Inside Iowa State
September 22, 2000
Announcements
Richmond Center relocates
The Richmond Center, which contracts to provide Iowa
State's Employee Assistance Program, has moved. The new
location is at 125 S. Third St., Ames. The phone number
remains the same.
Director named for engineering program
Rebecca Kellogg, adjunct assistant professor in
aerospace and engineering mechanics, has been named director
for engineering distance education, the outreach education
facility for the College of Engineering.
Carillon festival this weekend
The ISU Carillon Festival 2000 will be held Friday
through Sunday, Sept. 22-24, on campus. It will feature
carillon concerts each afternoon, a composition competition
for young composers and a seminar at 1:30 p.m. Saturday on
carillonneur Percival Price by Beverly Buchanan of Belmont
University, Nashville, Tenn. A schedule of events is
listed, or visit this Web site:
www.music.iastate.edu/carillon.
Open house Oct. 6 at Student Services Building
The campus community is invited to an open house in the
refurbished Student Services Building from 3 to 5 p.m.
Friday, Oct. 6. All offices will be open and refreshments
served. The building is home to Minority Student Affairs,
Student Counseling Service, Substance Abuse Programming and
the Dean of Students office (including Judicial Affairs,
Academic Success Center, Student Assistance Program and LGBT
Student Services).
Visiting prof seeks collaborative projects
A rural sociologist from Peru is developing
collaborative projects this fall as a visiting professor at
The North Central Regional Center for Rural Development.
María Fernández, National Agricultural University of Peru, La
Molina, will design a rural development project for ISU and
Grupo Yanapai, a nonprofit organi-zation in Peru's Central
Highlands. Faculty and staff interested in developing
collaborations with Fernandez can contact her at 4-4295.
Center for Designing Foods joins Plant Sciences
Institute
The Center for Designing Foods to Improve Nutrition is
joining the Plant Sciences Institute. It becomes the ninth
research center under the umbrella of the institute. The
Center for Designing Foods has been administered through the
College of Family and Consumer Sciences and the food sciences
and human nutrition department since 1990. Diane Birt,
professor and chairman of the department, is director of the
designing foods center.
Center faculty and scientists conduct research to improve nutrition and promote good health through new and traditional foods.
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