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1999
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 December 10, 1999
  • Committee ponders soft drink contract
  • Study on merger of campus food services continues
  • P&S Council proposes award for staff here less than five years
  • Bound for Science (and math too)
  • Sooner or later, it's going to snow
  • Flashbacks on the 20th century at ISU
  • Commencement Dec. 17-18
  • Faculty Senate Strategic plan on agenda
  • Tech take (purifying uranium)
  • Daily creates scholarships
  • Five Iowa/ISU meets this weekend
  • "Mugging" nominations sought
  • Ask Inside(holiday gift giving)
  • Death
    • Charlotte Bruner
  • Announcements
    • Governer's office open house
    • "Blitz build" a success
    • Blank check order eliminated
    • Parks Library renovations
    • 2000 Shrine all-star game
    • Historic uniforms sought
  • Receptions
    • Vic Berkkum
    • Mary Howard
    • Norma Seifert
    • Delwyn Bluhm
    • Karen Tow
    • Bernie White
    • Melva Berkland
    • Sandy Kalsem
    • Carole Seifert
    • William Thomas





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    November 19, 1999
  • Y2k repercussions expected to be minimal
  • Review of strategic plan draft continues
  • Lights celebration is Dec. 1
  • Sometimes bigger is better(virtual reality)
  • Filling in the blanks(Nancy Evans)
  • Richmond: Keep the focus on students
  • Letter on post-tenure review irks senators
  • Benefits program offers latitude
  • P&S, Merit staff are biggest users of wellness program
  • State land-use survey under way
  • Retirement
    • Dennis Keeney

  • Ask Inside
  • Announcements
    • Mentor a student
    • Workshop on meeting needs of minority faculty Dec. 8
    • It's a Factavailable
    • Some ISU Plan premiums to go up
    • ABC replica on display in Howe Hall
    • Jischke on Talk of Iowa
    • Honors poster presentation is Dec. 1
    • Talbot gift for vet med scholarships
    • ITC moving to Communications Building
    • Sing-along Messiahplanned
    • Holiday Concert Dec. 4
    • United Way deadline is Dec. 1





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    November 5, 1999
  • Proposed strategic plan "creative, futuristc"
  • Senate mulls separate faculty sexual harassment policy
  • Espinoza: Salaries based on merit, not longevity
  • Provost at next Faculty Forum
  • Atanasoff receives Iowa award
  • Call her a coach, but not a miracle worker (Marlise McCammon)
  • Vet students get the point (acupuncture)
  • Conduct policy, strategic plan on senate agenda
  • Announcements
    • Breakfast with the president
    • Gartner to speak to women's club
    • Regents award winners
    • Lunch with coach Eustachy
    • Entrepreneurs show to be broadcast on KASI radio
    • Tuition grant applications due Dec. 10
    • Deere Co. gives cash gift to C6
    • Sexual assault response team cited
    • Racing Day at Jack Trice Stadium
    • Santa and Fido
  • Muted swans back on LaVerne
  • Tech Take New shape for bales (hay, ridge-till)
  • Retirements
    • Marilyn Boswell
    • Beverly Hammer
    • Roger Lively
  • Ask Inside



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    October 22, 1999
  • Six will interview for Agriculture dean post
  • Engineering's "flagship," Howe Hall, opens Saturday
  • Jischke outlines priorities to senate
  • Letter to the editor
  • Espinoza: P&S classification system isn't about salaries
  • Behind the scenes, but ahead of the game
  • Provost creates associate post
  • Choral expert to hold music chair Nov. 4-6
  • Gift endows research center, chair in agricultural statistics
  • Alumni Association will honor 56 at Homecoming ceremony
  • Tech take(Quantity Cooking)
  • Swine center celebration is Oct. 30
  • ECE director candidates visit campus
  • Ask Inside(height of buildings)
  • Change your clocks
  • Youth theater troupe to visit campus Oct. 30
  • Chemist to give food tech talks
  • Announcements
    • Alumni award nominations due Dec.1
    • United Way/Habitat for Humanity gifts still short of goal
    • ISU names biotech outreach education coordinator
    • Andrle named director of CTRE
    • 25-year club will add new members
    • Assistors available to help
    • Save your phone books for recycling
    • Jischke on Talk of Iowa
    • Organ recital is Oct. 29
    • Ames Piano Quartet readies for concert, CD






