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25 unusual facts about Iowa State University


Alicia Candiani

She studied at National University of Córdoba, Argentina (M.F.A. 1976, Architect 1978): University of Buenos Aires, Argentina (Art Criticism 1989-91) and Iowa State University, United States (Digital Imaging Techniques, 1991–92).

Analysis of variance

This design-based analysis was discussed and developed by Francis J. Anscombe at Rothamsted Experimental Station and by Oscar Kempthorne at Iowa State University.

Beardshear Hall

Beardshear Hall is an administration building at Iowa State University located on Beardshear Road.

Carver Hall

Carver Hall is an academic building completed in 1969 at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa to accommodate rapid increases in enrollment.

Cornerstone Church of Ames

International Friendship Connection (IFC): An official student organization at Iowa State University sponsored by Cornerstone Church that reaches out to international students.

Cornerstone Church was established in 1994 from its roots as a ministry for Iowa State University college students that was connected with Grand Avenue Baptist Church in Ames.

CyRide

In 1929, the dinkey was replaced by a bus system that transported passengers to and from the Iowa State University.

Iowa State University charges a fee each semester to all students for CyRide service.

Students of Iowa State University are able to ride CyRide without paying the normal fare by presenting the bus driver with their Iowa State identification card.

Iowa State University College of Business

Iowa State University's College of Business was established in 1984, and is accredited by AACSB International – The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.

Iowa State University College of Human Sciences

Iowa State University's College of Human Sciences was established in 2005, as the result of a merger of the now defunct College of Education and College of Family and Consumer Sciences, and therefore, is currently the newest college of Iowa State University.

Formed in 1968, the College of Education at Iowa State University was composed of three academic departments, Curriculum & Instruction, Educational Leadership & Policy Studies, and Health and Human Performance.

Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine

Iowa State University's College of Veterinary Medicine was established in 1879 and is the oldest veterinary college in the United States.

Built in 1976, VET MED is the largest academic building at Iowa State University, with over 347,000 square-feet.

Isa Kalantari

He has a BSc degree of agriculture from Urmia University, MSc of Physiology-Biochemistry from Iowa State University, and PhD in agricultural physiology from University of Nebraska.

James Lorraine Geddes

After the war, Geddes was principal of the Iowa College for the Blind at Vinton, and until his death was connected with the Iowa College of Agriculture at Ames, being military instructor and cashier in 1870–1882, acting president in 1875–77, librarian in 1877–78, vice-president and professor of military tactics in 1880–82, and treasurer in 1884–87.

Jordan Creek Town Center

In May 2007, Iowa State University economists David Swenson and Liesl Eathington released a study showing that retail sales in the Dallas County portion of West Des Moines had increased by over $310 million, or 503.7 percent, during Jordan Creek's first two years of operation.

Josiah Whitney

He was appointed state chemist and professor in the Iowa State University in 1855, and together with James Hall, he issued reports on Iowa's geological survey (1858-1859).

KWQC-TV

Originally on channel 5, WOC-TV moved to channel 6 in 1952 due to interference with Iowa State University's WOI-TV in Ames.

Murray Joslin

Joslin obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Iowa State University in 1923.

Ophelia Alcantara Dimalanta

Her first collection of poems, Montage, won the Iowa State University Best Poetry Award (1969), and first prize (poetry category) in the Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature (1974).

PrISUm

Team PrISUm is the multidisciplinary student-run solar car racing team from Iowa State University that designs and builds solar powered vehicles to compete in the American Solar Challenge (ASC).

Team PrISUm consists of about 40 team members from the Iowa State University campus and welcomes students from all majors interested in working on any aspect of the diverse project.

StrangeSearch

It was originally developed at Iowa State University and is the inspiration of several search engines.

Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth

In 1986, it moved to Iowa State University, where it was headed by Dr Camilla Benbow until 1990, and from then on by Dr Benbow and Dr David Lubinski.


Allan Mackintosh

On leaving Cambridge in 1960, he became Associate Professor of Physics at Iowa State University and worked in its Ames Laboratory for seven years.

Ames/ISU Ice Arena

Ames/ISU Ice Arena is an ice arena and recreational sport facility located in Ames, Iowa and owned and operated by Ames Parks & Rec Department and Iowa State University.

