Inside Iowa State

February 11, 2005

Announcements

H1 application fee to rise nearly fourfold

Campus units that employ or hope to employ new, non-student, internationals in professional positions should note that the application fee to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (formerly known as INS) for H-1B "temporary worker" immigration status will increase from $185 to $685 March 8. The higher fee applies only to first-time H applications or transfers of H employment from another entity to ISU. It doesn't apply to renewals of H status for continuing employees at ISU.

To avoid the $500 fee increase, ISU employees who will change their status to H, or new employees who will transfer their H status to ISU, should begin the H application process by Feb 21. Contact Deb Vance, International Education Services, dvance@iastate.edu, for application materials and instructions.

Get the latest ISU news

The News Service site, which provides updates on the latest Iowa State news and activities, now is available as an RSS/XML news feed. Information about news feeds is online at http://www.iastate.edu/~nscentral/news/newsfeed.shtml.

'Physics, Sunny Side Up'

Physics and astronomy professor Laurent Hodges will present "Physics, Sunny-side Up" -- an entertaining look at watts, photons, mass, the Sun and the Earth -- from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 26, at the Ames Public Library. The event is part of the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory celebration of the 2005 World Year of Physics.

Career conference for girls

The "Taking the Road Less Traveled" career conferences for girls, sponsored by the program for women in science and engineering, will be held April 7 (grades 9-12), April 14 (grades 6-9) and April 21 (grades 6-9) on campus. The conferences provide information on career paths in science, technology, engineering and math. Registration information is available as a pdf online at http://www.pwse.iastate.edu.

YWCA sitters list available

The spring YWCA Sitters List is for parents seeking occasional childcare. The list (free to ISU students) is $2 ($1 more, if mailed). The order form is online at the YWCA Web site.

ISCORE set for March 4

The Iowa State Conference on Race and Ethnicity (ISCORE) will be held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, March 4, in the Memorial Union. Modeled on the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity, ISCORE is a forum on issues of race and ethnicity at Iowa State and beyond. More information is online at: http://www.admissions.iastate.edu/iscore.

Faculty death

Fred Duffelmeyer, professor of curriculum and instruction, died Jan. 29 in Ames. He was 61 and had retired from the university last semester. The family prefers memorials to the department of curriculum and instruction.

Fred Duffelmeyer, professor of curriculum and instruction, died Jan. 29 in Ames. He was 61 and had retired from the university last semester. The family prefers memorials to the department of curriculum and instruction.