2009-2010 News
June 2, 2010
Cindy Haynes, associate professor in the Department of Horticulture, will receive this year’s Teacher Fellow Award from the North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture.
May 25, 2010
Mei Hong, professor in the Department of Chemistry, will receive the 2010 Founders’ Medal from the International Council on Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems.
May 10, 2010
Suzanne Hendrich, university professor, was named the Charlotte E. Roderuck Faculty Fellow in Food Science and Human Nutrition for 2010-2012. The fellowship was created in 2007 to recognize excellence in nutrition research associated with the Nutrition and Wellness Research Center. During her 40 years at Iowa State, Roderuck was instrumental in establishing the foundation for human nutrition research. Hendrich exemplifies the Roderuck legacy through her participation in national and international nutrition programs.
Spring 2010
University and College Awards to STEM Women Faculty and ADVANCE Participants.
May 3, 2010
Martin Spalding, professor and chair, Genetics, Development and Cell Biology, is working to stack multiple desirable traits in one type of algae to engineer the perfect strain for commercial biodiesel production. The project is featured in the May 2010 issue of Biodiesel Magazine.
April 27, 2010
Iowa State researchers Monica Lamm, assistant professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Theresa Windus, professor of Chemistry and Mark Gordon, Distinguished Professor and Frances M. Craig Chair in chemistry, are leading Iowa State's work to develop computational chemistry software that can be scaled up to petascale computing systems.
April 12, 2010
Kathleen Delate, Agronomy and Horticulture, has received a USDA grant to study the effects of organic farming on water quality.
April 12, 2010
Maria Salas-Fernandez, assistant professor of Agronomy, worked with a group on how to introduce more vitamin A into corn hybrids to help cultures that depend on corn as a dietary staple.
April 12, 2010
Nicola Pohl, professor of Chemistry at Iowa State University, is the 2010 recipient of the Horace S. Isbell Award from the American Chemical Society Carbohydrate Division. April 2, 2010
Lisa Schulte Moore, associate professor, Natural Resource Ecology and Management, talks about coordinating systems research to strategically manage agricultural landscapes in a new CALS Research Video.
March 22, 2010
Researchers at Iowa State's Institute for Transportation, including ADVANCE Professor Shauna Hallmark, worked with the non-profit corporation Advanced Energy for more than two years to bring two hybrid school buses to Iowa.
March 4, 2010
Rebecca Christoffel, assistant professor, has joined the Natural Resource Ecology and Management department as Extension wildlife specialist.
February 15, 2010
LAS faculty and other ISU researchers, including ADVANCE participants Martin Spalding, chair of Genetics Development and Cell Biology, and David Oliver, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, have won new grants from federal agencies awarding money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
February 4, 2010
Congratulations to Mayly Sanchez, assistant professor in the department of of Physics and Astronomy and particle physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, on receiving the Outstanding Technical Achievement Award from the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Award Corporation.
February 3, 2010
Antiviral drugs block influenza A viruses from reproducing and spreading by attaching to a site within a proton channel necessary for the virus to infect healthy cells, according to a research project led by Mei Hong, professor of Chemistry, and published in the Feb. 4 issue of the journal Nature.
January 26, 2010
Jennifer O’Donnell, assistant professor of Chemical and Geological Engineering, has been awarded $750,000 over five years as part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s new Early Career Research Program.
January 25, 2010
The Plant Sciences Institute profiles Diane Bassham, associate professor of Genetics Development and Cell Biology, and Jacqueline Shanks, Manley R. Hoppe professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering.
January 13, 2010
ACTIVEsite, Chemical & Biological Engineering's newsletter, has an article featuring CBE's role in the ISU ADVANCE Program. January 12, 2010
The Program for Women in Science and Engineering (PWSE) is once again looking for mentors for the 2010 Undergraduate Summer Internship Program.