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    October 8, 1999
  • Fed Facility named for Carver
  • Jischke, conduct policy top senate's October agenda
  • Food Prize recipient to speak at ISU
  • Views on teacher-as-entertainer query
  • Plant Sciences Institute directors named
  • Tech Take (Soybean boosters)
  • Scientist to explore universe birth
  • Industry hungry for grads in hot ISU program
  • Center program reaches out
  • Student plays showcased
  • Gift announcement highlights institute's lectures
  • Profs plead for lifeboat berth
  • Simplify is series message
  • Deaths
    • Elizabeth Elliott
    • Maurice Larson
  • Ask Inside(foals)
  • Announcements
    • Moon reappointed to chair
    • New course offered
    • Regents honor P&S staff
    • Grad/professional school fair
    • Catt Center hosts conference
    • Pappajohn to deliver lecture
    • Airport parking changes
    • ISU Women's Club meets
    • Jischke on WOI-AM Oct. 13
    • Free flu shots

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    September 24, 1999
  • Regents approve huge plant sciences initiative
  • Largest freshman class in 16 years pushes enrollment past 26,000
  • Free travel offered on AccessAir for a limited time
  • Letter to the Editor
  • Ombudsperson back on senate's priority list (faculty senate)
  • Tech Take (sensitive detection)
  • Getting answers from mystery writers (Silet, Loring)
  • Lab school celebrates 75 years on Sunday (child development)
  • Fall Road Scholars tour departs Oct. 1 for southeast Iowa
  • Survey, employee forums top P&S Council's to-do list (forums, grants)
  • Iowa Regents wrap-up
  • 1999 Institute on World Affairs Institute looks at prospects for democracy and peace
  • World Food Prize ceremony is Oct 14
  • DPS receives first responder status
  • Ask Inside (brick columns)
  • Announcements
    • Mums for Sale
    • Romer featured on Martha Stewartprogram
    • Lunch with President Jischke
    • Farm Progress Show tent highligts ISU projects
    • Gardens hires PR person
    • Business career conference for women
    • ISU drinking water report


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    September 10, 1999
  • ISU announces $80 Million gift
  • Faculty conduct policy on senate's agenda this year
  • Survey: Most ISU students use alcohol responsibly
  • Bernard's virtual vision (Jim Bernard)
  • WebCT to be demondstrated (on-line course development tool)
  • Star Wars topic of lecture
  • Bug fest kicks off lecture series
  • Estes named artist-in-residence (and Sept. schedule of events)
  • Search begins for vice provost for research and graduate studies
  • Ask Inside (personal use of copy centers)
  • Recycling efforts increase (newspaper recycling across campus)
  • Announcements
    • Plant sale at Reiman Gardens
    • New Year Reminder
    • ISU Theatre presents Lynda Barry play
    • Welcome receptions planned for international women
    • UWC seeks award nominations
  • Retirement
    • Gary L. "Buck" Knous
  • Tech take
  • ISU benefits committee is tracking Wellmark contracts

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    August 27, 1999
  • New facility aimed at livestock diseases
  • Union, residence food services to merge
  • Y2K crews will start checks at midnight
  • Jischke outlines priorities for coming academic year
  • Prof helps foreign journalists get the story
  • United Way, Habitat for Humanity campaigns merge with $200,000 goal
  • Tech take
  • ISU welcomes new faculty
  • Trumpeter swans to leave Lake LaVerne
  • Honors
    • Jane Farrell-Beck
    • Jacobson Athletic complex
  • Ask Inside
  • Announcements
    • Jischke on WOI-AM Sept. 1
    • Jischke op-ed: rejoin UNESCO
    • Learning community participation up again
    • Pierre soil science lecture
    • Appointments made in Veterinary Medicine
    • Bowling league to start
    • Central Stores extends hours
    • 100th anniversary of carillon celebrated in concert
    • P&S Council to host tailgate
    • ISU Women's Club welcomes newcomers
    • Steak fry is Sept. 7



