Announcements


SPECIAL OLYMPICS

More than 3,500 persons with mental and physical 
disabilities, from age 8 to 80, are on campus this weekend to 
participate in the 1995 Iowa Special Olympics State Summer 
Games.

Each participant qualified for the state meet after competing 
at the local level. The athletes will compete in a variety of 
events, including track and field, soccer, cycling, swimming, 
tennis, roller skating, golf and race walking.

This is the 10th year Ames has hosted the Special Olympics 
summer games.

Events began Thursday and will continue through noon 
Saturday. Volunteers still are needed, especially on 
Saturday. Persons interested in volunteering should go to the 
volunteer check-in area at the west end of the Lied Athletic 
Recreation Facility between 8 am. and 4 p.m. Friday, May 26, 
or between 8 a.m. and noon Saturday, May 27.


TALK OF IOWA

President Martin Jischke and horticulture department chair 
Michael Chaplin will be guests on the Wednesday, June 7, Talk 
of Iowa radio show. They will report on the progress of the 
Reiman Gardens. 

Talk of Iowa, which airs weekdays on WOI-AM, begins at 10 
a.m.

WOI-AM is at 640 on the radio dial.


FOREIGN EXCHANGES

Faculty interested in participating in an exchange with a 
foreign university with which ISU has a formal agreement 
should obtain instructions and application forms in the Study 
Abroad Center, 5 Hamilton. Following are the deadlines for 
applying:

--Sept. 12, application due in departmental office.

--Oct. 3, application due in college office.

--Nov. 1, application due in Study Abroad Center.

For more information, contact Trevor Nelson, Study Abroad 
Center, 4-6792.


CHEMISTRY STORES

Chemistry Stores will be closed for inventory June 12-14. 
Liquid nitrogen and dry ice will be sold ONLY at 9:30 a.m. 
and 12:30 p.m. during the inventory period.

The cutoff for items billed on FY95 funds is noon on June 29.

Chemistry Stores hours are 7:30-11:50 a.m. and 12:30-4 p.m. 
through Aug. 11.


FOREIGN TRAVEL GRANTS

Applications for foreign travel grants are due by noon Oct. 
16 in the Faculty Senate Office, 101 Lab of Mechanics. 
Faculty should check with their deans' offices for college 
deadlines. Travel dates should be between Aug. 16, 1995, and 
May 15, 1996.


P&S PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT GRANTS

The next deadline to apply for P&S professional development 
grants is June 1. Guidelines for submitting proposals are 
available in the Office of the Provost, 
107 Beardshear. Questions should be directed to a member of 
the P&S Professional Development Committee or the Office of 
the Provost, 4-5882.


VOLUNTEERS NEEDED TO PLANT FLOWERS

Volunteers interested in putting their green thumbs to work 
are needed at Reiman Gardens from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays, 
beginning June 5. Volunteers will help with a variety of 
gardening jobs, including unpotting, planting and watering 
thousands of flowers. Jobs will vary from light to moderate 
work.

Interested persons may sign up for a time to work at the 
gardens by calling 4-2710 or faxing a message to 4-4817.

Located south of Cyclone Stadium/Jack Trice Field, the Reiman 
Gardens will open this summer. The seven-acre facility will 
include rose, herb, wetlands and other gardens. The gardens 
are financed by $2 million in private gifts to ISU.

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contact:  Internal Communications, (515) 294-3129
updated:  5-26-95