Iowa State University researchers have mixed the real and virtual worlds to create a unique research lab called MIRAGE. The lab's props, technology and stagecraft provide full-body immersion in virtual environments.
With graduation still months away, the majority of students in the MBA program at Iowa State University have already received their first job offer.
Narcissism has long been associated with envy in the field of psychology, but an Iowa State study provides new evidence about that connection.
Access to public schools is one explanation for the educational gap between students in rich and poor countries, but a new study shows mortality and fertility rates are more significant factors.
Iowa EPSCoR is building the state's research capacity in renewable energy and energy use by hiring faculty, launching studies and building partnerships. The project is driven by a $20 million NSF grant and $2 million from the Iowa Power Fund.
Red flags are easy to recognize in the days following a tragic event like a mass shooting. That’s why a group of Iowa State researchers is working to identify those early warning signs in juvenile offenders before they turn into a pattern of criminal behavior.
Iowa State computer and electrical engineers are developing computing tools to help biologists analyze all the data produced by today's research instruments.
Iowa State University's Hui Hu is using wind tunnel and imaging tests to learn the aerodynamics that allow dragonflies and bats to get off the ground in the slow-speed, high-drag conditions of small-scale flight.
Craig Anderson, Distinguished Professor of psychology at Iowa State University, explains why a freelance photographer and other bystanders did not help to a man thrown onto the tracks of the New York City subway.
Researchers led by Sanjeevi Sivasankar of Iowa State University and the Ames Laboratory are studying how biological cells connect to each other. Problems with cell adhesion can lead to diseases, including cancers and cardiovascular problems.
Iowa State University engineers and researchers have built and are testing a bio-oil gasifier. It will allow them to combine two thermochemical technologies to produce the next generation of fuels from renewable sources such as corn stalks and wood chips.
A research team led by Iowa State University's Laura Jarboe is working to develop hungry, robust microbes that can ferment biofuels from the bio-oil produced by rapidly heating biomass such as corn stalks and sawdust.
The latest DNA sequencing technology is burying researchers in trillions of bytes of data. Iowa State's Srinivas Aluru is leading an effort to develop high performance computing tools that will help researchers analyze all that data.
Iowa State University's Alan Wanamaker studies the growth increments in clam shells to learn about past ocean conditions. He says a better understanding of the ocean's past can help researchers understand today's climate trends and changes.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has added $12 million and another three years of support to the NSF Engineering Research Center for Biorenewable Chemicals based at Iowa State University. The center's vision is to transform the chemical industry.
Krishna Rajan of Iowa State University and the Ames Laboratory is using data mining, information theory and statistical learning concepts to develop a new approach to discovering materials.
Both President Obama and his opponent in the presidential race, Mitt Romney, have been making frequent visits to Iowa. Some Iowa State University experts say it's because Iowa, and its six electoral votes, may make the difference on Election Day.
A group led by Edward Yu of Iowa State and the Ames Laboratory is studying disease resistance in tuberculosis. The group has described the structure of a regulator that controls the expression of a pump that removes toxins from the bacteria.
An Iowa State University research team is feeding fungi grown on the leftovers of ethanol production to pigs and chickens. The feed-production process also cleans water used to make ethanol, boosting the amount of water that can be recycled back into biofuels.
Sanjeevi Sivasankar of Iowa State University and the Ames Laboratory is leading a research team that has developed new microscope technology to study single biological molecules with unprecedented accuracy and precision.
Iowa State's solar car team is ready to race Hyperion, its new solar car, in this summer's 1,650-mile American Solar Challenge. The July 14-21 event will take 18 student teams and their solar race cars from New York to Minnesota.
The Wind Energy Initiative of Iowa State University's College of Engineering is building research and education programs across disciplines. The initiative's ultimate goal is to help the country produce 20 percent of its electrical energy from wind by 2030.
Astronomers using data from NASA's Kepler Mission have found a planetary odd couple 1,200 light years from Earth. The discovery is published online by Science Express. Iowa State's Steve Kawaler is part of the research team and a leader of Kepler star studies.
Iowa State University researchers are using nanoparticles originally developed by the late Victor Lin to simultaneously deliver proteins and DNA into plant cells. The technology could allow more sophisticated and targeted editing of plant genomes.
Researchers from Iowa State University and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have found three proteins involved in the accumulation of fatty acids in plants. The finding could help plant scientists boost production of biorenewable products.
Three teams of Iowa State University researchers will use grants from the Iowa Energy Center to develop biorenewable technologies. All three projects involve the thermochemical conversion of biomass to biorenewable fuels and products.