December 17, 2009
Four Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory researchers, including ISU ADVANCE professor Mark Gordon, have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
December 14, 2009
The Dec. 11 issue of "Science" features research by ISU ADVANCE pofessor Adam Bogdanove, Plant Pathology, and a group of researchers from ISU and Kansas State University. The researchers are looking at two bacterial diseases of rice and why some types of rice are naturally resistant to the bacteria. A photo by Bogdanove and Jack Horner, Genetics, Development and Cell Biology, was chosen for the cover.
December 10, 2009
Four ADVANCE Participants (Janette Thompson, Jo Anne Powell-Coffman, Surya Mallapragada and Joseph Shinar) were selected for the 2010 Emerging Leaders Academy.
December 2, 2009
Richard LeSar, professor and chair of round one ADVANCE department Materials Science and Engineering, is the lead investigator on a grant from the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust, to purchase a high-resolution, field-emission microscope.
November 11, 2009
Congratulations to Toni Wang, associate professor in Food Science and Human Nutrition, for winning the 2009 Women of Innovation Award for Research Innovation and Leadership.
November 9, 2009
ISU ADVANCE professor Adam Bogdanove has discovered how a group of proteins from plant pathogenic bacteria interact with DNA in the plant cell, opening up the possibility for what the scientist calls a "cascade of advances."
October 19, 2009
Toni Wang, Wallapak Tavanapong, and Robin Lutz have been nominated for the 2009 Women of Innovation Awards, through the Technology Association of Iowa.
October 5, 2009
The American Physical Society has awarded the 2010 David Adler Lectureship Award to Iowa State University distinguished professor of Chemistry Patricia Thiel.
October 1, 2009 Plants and algae may be a source of green, renewable hydrocarbons that could replace the ancient, finite hydrocarbons in fossil fuels, according to a team of researchers led by Iowa State University's Jackie Shanks.
September 28, 2009
The Iowa State chapter of SEEDS (Strategies for Ecology Education, Development and Sustainability), a program of the Ecological Society of America, placed second in its "Chapter of the Year" competition. Adviser Fred Janzen, Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology, said the chapter was honored because of a dramatic increase in membership; its outreach activities which takes reptiles and amphibians to schools; and a program that links undergraduates with minority students in Iowa high schools, taking them to “Turtle Camps” for field research. He said the chapter is in its third year and was picked from chapters at more than 50 other schools.
September 8, 2009
Distinguished Professor Emeritus Lois Tiffany, 85, died Sept. 6. In her honor, a Celebration of Life Memorial, will be held Saturday, Sept. 19, at the Iowa Arboretum. Participants are asked to gather at 4 p.m. A lasagna dinner will begin at 5 p.m. (bring salad, bread or dessert to share), and a program will follow at 6:30 p.m. A botanist, Tiffany was well-known for her expertise in fungi. She was the "mushroom lady" to the public and "Dr. T" to students, colleagues and friends. She joined the ISU botany department in 1950 and stayed more than a half century, retiring in 2002.
September 2, 2009
Inside Human Sciences profiles co-PI Flo Hamrick, and her work with the ADVANCE Program.
September 1, 2009
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences and College of Engineering awards to STEM Women Faculty and ADVANCE Participants.
August 27, 2009
Pat Thiel, senior chemist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, has been named the winner of the 2010 Arthur W. Adamson Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Surface Chemistry.
July 29, 2009
The inaugural class of American Chemical Society Fellows includes ADVANCE Professor Mark Gordon.
July 27, 2009
Susan Lamont, department of Animal Science, received the Embrex Fundamental Science Award and was named a Fellow of the Poultry Science Association. The awards were presented at the association annual meeting last week in Raleigh, N.C.
July 2, 2009 Surya Mallapragada named department chair of Chemical & Biological Engineering effective August 16.
2008-2009 News
June 29, 2009
Elisabeth Lonergan, ISU ADVANCE professor of Animal Science, was awarded the 2009 AMSA Distinguished Research Award at the American Meat Science Association's Reciprocal Meat Conference, June 21-24, 2009. She was the first woman to receive the award, which recognizes members with outstanding research contributions to the meat industry.