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    August 13, 1999
  • Central campus symphony concert set for Aug. 24
  • Iowa State assumes a lead role in international consortium (Global Consortium of Higher Education and Research for Agriculture)
  • Central campus among three cited by landscape architects (ASLA medallion)
  • How hot was it? (July heatwave, heating plant)
  • Fall convocation is Aug. 24
  • Highlights of a full summer at Iowa State
  • On the cutting edge of textile printing (J.R. Campbell)
  • ISU Theatre season opens first week of semester
  • Ask Inside (tallest building)
  • 'New Student Days' weekend debuts Aug. 19
  • Announcements
    • New publication provides lively look at Iowa State ('Becoming the Best')
    • Mentors sought for freshman Honors students
    • Veterinary ophthalmologist joins ISU staff (Dr. Nick Whelan)
    • Staff sought at center
    • Learning community participation up again
    • C6 project receives Procter & Gamble gift
    • Request new employee access to ADP system early
  • Tech take
  • Steinke named governmental relations director
  • Petersen's model for The Gentle Doctor dies
  • Honors
    • Dale Chimenti
    • Jame Oliver
    • Frank Rizzo
    • Max Porter
    • Bill Beach, Tish Wetterhauer, Laura Miller, Bill Koenig, Jay Harmon, Mark Honeyman, and James Kliebenstein
    • College fall convocations lineup


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    July 23, 1999
  • Campus attracts political hopefuls
  • Answer Center expansion planned
  • Dome to get new roof
  • Sponsored funding hits record high
  • Aloha Hawaii, hello Iowa
  • DPS experts on the job
  • Lots is new on digital viewbook
  • Ticket policy approved for women's basketball
  • ABC replica, solar car at Iowa State Fair
  • Hawthorn construction under way
  • Nelson named director of student health center
  • Regents' wrap-up
  • ISU faculty win two national technology awards
  • Honors
  • Tech take
  • Johnson named Alumni director
  • Prototype in the works
  • Tips on how to prepare for tenure review
  • Ask Inside
  • Announcements
  • Swan to retire from administrative duties, work on book
  • ISU faculty win two national technology awards
  • Buck's roses bred to outlast an Iowa winter


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    July 2, 1999
  • New provost says he's a scholar at heart (Richmond)
  • ISU team captures 5th place in Sunrayce 99 (solar car)
  • Racial and ethnic harassment policy completed
  • Reggie White to give keynote at Iowa Games opening ceremonies
  • Alexander drops 'one size fits all' approach (residence halls)
  • Finalists to visit campus (governmental relations, alumni association director)
  • Connick tries it here first -- electronic sheet music
  • Hayes names to Pioneer Chair
  • Ask Inside (Atanasoff Hall)
  • FMCA comes to Ames
  • Announcements
    • Jischke on Talk of Iowa
    • Tuition grant dealine is July 23
    • New department chairs
    • CenterVision series canceled
    • New director for Academic Success Center
    • FCS received accreditation
  • Topel receives USDA honor award
  • Honors



