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Iowa State students to compete in net-zero national competition
Left to Right: Devin Gaudette, Kayla Youngblood, Nathan Pals, Carissa Moyna, Leo Brocka, Lauren Wibe, Grace Mergens, Jordan Girolamo, Parker Lloyd, Collin Blatchford. Courtesy of Carissa Moyna For the past five years, Iowa State has won the ELECTRI International Green Energy Challenge competition and is competing again this year.
Learn what goes into creating 'Disney magic' at the Memorial Union
Lee Cockerell, former Executive Vice President of Operations at Walt Disney World Resort addresses the crowd at the Professional Development Center, Patrick Air Force Base, Fla., April 8, 2016. The author’s presentation about keys to becoming a great leader was the first of three events in the 45th Force Support Squadron’s Leadership Speaker Series.
Study abroad center welcomes new director
Newly-appointed Frank Peters discusses his new role as the Study Abroad Director. The question he wants to ask students at the Study Abroad Fair on Thursday is not if they are going to study abroad, but when. Danielle Peterson/Iowa State Daily Frank Peters, an associate professor and holds the C.G. "Turk" and Joyce A. Therkildsen endowed professorship in industrial and manufacturing systems engineering, was appointed as the new study abroad director on Jan. 2.
Looking back at Live!Green
The fall of 2018 was the start of a year-long celebration of 10 years of the Live Green! Initiative on campus. To mark the celebration, every month of the 2018-19 school year Live! Green has hosted different events, each pertaining to a theme relating to sustainability.
10 years of Merry: Director of sustainability celebrates decade at Iowa State
+2 Merry Rankin, director of sustainability at Iowa State, works from her office in the General Services Building on Jan. 15. Rankin will be celebrating 10 years at Iowa State this year. Rankin is also director of the Live Green! Initiative, which aims to encourage faculty, staff and students to engage in sustainable behavior that keeps the Iowa State campus green.
Green organizations table at the Memorial Union for America Recycles Day
Recycling coordinator Oluwalana at his office in the university's General Services Building. Talon Delaney Organizations on campus tabled in the Memorial Union Thursday to spread awareness to students on the importance of recycling on campus while celebrating America Recycles Day. Ayodeji Oluwalana, recycling coordinator for Facilities Planning and Management, was one of the hosts of the event and said he has been wanting to inform students about recycling on campus.
Professor of agronomy co-contributes to national climate report
Mahdi Al-Kaisi, professor of Agronomy, worked on an international team on a National Academies Climate Report. Courtesy of Mahdi Al-Kaisi Mahdi Al-Kaisi, professor of agronomy at Iowa State, recently co-authored on a National Academies Climate report on carbon dioxide removal and the positive impact it could have on climate change. The report, titled "Negative Emissions Technologies and Reliable Sequestration: A Research Agenda," was commissioned by the National Academies of Sciences.
Campus organizations to celebrate America Recycles Day in the Memorial Union
Clubs and organizations at Iowa State will share the importance of recycling on America Recycles Day in the Memorial Union on Thursday. America Recycles Day is part of the Keep America Beautiful initiative and is the only nationally recognized day in the United States that promotes and encourages recycling.
Researcher to speak about lion convservation
Craig Packer, director of the Lion Research Center at the University of Minnesota, will be speaking Monday in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union in his lecture "Lion Conservation on a Crowded Continent."Packer is a long-time researcher on lion behavior and human-lion interaction for the well-known Serengeti Lion Project, according to the Lectures program.The Serengeti Lion Project is the oldest lion research project in Africa that monitors and studies lion populations in inaccessible parts...
United Nations climate report details environmental disasters by 2040
A United Nations-issued report on climate change predicts increased wildfires, drought and massive die off of coral reefs if the priorities of the world economy are not drastically changed by 2040.The report, commissioned by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was released Oct.
Owner of 'The Greatest Store In the Universe' to discuss sustainability
The RAYGUN store at 505 East Grand Avenue in Des Moines, Iowa. Tony Webster Mike Draper, owner of Iowa-based clothing company RAYGUN, will speak in the Sun Room in the Memorial Union on Thursday from 7 to 9 p.m.His lecture, “Making T-Shirts out of Pop Bottles” is part of the sustainability speaker series for the month of October. The series is to help celebrate 10 years of the Live Green! Initiative at Iowa State.
Andrew Kozlowski discusses sustainability and art
Artist and printmaker Andrew Kozlowski spoke at the Memorial Union on Thursday about his artistic influences and how to reduce waste in his lecture “Art and Our Culture of Ephemerality.”“I realized as an artist that I wanted to tell a story about a world that I saw,” Kozlowski said, “But I never wanted to make it seem like I was ever hammering someone with an overall message.”Kozlowski said first works of art were influenced by his thoughts about how humans deal with natural disasters.
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