Focus: Hidden - Iowa

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The football programs at the University of Georgia and Iowa State University don’t share a lot in common. They’ve never played each other in the 130 years since they each started formal football programs in 1892. Their campuses in Athens, Georgia, and Ames, Iowa, are separated by 800 miles. They don’t even compete in the same recruiting pool for players. Yet in 1895, Georgia and what was then called Iowa Agricultural College and Model Farm shared the same first-time head football coach – Glenn Scobey “Pop” Warner.

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This summer, Iowa State University students worked on projects addressing local and state government challenges across Iowa, including employment for people with disabilities, analyzing local housing needs, wholesale local food price benchmarking and more.

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ISU faculty, seven state departments and Head Start programs in Iowa created I2D2, a highly-secure, cross-program data-sharing system, to better serve young children and their families. The collaboration has produced several success stories and recently garnered national attention as a model that can benefit other states and municipalities.

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Iowa State University landscape architecture students are involved in what could one day be the longest wildlife bridge in the world: a proposed multi-use bison crossing and public viewing area over the Mississippi River.

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Iowa State University veterinarians are sleuthing out all possible avenues that could have contributed to the spread of a bacterial strain among central Iowa pork production facilities. The veterinarians are sequencing the genome of the bacteria, called Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae, and developing protocols to contain it.

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Rather than nursing homes being the default living option as people age, an Iowa State University researcher is looking for ways to improve homes so that people can more easily “age in place.”

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An invasive species of mosquito has established itself in three Iowa counties, according to data from Iowa State University entomologists. The species is capable of transmitting disease, but ISU experts said the species’ arrival is no cause for alarm.

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The Student Innovation Center’s Innovation Fellows Program and the Office of Admissions sought new ways to connect with prospective international students. They partnered on a new recruitment program, which engages international students in innovation education before they even step foot on campus. In December, the Innovation Fellows-in-Training program traveled to Dubai.

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The Iowa Economic Development Authority awarded a $1.4 million Strategic Infrastructure Program grant to ISU's College of Design’s 3D Affordable Innovative Technologies Housing Project. The ISU team will use the funding to find faster, cheaper solutions to meet the demand for affordable housing with 3D-printed homes.

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The Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities recognized ISU’s ongoing efforts to support small businesses and innovators across Iowa with its 2021 Innovation and Economic Prosperity Place award.

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Recently published survey data reveal how the pandemic has affected Iowa’s rural communities differently. The survey, led by an Iowa State University rural sociologist, asked thousands of Iowans to gauge how the pandemic has impacted their physical and mental health.

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John Smith '71 & honorary aluma Dyan Smith have established a fund for Cornell College's new Ingenuity curriculum, which prepares students for life after Cornell by giving them experiences outside the classroom.