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    June 11, 1999
  • Salary increases will average 4 percent (faculty, P&S, merit)
  • Carillonneurs meet at ISU this month
  • Plant sciences initiative receives $2.2 million boost (Center of Excellence in Fundamental Plant Sciences)
  • Keep race tabs on ISU's solar car team (Team PrISUm)
  • Opening doors to a college education (Jane Agyeman, Educational Talent Search)
  • The "composite" tenured faculty member at Iowa State
  • Council anticipates census survey of P&S staff (Rob Bowers, president)
  • Revised pay matrix gives more latitude on starting salaries (P&S employees)
  • Atanasoff memorabilia arrives at ISU (John V. Atanasoff)
  • Announcements
    • ABC replica will be on display at Ames museum, state fair
    • Proposals to internationalize classes, programs sought (Culture Corps Grants Program)
    • Temporary move for Dean of Students, Counseling staff
    • Parking changes are part of summer
    • Summer dance workshop (Iowa State Dance, Iowa Dance Theater)
  • Ask Inside (F. Wendall Miller)
  • Receptions
    • Donald Adams, biomedical sciences
    • Richard Engen, biomedical sciences
    • John Greve, veterinary pathology
    • Lyle Miller, veterinary pathology
    • William VanMeter, biomedical sciences
    • Wallace Wass, veterinary diagnostic and production animal medicine
    • M. Wayne Hefley, horticulture
    • Sherry Northup, athletics
    • Jim Hopson, ISU Alumni Association
  • Outdoor movie series opens this month at Scheman
  • Fragile Giants exhibit to go to D.C. (art exhibit, Loess Hills)
  • Honors
    • Regional nutrition award (Fran Passmore, ISU Extension)
    • Larry Johnson elected to Swedish Academy (CCUR)
    • Barton appointed to national advisory group (Tom Barton, U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Lab)
    • Martin emcees banquet (Steve Martin, materials science and engineering)
    • Distinguished service award (Emmett Stevermer, professor emeritus)
    • Dance finalists (ISU Dance, Janice Baker, Vernon Windosr)
    • Honor society memberships (Joel Snow, Walter Gmelch, Olivia Madison, James McCormick, Kate Schwennsen)
    • Communications award (Doug Cooper, Mark Jost, Elaine Edwards, Doug Cooper, Liisa Jarvien, Brian Meyer, Lynn Ekblad, Diane Nelson, Jill Koch, Julie Mangels, Mary Adams)
    • Leadership award (Laura Miller, Leopold Center)
  • University Museums, Family lawn party to be held

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    May 21, 1999
  • Butterflies, scarecrow highlight children's garden (Reiman Gardens)
  • P&S staff urged to speak up (classification and compensation guidelines)
  • Retirees donate flagpole to ISU cemetery
  • Matching funds affect R&R project success (student recruitment and retention efforts)
  • ISU, ARS to jointly operate swine center (National Swine Research and Information Center)
  • Students use science to solve whodunit (Gary Downs, curriculum and instruction department)
  • Carver Capsule
  • ISU Theatre to present Nixon's Nixon and Cox's The Promised Land
  • Ex-senate president takes a look back (Denise Vrchota, Faculty Senate)
  • A biologist's best friend (bioinformatics)
  • At the movies (popcorn breeding program)
  • Senate OKs revised teaching appointment policy (Faculty Senate, non-tenure-track staff)
  • Faculty approves post-tenure review
  • NSF grant funds new courses (teachers learn to promote science, math, engineering)
  • ISU lab gets national designation (Information Systems Security Lab)
  • Announcements
    • Special Olympians on campus (Iowa Special Olympics)
    • Jischke on Talk of Iowa (WOI-AM)
    • 12-month pay plan option (faculty, P&S)
    • Alumni Days (ISU Alumni Association)
    • Solar car wins pole position (PrISUm Phoenix)
    • Course development grants (Pappajohn Center, entrepeneurship)
    • New texbook supervisor (Sue Terry, University Book Store)
    • Web sites for the blind (Web Administrators Group)
  • Ask Inside (ISU cemetery)
  • Death
    • Ellen Parks, wife of former ISU President Robert Parks
  • Receptions
    • Sylvester Merritt, Ames Laboratory
    • Ralph Appelgate, Ames Laboratory
    • Frances Theile, Student Health Center
    • Leland Moats, ADP Center
    • Betty Netcott, Printing Services
    • Larry Larson, facilities planning and management
    • Ralph Nissen, facilities planning and management
    • Jim Hopson, ISU Alumni Association
    • Marilyn Holdredge, Research and Demonstration Farms
    • A.H. Epstein (plant pathology)
    • Ann Molison (Human Resource Services)
    • Jerry Knight (Meat Laboratory)

