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11-16-2009 |
David Whaley's face cropped up in several Indonesian newspapers last week. Whaley, associate dean for teacher education, and other Iowa State University officials are exploring partnership opportunities with the Sampoerna School of Education in Jakarta, a higher education institution that offers fou... Read More |
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11-9-2009 |
Stephen Porter turned heads at the Association for the Study of Higher Education annual conference last week when he presented a paper that questions the validity of the influential National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE.) Porter, an associate professor of research and evaluation in educational... Read More |
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10-24-2009 |
"There's probably truth to the saying that you shouldn't worry yourself to death," said Peter Martin, a professor of gerontology in human development and family studies, who researches people that live 100 years or more. Centenarians have robust and resilient personalities, said Martin, wh... Read More |
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10-23-2009 |
A new study led by Marian Kohut, associate professor in kinesiology, offers one more reason for getting regular, moderate exercise. In the study, mice that regularly ran on a treadmill over 3.5 months developed less severe symptoms when infected with the flu virus, compared to those that weren't put... Read More |
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10-13-2009 |
Laura Rendón, professor and chair of educational leadership and policy studies at Iowa State University, will deliver the keynote address at a forum on social justice ath the University of New Mexico, on Oct. 22.
According a story in UNM Today, the university's newsletter for faculty and st... Read More |
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10-2-2009 |
Iowa State University President Geoffroy discussed aspects of his presidency and how he works with top university officials to anticipate what's coming, including more budget cuts,in hiskeynote address at the Research Institute for Studies in Education's second annual poster and lecture day, Thursda... Read More |
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3-2-2009 |
A new book by Laura Rendón questions conventional approaches to university teaching and challenges professors toteach more holistically. Rendón suggests that faculty accept responsibility for helping students develop not only intellectually -- but socially, emotionally, and spiritually... Read More |
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12-13-2008 |
Stephanie Burbridge, a senior in elementary education from Mount Vernon, wrote and illustrated a book for children dealing with parental divorce. Burbridge said the work draws from her own experience as a child who traveled frequently between one parent's home in Iowa City and another in St. Louis, ... Read More |
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5-29-2008 |
Anthony Pometto, a professor in food science and human nutrition, is part of a research team that is growing fungus to improve corn-to-ethanol processing. The technology can potentiallyreduce energy costs associated with corn-to-ethanol production. It may also recycle more water and improve the live... Read More |
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5-9-2008 |
President Bush congratulated Iowa's 2008 State Teacher of the Year, Andrew Mogle, in the Oval Office of the White House on Wednesday, April 30, 2008.
Mogle, a culinary arts teacher at Norwalk High School, received a degree in family and consumer sciences education and studies from Iowa State Univer... Read More |
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