)
The pros look at politics and
humor in America (Institute on National Affairs)
Tribute to female composers Sunday
("Unsung Heroines")
Hira named to interim extension post
(Tahira Hira)
Plastics projects aplenty (Joshua
Otaigbe)
Greek affairs coordinator named
(Brian Tenclinger)
Reps discuss comp time (P&S Council)
Black History observance opens in
February
Ulrichson is senate's next
president-elect (Dean Ulrichson, Faculty Senate)
College info hotline day is Feb. 1
This archive has a shot for you (ISU
Photo Service)
Announcements
- Celebrating small victories (LGBTSS)
- Alumni award nominations due
- Lunch with President Jischke
- Freedom Fund Banquet (NAACP, Herman Blake)
- Credit union meeting is March 7 (ISU Credit Union)
- Music faculty concert (Elizabeth Sadilek)
- Jischke on the radio (Talk of Iowa)
- Eddys named volunteers of the year (Barbara and O. Robert Eddy)
- Anti-racist education workshops (Karen Donaldson and Carlie Tartakov)
Annual health carnival is Jan. 29
Museum store has new manager
(Molly Simpson, Brunnier Art Museum)
Reception
- William Linstrom, associate vice provost for extension
Iowa State wins CASE sweepstakes
(alumni, development and public relations staffs)
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Alcohol prevention expert to lead
campus workshops (Alan Berkowitz)
Education dean finalists visit this
month (Sandra Bowman Damico, Walter Gmelch, Les Sternberg)
Departments team up to win science
positions (civil and construction engineering, mechanical engineering;
political science, physics and astronomy new faculty)
King observance opens Jan. 15 (Martin
Luther King Jr. celebration)
ABC stops at the Brunnier
next week (Atanasoff-Berry Computer)
What makes small retail districts
tick (Nancy Miller)
Comp center director search
opens
Campaign Destiny enters the second half
(ISU Foundation)
Extension program promotes personal
savings over three years (Money 2000)
Education students mentor faculty
(College of Education role reversal)
Announcements
- College for Seniors' Winterim begins next week
- Phone book recycling tally at nearly 25 tons
- Softball camps this weekend
- ISU 25-Year Club
- Call for seminar proposals (Honors Program seminars)
- Sustainable ag roundtable open to all
- ISU/Ames meeting guide (University Conference Services)
ISU community raises $160,000 for
United Way
Deaths
- Glen Russell
- Michael Warren
Receptions
- Lil Blau
- Wanda Niemann
- Maurice Larson
- Philip Ford
- Ken Smith
- Dahlia Stockdale
- Marcia Bankirer
A look back 1997
Honors
- Elected fellow, Gerald Sheble
- Research award, Cheuk-Yiu Ng
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