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    April 30, 1999
  • Hixson graduates to be recognized at commencement (Hixon Opportunity Awards)
  • Senior faculty must lead the conversion to electronic journals (costs for scholarly journals)
  • Yang fights through adversity to graduate with his peers (Hixson Scholar Bruce Yang)
  • Technology theme selected for next all-ISU celebration ("Advancing Technology: To Become the Best")
  • The thrill of "Eureka!" (Iver Anderson, materials science and engineering, patents)
  • Ag dean search committee sets timeline
  • There's still time to shape racial harassment policy
  • Carver Capsule
  • Ames voters reject hotel tax increase (Hilton Coliseum expansion)
  • Regents approve faculty promotion, tenure
  • Ask Inside (bicycles on campus)
  • Receptions
    • Clete Mercier, civil engineering, and Joyce Mercier, human development and family studies
    • Floyd Manwiller, forestry
    • David Carlson and Steve Wells, electrical and computer engineering
    • Steve Bishop and George Brown, zoology and genetics
    • Vivian Whitmore, cross-disciplinary studies, LAS
    • Karen Larson, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences administration
  • Announcements
    • Faculty ballots are due today (post-tenure review policy)
    • Inside moves to summer schedule
    • Summer tuition grant deadline (merit and P&S employees)
    • Iowa State Dance hosts concert (Mosaic and The Chamber Dancers)
    • Breakfast with Jischke (President Martin Jischke)
    • Booklet on creating accessible Web sites available (Iowa Program for Assistive Technology and the Iowa Department for the Blind)
    • WOI finishes best spring fund-raiser (WOI-AM and -FM)
    • Time to renew "extended loan" materials (ISU Library)
    • Geneticist to give guest lecture (Franklin Stahl, "Genetic Recombination")
    • Foreign travel grants due
    • St. Paul Sunday to help celebrate radio anniversary (50th anniversary events for WOI Radio)
    • Jischke on Talk of Iowa (President Martin Jischke)
    • IPRT appoints associate director (Joseph Gilbert)

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    April 16, 1999
  • Electronic journals bring convenience...and costs (costs for scholarly journals)
  • Improving learning communities is aim of May workshop (Iowa State's Learning Communities Advisory Committee)
  • Electronic discussion group starts (Faculty Senate)
  • Nebbe: Treat kids with respect (Chairty Nebbe, WOI Radio)
  • Senate approves new name for Ag college (College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources)
  • New internship announced (women faculty/academic administration careers)
  • Forum set on racial/ethnic harassment policy
  • Border Crossinginstalled April 19 (Brunnier Art Museum)
  • Composer conducts ISU visit (Karel Husa. 1999 Louise Moen Chair in Music)
  • P&S Council approves pro-Veishea, salary motions
  • Perceptions explores life (ISU Theatre's Second Stage Production)
  • ISU to test Web registration (AccessPlus)
  • Carver Capsule
  • Ask Inside (Veishea)
  • Announcements
    • WOI fund drive under way (WOI Radio)
    • Honors poster presentation (honor students)
    • Haydon named to center spot (Philip Haydon, associate director of the Microanalytical Instrumentation Center)
    • Miller recipients announced (Miller awards)
    • Lush conference set (animal genetics conference)
    • Carnival at Iowa State Center
    • Finalists named (Henry A. Wallace Endowed Chair for Sustainable Agriculture)
    • Intern positions open (Office of the President)
    • NSF seeks input on Internet (National Science Foundation)
    • ISU international agreements
  • Retirements
    • Duane Mangold, agricultural and biosystems engineering
    • Ramona Rouse, Iowa State Center
    • Walter Morris, foreign languages and literatures
    • Paul Hinz, statistics
    • Herman Kennedy, ISU heating plant
    • Guy DeShong, ISU heating plant
    • Sally Williams, family and consumer sciences education and studies
  • Veishea events

