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Iowa State's Hira offers money saving survival tips in a tight economy

7-17-2008

Soaring prices for fuel and food are putting strains on people's pocketbooks. Tahira Hira, professor of personal finance and consumer economics in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies, offers simple tips for making a shoestring budget stretch further, in an ISU News Service news re... Read More

 

ISU faculty create rural renaissance community index to curb out-migration

6-25-2008

High water is making the news today, but a flood of Iowans leaving the state may have a greater impact. A group of 12 Iowa State University researchers, led by Ann Marie Fiore and co-led by Linda Niehm, is working to stem the tide of people pouring out of the state. The researchers' community index... Read More

 

ISU food science and human nutrition scholars rack up six AOCS awards

6-19-2008

The American Oil Chemists' Society (AOCS) recognized the research efforts of Iowa State's food science and human nutrition faculty members and graduate students during its annual meeting on May 20 in Seattle. The AOCS is a 99-year-old international society for individuals an... Read More

 

ISU professors honored for leadership, research in hospitality, tourism

6-18-2008

Four Iowa State University professors have beencited with top honors for excellence, by their peersin the largest hospitality and tourism education association in the world. An ISUadministrator and a three-person ISU research team will each receive awards from the International Council on Hotel, R... Read More

 

ISU's Achterberg resigns; accepts new post at Ohio State

6-6-2008

AMES, Iowa -- Cheryl Achterberg, inaugural dean of Iowa State University's College of Human Sciences, has accepted a position at The Ohio State University, Columbus, effective July 1. Achterberg will become dean of Ohio State's College of Education and Human Ecology. ISU News Service News Release.... Read More

 

Higher education expert to join Iowa State University faculty

5-28-2008

Ames, Iowa — Linda Serra Hagedorn, professor and chair of the educational administration and policy at the University of Florida, has accepted a position at Iowa State University as the director of the Research Institute for Studies in Education (RISE) and will also serve as a professor of e... Read More

 

Iowa State students win three of four national awards from AAFCS

5-27-2008

AMES, Iowa -- Iowa State University’s Family and Consumer Sciences Education and Studies Club has swept the awards of its national parent organization in 2008.Iowa State chapter affiliates will receive three of the four awards offered by the student unit of the American Association o... Read More

 

Iowa State University Child Development Laboratory School earns 100% in all ten NAEYC measures

5-27-2008

The Iowa State University Child Development Laboratory School (the Lab School) is one of the first early childhood programs to earn reaccreditation under the new, more rigorous standards from the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), the nation's leading organization ... Read More

 

ISU education technology professor offers ways to plug kids into summer learning

5-27-2008

Scott McLeod, an associate professor of educational leadership and policy studies and director of the Center for the Advanced Study of Technology Leadership in Education, says that kids can keeping learning and having fun by plugging into mind-stretching technologies. McLeod offers up a "top ... Read More

 

Strohbehn helps producers, consumers keep foods healthy, safe

5-23-2008

Ames, Iowa - The growing season is upon us, and local producers are busy preparing for the months of increased production and activity. Commerce in locally-grown produce is on the rise due in part to increased interest in farmer's markets and the wide variety of seasonal fruits and vegetables avai... Read More

 

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