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Out with the old and in with the new: worn-out upholstery, old technology and dim lighting will no longer be top of mind to students in Agronomy Hall. As a part of the university’s 10 year classroom upgrade cycle, one of Agronomy Hall’s auditoriums, Agronomy 2050, will receive a major makeover this summer. Kathleen Baumgarn,...

Four finalists will visit campus next week to interview for the position of Senior Vice President and Provost.  The office is currently headed by Jonathan Wickert, who will officially step down from the role June 30. Wickert will remain at Iowa State and return to teaching as a professor of mechanical engineering.  According to the...

The Iowa State College of Veterinary Medicine unveiled Phase 1 of its new state-of-the-art diagnostics lab Thursday. Along with the ribbon-cutting ceremony came the groundbreaking of Phase 2. The event was attended by Gov. Kim Reynolds, Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig, U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra, President Wendy Wintersteen and others.  Funding for the $141.5 million...

The search has begun for the next senior vice president and provost, a role left open after Jonathan Wickert stepped down after 12 years, the longest in school history.  A candidate nomination form is available, with a review of materials happening immediately. The form asks members of the Iowa State community to submit a recommendation...

Thirty-two months later, the committee reviewing history, context and public comments about Carrie Chapman Catt concluded the Central Campus building bearing the suffragist’s name will keep its name.   The committee received 311 public comments regarding the name change and announced the committee’s final decision Thursday.  University naming policies, established shortly before the Catt committee was...

A noted conservator, he peeled back paintings’ hidden layers and sometimes uncovered fakes, most notably a portrait wrongly thought to be of Mary Todd Lincoln.

If you haven’t made the drive to West Bend to tour the Shrine of the Grotto of the Redemption, you’re missing out on a true treasure that people from all over the world visit just to experience each year. Often referred to as the “Eighth Wonder of the World,” the huge Grotto is actually a series of nine separate grottos, each depicting a scene in the life of Christ.  Built beginning in 1912 by Father Paul Matthias Dobberstein after recovering from a serious bout of pneumonia, the Grott...

An amazing race. the iowa caucuses. we still dont know who has won. 99% of the precincts are in. rick santorum is 18 votes ahead of mitt rom flee. 29,944 to 29,926. pretty close, i must say. lets go over to john king. john, we heard anderson say were still waiting for two precincts in iowa it report. >> thats according to the iowa republican party and its spokeman. if you go through, you see 99% of presinks reporting. lets come in here, oh, i will get it for you. pick it up here 37 scott county ...

Of a party still going on there. but certainly, they already talking about new hampshire, on to new hampshire tomorrow. >> their heads have been in new hampshire all along. i think the big surprise to them was iowa in the last couple of weeks. but lets pick up as we go. it seems to me what mitt romney needs is a big suit of armor and newt gingrich is going to play bad cop. rick santorum looks like he will play good cop. and gingrich looks for some running room. how do you see it going from here?...

Santorum? >> a little bit. but if you look the at polls in new hampshire, south carolina and florida, rick perry was only getting five, six percent. so it is an big change. and he got 10% here in iowa. >> and in terms of money, rick perry was a money draw -- >> it may be easier for him -- >> i was talking to someone from the santorum campaign today who said that they raised more money on-line in this past week than they had raised throughout the entire campaign. so clearly, you know, success wil...