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    April 2, 1999
  • Journal woes not an ISU-only dilemma (costs for scholarly journals)
  • Six provost candidates named
  • Faculty vote on post-tenure review starts next week
  • Letter
  • Bamboo specialist finds a a home in Iowa (Lynn Clark, associate professor of botany)
  • Carver Capsule
  • April Faculty Forum will look at student-centered teaching (Barb Licklider, educational leadership and policy studies)
  • Veishea '99: Lots to do, so make your plans
  • Carver art to be unveiled April 15 (Christian Petersen sculpture; Youssef Assar mural)
  • Ask Inside
    • Are ISU facilities for rent?
  • Retirements
    • Steve Wells, College of Engineering
    • Carolyn Kundel, department of textiles and clothing
    • Judy Larson, ADP Center
    • William James, aerospace engineering and engineering mechanics
    • Donald Young, aerospace engineering and engineering mechanics
  • Merit staff receive four hours off, paid (AFSCME)
  • Announcements
    • Plant biochemistry/molecular biology conference
    • Restoration work begins on Farm House Museum
    • Jischke on Talk of Iowa April 7
    • Fashion show is April 9-10 (textiles and clothing department)
    • ERI limits its service range (electrical and computer engineering)
    • Ames Lab teams offer design repair services (Engineering Services Group)
  • Scholarship awarded (Iowa State Science and Technology Fair; Brooke Findley)
  • Hotel tax vote set for April 27 (Hilton Coliseum improvements)
  • Pilot recycling project under way (ISU Student Environmental Council)

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    March 19, 1999
  • Forum set on welfare reform (College of Family and Consumer Sciences)
  • Spring convocation March 29
  • Newlin defines shared governance (Faculty Senate)
  • Tuskegee ties renewed (George Washington Carver)
  • American Indian Symposium: Film producer Alexie to speak (Spokane Indian Sherman Alexie)
  • ISU cited for tech teaching (CEO Forum on Education and Technology)
  • When Lawrence talks, livestock farmers listen (John Lawrence, livestock market information)
  • Exhibits celebrate resiliency (Brunnier Art Museum)
  • Science, tech fair this month (Iowa State Science and Technology Fair)
  • Racial, ethnic harassment policy draft presented to P&S Council
  • Carver capsule
  • Ask Inside
    • Are there more cardinals on campus than there used to be?
  • Receptions
    • Garry Wirtz, ISU Printing Services
    • Rosalie Amos, family and consumer sciences education and studies
  • Dobson to Oklahoma State (John Dobson, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences interim dean)
  • Modern twist to Moliere (ISU Theatre, The Misanthrope)
  • Tickets on sale (McDonald's All American High School Basketball Game)
  • Announcements
    • Alumni calendar deadline
    • Seminar rescheduled ("Managing Your Money in Retirement: Options and Opportunities for Those With High Accumulations")
    • Course development grants (Pappajohn Center)
    • Workplace conference ("Family Friendly Workplaces: Strategies for Academic and Business Communities")
    • Credit union board candidates (ISU Credit Union)
    • President's lunch (President Martin Jischke)
    • Special Olympics volunteers
    • First Benson lecture set (Leonard Shlain, Donald Benson Memorial Lecture)
    • Antarctica trip planned (department of zoology and genetics)
  • All invited to harassment prevention forum ("Preventing Sexual Harassment in the University Community")