Iowa State University engineers are working with the Iowa Department of Transportation to develop and test a comprehensive system to monitor the stresses, strains and security of bridges.
Christopher Karstens, an Iowa State doctoral student, noticed storm damage far from the path a tornado took through hilly Alabama terrain. He's using Iowa State's tornado simulator to confirm rough terrain can channel a tornado's damaging winds.
Xinwei Wang, an Iowa State associate professor of mechanical engineering, is leading a study that found spider silk is very good at transferring heat. Spider silk, in fact, conducts heat as well or better than most metals.
A new study says genetic mutations in plants could make it easier to break down plant cellulose to the sugars that are fermented into biofuels. The researchers' findings are published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Iowa State University's Dionysios Aliprantis is developing several technologies that could improve the performance of electric motors and generators. And that could make a real difference in building sustainable energy systems.
In the two and a half years since Adam Bogdanove of ISU and colleagues discovered how a class of proteins find and bind specific sequences in plant genomes, researchers worldwide have moved fast to use this discovery. Now, the next step has been taken by determining the 3-D structure of a TAL effector bound to DNA. The research is now in the journals Science and Nature.
NASA's Kepler Mission has helped astronomers discover two Earth-sized planets that survived their star's red-giant expansion. The discovery is published in the Dec. 22 edition of the journal Nature.
A new Iowa State University/Gazette/KCRG poll of 333 likely Iowa Republican caucus goers finds Ron Paul on top among GOP presidential candidates with 27.5 percent, followed by Newt Gingrich with 25.3 percent.
Brian Mennecke, an Iowa State University business professor, foresees facial recognition technology creating new "marketing avatars" -- or "mavatars" -- to be used by savvy marketers in the not-too-distant future.
When Kevin Neff stands at the lectern in his cap and gown Friday, he'll speak to his fellow Iowa State grads with a new voice. For three-and-a-half years, Neff had no voice. And while some say his vocal cords were silenced by a freak of nature and cured by a fluke of healing, Neff believes it happened for a purpose.
Iowa State University engineers are using wind tunnel tests to study how hills, valleys and the placement of wind turbines affect the performance of wind farms.
College and university counseling services throughout the U.S. are seeing students with increasingly severe mental health issues. Iowa State University is offering mental health first-aid training to develop a cadre of faculty and staff first responders who can guide students in crisis using a five-step action plan.
Iowa State University's METaL virtual reality facility is designed to be a versatile, everyday research tool. It will be used to study and develop 3-D visual display technology, audio effects and force feedback.
A 'sin tax' applied to sweetened goods on store shelves is not the most efficient, effective method of lowering caloric intake from sweet food and would be more disruptive to consumers than necessary, according to Iowa State University research.
Research at Iowa State University has led to discovery of a genetic method that can increase biomass in algae by 50 to 80 percent. The breakthrough comes from turning on certain genes in algae that increase the amount of photosynthesis in the plant, which leads to more biomass.
Iowa State University researchers have established a national panel to research and develop technologies that take carbon out of the atmosphere and make money while doing it. The 33-member panel recently met for the first time.
Asking a scientist to take part in research that has little budget, less infrastructure and almost no central bureaucracy would appear a lost cause. A group that was founded in part by an Iowa State University researcher operates with almost no budget, and has grown to a substantial worldwide research force in just six years. And potential collaborators are still banging on the door to get in.
Iowa State University's Wind Energy Manufacturing Laboratory is helping engineers study and develop new, low-cost manufacturing systems that could improve the productivity of turbine blade factories.
Alex Travesset reports in the Oct. 14 issue of the journal Science that nanotechnology has entered a new era. Because of developments in nanoparticle self-assembly, designer materials with unique properties are now possible.
Iowa State University's Dietetics Internship program, already the largest in the country, will be the first in the nation to offer an international component with interns allowed the option to perform a portion of their work at the University of Ghana in that African country, beginning in January.
Iowa State University researchers helped design and build the $20 million instrument that allowed astrophysicists to discover the first very-high-energy gamma rays from a pulsar. The discovery is reported in the Oct. 7 issue of the journal Science.
The Nobel Foundation today announced Dan Shechtman of Iowa State University, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory and Israel’s Technion has won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Iowa's State Housing Trust Fund is responding well to the demand for affordable housing in the state, according to an Iowa State University study. However, during the eight years of the program's existence, roughly 70,000 more Iowans tumbled into poverty, creating an affordable housing need that is unmet - and largely unknown.
Iowa State researchers have developed technologies to efficiently produce, recover and separate sugars from the fast pyrolysis of biomass. That's a big deal because those sugars can be further processed into biofuels.
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