Arcadia, Louisiana

Marcus Fizer, professional basketball player, former collegiate All-American at Iowa State University (1999–2000) and McDonald's All-American from Arcadia High School (1996–1997)

Arjula Ramachandra Reddy

After obtaining a Ph. D., from Osmania University, he moved on to USA where he did research in genetics both at Iowa State University and Johns Hopkins University.

Arundinaria

Most recently, in 2006 researchers from Iowa State University and the University of North Carolina recognised and described a third species, Arundinaria appalachiana Triplett, Weakley & L.G. Clark.

Band mapping

"Photoemission study of the rare earth intermetallic compounds: RNi2Ge2 (R = Eu, Gd)." 2004, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa

Ben Peterson

Peterson grew up in Comstock, Wisconsin, attending nearby Cumberland High School before attending Iowa State University.

Berthold Ullman

He joined the faculty at Chicago and also taught at the University of Pittsburgh and Iowa State University He taught at the University of Chicago from 1925 until 1944 before moving to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, becoming Kenan professor of Latin and department chair.

Brock Gillespie

He is the son of notable long-time college basketball coach, Marty Gillespie, who had his own standout athletic career as a two-sport athlete (baseball/basketball) at Iowa State University in the 1970s and was drafted in the Major League Baseball Draft twice; once by the St. Louis Cardinals and once by the Minnesota Twins.

Bruce Roth

After receiving his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Iowa State University in 1981, he spent a year as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Rochester, then joined Parke-Davis of Warner-Lambert Company as a Medicinal Chemist in 1982.

Ciudad del Saber

Among the members of the academic section are the Balboa Academy, ILISA (a Spanish language school), Isthmus University (architecture), and international programs of McGill University, University of Pennsylvania, Florida State University, Saint Louis University, Iowa State University, and SIT Study Abroad (School for International Training).

Clark R. Mollenhoff

In 1988 he wrote a biography of John Vincent Atanasoff, the Iowa State College professor who invented the first electronic digital computer in 1939.

Edward M. Walsh

Walsh is a graduate of the National University of Ireland and holds Masters and Doctorate qualifications in nuclear and electrical engineering from Iowa State University where he was an Associate of the US Atomic Energy Commission Laboratory in Ames, Iowa.

Fraternity Vacation

Fraternity Vacation is a 1985 low-budget American sex comedy starring Stephen Geoffreys as a nerdy pledge to the Theta Pi Gamma fraternity at Iowa State, with Tim Robbins and Cameron Dye as Theta Pi Gamma frat boys (or, as they are known to their Iowa State frat rivals, "Theta Pigs").

Jack Trice

However, an Iowa State University ad hoc committee voted to advise then-Iowa State University President W. Robert Parks to name the stadium “Cyclone Stadium.”

James Banning

He later became a demonstration pilot on the west coast, flying a biplane named "Miss Ames" (he had attended Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa).

Jerry McNertney

McNertney signed with the Chicago White Sox in 1958 after attending Gilbert High School and Iowa State University.

Kai-Ming Ho

Kai-Ming Ho is a Senior Physicist at Ames Laboratory and distinguished Professor in Department of Physics and Astronomy at Iowa State University.

Keith Yamamoto

Dr. Yamamoto was born in Des Moines, Iowa, and graduated from Iowa State University with a B.S. in Biochemistry and Biophysics in 1968.

M. Frederick Hawthorne

He conducted postdoctoral research at Iowa State University before joining the Redstone Arsenal Research Division of the Rohm and Haas Company in Huntsville, Alabama.

Photonics and Nanostructures: Fundamentals and Applications

The editors-in-chief are H. Benisty, (Campus Polytechnique), T.F. Krauss (University of St Andrews), E. Ozbay (Bilkent University), and C.M. Soukoulis (Iowa State University).

Ulmus 'Lobel'

'Lobel' was introduced to North America in 1991 when Heybroek donated material to the North Central Regional PI Station, Iowa State University, but the tree is not known to have been commercially released there.

W. C. Friley

In 1932, he became the dean of the science division at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa.

Warren Rovetch

With EES and then with his firm Campus Facilities Associates, Rovetch did management and planning studies for the University of Chicago, City University of New York, Ohio Board of Regents, Rutgers, California State University, Iowa State University, and other institutions.

Zevs Cosmos

"Zevs Cosmos" appeared at Iowa State University around 1982, often preaching on central campus, sometimes drawing crowds away from "Brother Jed Smock", another traveling evangelistic preacher who also made regular appearances on campus.