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    March 5, 1999
  • Anticipating Y2K: What the experts say
  • Racial harassment training is part of agreement with OCR (Office for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education)
  • Strategic plan review is rolling (Faculty Senate)
  • Carver Capsule
  • Letter (promotion and tenure document)
  • Raising the standards (Ann Vail, family and consumer sciences education and studies)
  • It's Barjche weekend at ISU (annual dance performance)
  • Student exchange team departs for Tuskegee Saturday (College of Agriculture/George Washington Carver celebration)
  • Two teaching center fellowships open for 1999-2000 (Center for Teaching Excellence; Charie Thralls, CTE faculty fellow)
  • Solar car team employs new race strategy (SunRayce 99)
  • Ask Inside
    • Who owns the Memorial Union?
  • Deaths
    • Robert Weeks, textbook buyer/supervisor
    • Berardo Valdes, associate professor
  • Announcements
    • Jischke, Stern on Talk of Iowa
    • Travel grant application deadline approaching
    • Stadium concert tickets on sale March 6 (George Strait Chevy Truck Country Musicl Festival)
    • Motor coach convention coming to campus in July (Family Motor Coach Association)
    • Lamar Alexander to speak on campus
    • Spring break is March 15-19
    • 25-Year Club reservations due
    • Strong-Minded Women Award nominations sought (Catt Center)
    • New Year's holiday changed
    • Cafe' opens at Vet Med
    • Internationalization grant deadline is April 5 *ISU Council on International Programs)
    • Provost Office review (Faculty Senate)
    • New Bulletin available (1999-2001 courses and programs undergraduate catalog)
    • Odyssey of the Mind regional event is March 13
    • Tickets on sale for Women's Club annual luncheon
    • Workshop on water issues (Nonpoint Source Conference and Provost's Workshop)
  • Honors
    • Patriot award (Ed Kannel, civil and construction engineering)
    • Appointed chair (Mufit Akinc, materials science and engineering)
    • Honorary professor (Glen Schrader, chemical engineering)


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    February 19, 1999
  • Search opens for ag dean (College of Agriculture)
  • New travel service begins March 1
  • Carver Capsule
  • Journal study committee submits 27 ideas to ease funding woes (Olivia Madison; library sciences; Faculty Senate)
  • Senate sees racial harassment policy draft (Policy on Racial and Ethnic Harassment; Faculty Senate)
  • Leaving a (better) mark on his homeland (Bing-Lin Young, IITAP)
  • Espinoza: Harassment education effort planned (P&S Council)
  • Black history events continue this month (Black History Month)
  • Saturday Night Live cast member to speak on campus (Ana Gasteyer)
  • Peer review is focus of March 8 forum (March Faculty Forum and Dinner)
  • English faculty organize their own teaching workshop
  • Announcements
    • Science Coalition highlights ISU science
    • TIAA-CREF cashability option revised (Board of Regents pilot program)
    • Town meeting on Christian Petersen (University Museums)
    • Connections reception (Task Force on Race; University Committee on Women; "Making Connections")
    • Risk management moves
    • International lecture series continues (Office of International Students and Scholars and the International Student Council)
    • New campus paging system in effect
    • Wellness database site (Wellness Center)
    • Surplus computer policy (Asset Recovery Program)
    • Basketball spirit rallies (Big 12 tournaments)
  • Ask Inside (Osborn Cottage and Sloss House)
  • Women's Day celebration is March 8 (International Women's Day)
  • Receptions
    • Dean Prestemon, extension forester
    • David Brown, painter, ISU heating plant
  • Mainframe era winds down (Academic Information Technology)
  • MBA program finds Des Moines base (College of Business)

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    February 5, 1999
  • Food merger proposal goes to Jischke (residence department/Memorial Union)
  • Rabideau begins in LAS dean post July 1 (Peter Rabideau)
  • ISU tapped for aid pilot project (Access America for Students)
  • Letters
    • FCS college ties to Tuskegee go back to 1967
    • Why the difference in ISU, UI tax policies?
  • Day-long diversity fest planned ("Diversity Day")
  • Dole lecture is Feb. 19 (Elizabeth Dole, Mary Louise Smith Endowed Chair in Women and Politics)
  • Battling cancer through plant research (Diane Birt)
  • City Council hears Hilton plan (Hilton Coliseum seating project)
  • Crown Heights-based drama plays this month (Faces in the Mirror)
  • Safe Zone stickers raise awareness, lend support, study shows (LGBT)
  • Ask Inside
    • "Can ISU employees use any services at the student health center?"
  • Announcments
    • Proposals sought for computer equipment (Computer Advisory Committee)
    • Financial aid mini-conference is next week (Office of Student Financial Aid)
    • Van driving course is Feb. 9 (Transportation Services)
    • Swine system conference (Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture)
    • Research methodologies presentation (John Creswell, University of Nebraska, Lincoln)
    • University Women's Club meets
    • Student essay contest honors Carver ("Legacy of Excellence Essay Contest", African American studies program, George Washington Carver)
    • 25-Year Club banquet
    • Lunch with Bill Fennelly (faculty-staff lunch)
  • Retirements
    • Carlton Moen
    • Jeanne Gehm
  • Carver Capsule
  • Better butter may be on the horizon



