Jan. 21
Senate preparing for budget cuts
Executive vice president and provost Elizabeth Hoffman fielded questions about budget concerns, and senators eyed proposed policy revisions on the termination of faculty positions during the Jan. 19 Faculty Senate meeting.
Jan. 21
Details announced on merit staff's mandatory unpaid days
The state and labor union have approved an implementation plan for mandatory unpaid days for regent university employees covered by the state's contract with AFSCME.
Warmer days ahead
Jan. 21
They'll be back
Remember when a patch of shade was what you craved to escape the heat, and the sun was so bright it hurt your eyes? Take heart; those days will return ... probably just not this month.
Jan. 21
Tax credit could yield unhappy surprise
A tax credit implemented by Congress last spring put more money in ISU employees' pockets in 2009, but you could face a year-end tax liability. Find out why.
Jan. 21
How engaged are our students?
Iowa State's relative strength is in students' learning community, internship, research and community service participation, according to a 2009 national survey of student engagement.
Dance Marathon
Jan. 21
Spectators welcome at Dance Marathon
Iowa State students and other dancers will attempt to raise $200,000 in 15 hours Jan. 23 during the annual Dance Marathon. Faculty and staff are welcome to stop by and get in on the fun.
Jan. 21
Round 2 of RIO applications
Eighteen employees have requested participation in the Retirement Incentive Option 2 program thus far. Human resource services staff expect that number to go up when benefits changes take over in February.
Announcements
- Proposals sought for University Honors Program fall seminars
- Search open for next professor in charge of ISU Carver Academy
- Funeral mass for former Ag dean Lee Kolmer is Jan. 22
- Donate new or used clothing to Haiti earthquake victims through Jan. 29
- $500 reward for information about vandalism to campus art sculpture
- Women in Motion dance workshop
- Egg experts featured on the History Channel's "Modern Marvels" Jan. 21
- Feed your brain nutritiously
- "Swim and Gym" for elementary children begins Feb. 2
Receptions & open houses
Retirements
- Marcia Clendenen, Jan. 21
- Myrt Hanson, Jan. 22
- Alice Fellingham and Pat Helms, Jan. 25
- Betty Davis, Jan. 27
- Carol Lindgren, Jan. 27
- Sue Griffin, Gayle Huey and Carolyn Klaus, Jan. 28
- John Kingland, Jan. 28
- Gary Russell, Jan. 28
- Bill Britton, Dick Egger, Karen Lind and Beverly Nutt, Jan. 29
- Jeff Berger, Jan. 29
- Larry Dau, Jan. 29
- Mary Ingersoll, Jan. 29 (no event)
- Carolyn Mabee, Jan. 29
- Dave Volkers, Jan. 29
- Bill Williams, Jan. 29 (no event)
- Chloris Williams, Jan. 29
Arts & events
Craig Brackins
Home again
Leave the cardinal gear in the closet, it's "Gold Rules" when the Cyclone men face No. 3 Kansas Jan. 23 in Hilton.
Around campus
Finding animal feed uses for ethanol co-product
ISU researchers hope to safely increase the use of an ethanol byproduct as feed for cattle, poultry.
Teams to develop better biofuels
Two ISU research teams will receive $8 million to research and develop advanced biofuels. Their efforts are part of a $78 million program in the U.S. Department of Energy.
Iowa Staters part of team that sequences soybean genome
Two collaborating faculty members in agronomy are part of the national team that has sequenced the soybean genome.