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    January 22, 1999
  • Plans set to improve Hilton (Hilton Coliseum)
  • Steps suggested for minority student success (Howard Shapiro, vice provost, undergraduate programs)
  • Senate to examine shared governance definition (Faculty Senate)
  • Letter: Free the Inside 8
  • Partnership helps Iowa communities spruce up (Julia Badenhope; Iowa's Living Roadways)
  • College of Education expands South African program (Karen Donaldson; University of Pretoria)
  • P&S Council: Council promotes family leave policy
  • New program helps first-year students acclimate to campus (New Student Days; Liz Kurt)
  • Science Bowl set for Jan. 30 (Ames Lab)
  • Ask Inside (custodial staff cleaning rotation)
  • Announcements
    • Lunch with President Jischke
    • Panel on academic advising (University Academic Advising Committee)
    • Scooping ice cream (Margaret Sloss Women's Center)
    • More travel agency choices
    • Hotline service is Sunday (college information hotline)
    • New education curator (Matthew DeLay, University Museums)
    • Board members sought (ISU Credit Union)
    • Spanish short courses (foreign languages and literatures department)
    • Leadership Initiative Awards (1999 President's Leadership Initiative Awards)
    • Health fair is Jan. 28 (Student Health Center)
    • ISU among top royalty earners (Association of University Technology Managers)
    • Candidates sought (Professional and Scientific Council)
  • Faculty Forums resume Feb. 8
  • United Way giving sets a record
  • '99 National Institute looks at reality in American film (Institute on National Affairs; "Film in America: Creating Reality")



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    January 8, 1999
  • Student exchange with Tuskegee shaping up for March (Collge of Agriculture students/Tuskegee University)
  • ISU departments will get first option on surplus inventory (Intramural Transfer Day)
  • "Safe Zone" review results to be shared (LGBT)
  • Ask Inside (crosswalks)
  • Education scholarship will honor Gov. Branstad (Branstad Scholarship in Education)
  • Teaching the American Dream (Howard Van Auken, associate professor of management)
  • Gift funds another expansion at Reiman Gardens (Town and Country Garden)
  • King celebration opens Jan. 15 (Martin Luther King Jr. birthday)
  • Elizabeth Dole headlines spring lecture series (Institute on National Affairs)
  • ISU to help create dietetics program for Pakistan (College of Family and Consumer Sciences)
  • Carver Capsule (George Washington Carver)
  • Astronomers find galactic collisions more common than previously thought (Russ Lavery, assistant professor of physics and astronomy)
  • Year 2000 may pose problems for researchers
  • Announcements
    • Inyang named to environmental health and safety post (David Inyang)
    • TIAA-CREF pilot program under way
    • Research participants needed (health and human performance; nutritional supplments)
    • ISU among top 15 in Merit scholars
    • Museums gift sponsors bus transportation
    • Y2K site intended to assist small businesses (Iowa Small Business Development Center)
    • Venture competition winners named (College of Business)
    • Regents award nominations due Feb. 1 (staff excellence)
    • New library catalog debuts
  • Death
    • Alston "Jerry" Shakeshaft, assisstant professor emeritus, political science
  • Dismantling plan for reactor completed (10-kilowatt nuclear teaching reactor)
  • The Budd House: A tradition of inspiration (Etta Budd)
  • Honors
    • Service award (Dennis Kenney, Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture)
    • Patient recipients honored (College of Engineering)
    • Educator of the year (Ruth Glock, textiles and clothing)
    • Manual selected for state use (David Ballard, facilities planning and management)

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