June 29, 2009
Iowa State University Research Foundation (ISURF) has finalized a licensing agreement for a novel soy- based wax process with SoyaWax International, a Cedar Rapids company. Tong Wang, associate professor in Food Science and Human Nutrition, is the inventor of the new wax technology.
May 6, 2009
Jacqueline Vanni Shanks, professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Iowa State University, has been named the first holder of the Manley R. Hoppe Professorship in Chemical Engineering.
Spring 2009
University and College Awards to STEM Women Faculty and ADVANCE Participants.
April 3, 2009
"Faculty Survey Found Less Job Satisfaction Among Associate Professors," article courtesy of Inside Iowa State, April 3, 2009.
April 1, 2009
Nikki Pohl, associate professor of chemistry at Iowa State University, has developed a process to fabricate a custom-order, complex carbohydrate molecule in 24 hours.
March 2, 2009
The Ames Tribune attended the ISU ADVANCE Workshop "Faculty Satisfaction at Iowa State: Results of the 2008 Survey on March 2, 2009.
February 19, 2009
The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Iowa State University presented annual awards to faculty and staff at its spring semester convocation on February 16.
February 4, 2009
Iowa State anthropologist Jill Pruetz recently helped reunite a 9-month-old chimpanzee who'd been taken by hunters with her mother in Senegal.
January 21, 2009 Junior faculty of NSF-eligible organizations have only three opportunities to pply for the NSF CAREER Award, a prestigious award in support of non-tenured faculty. Malika Jeffries-EL, an assistant professor of chemistry at Iowa State University, received the NSF CAREER Award on her first attempt. .
January 4, 2009
The Program for Women in Science and Engineering (PWSE) is once again looking for mentors for the 2009 Undergraduate Summer Internship Program.
December 1, 2008
ISU ADVANCE professor Mark Gordon is looking for cleaner, cheaper rocket fuel.
November 12, 2008
Jacqueline Shanks, Andrea Spencer, and Julie Rursch were picked as finalists for the 2008 Women of Innovation Awards, through the Technology Association of Iowa.
November 6, 2008
Fred Janzen, ISU ADVANCE professor, has studied turtle nesting habits and also accumulated research going back decades in order to track the habits of the turtles to find out when they make nests and lay eggs.
October 21, 2008
Diane Rover, ISU ADVANCE Council Partner, is among several women from Iowa State University that have been nominated for the 2008 Women of Innovation Awards, through the Technology Association of Iowa.
September 27, 2008
ISU ADVANCE professor Mark Gordon is part of a group of ISU Researchers who will spend the next three years helping to develop the world's most powerful supercomputer. (Ames Tribune).
Fall 2008
University and College Awards to STEM Women Faculty and ADVANCE Participants. 2007-2008 News
April 17, 2008
Sharon Bird, ADVANCE co-PI and Director of Research, was given the Margaret Sloss Gender Equity Award.
February 11, 2008
ISU professors Eve Wurtele and Steve Herrnstadt along with associate professors Julie Dickerson and Diane Bassham have produced a video game for the life sciences.
February 7, 2008 ISU associate professor of Anthropology Jill Pruetz has been selected as a National Geographic Emerging Explorer for 2008.
February 1, 2008
Mei Hong and Sarah Cady, two Iowa State University chemists, have discovered an anti-virus drug attacks influenza A by changing the motion and structure of a proton channel necessary for the virus to infect healthy cells.
November 30, 2007
Kristen Johansen's work on the cell spindle matrix is highlighted in Science, Nov 30, 2007. Johansen is a faculty member in Genetics, Development and Cell Biology.
Fall 2007
University and College Awards to STEM Women Faculty and ADVANCE Participants.
September 19, 2007
Article in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences newsletter on ADVANCE.
August 21, 2007
Iowa State and DMACC work together to increase engineering graduates.
August 8, 2007
Diane Debinski interviewed by NPR on climate change casualties.
July 2007
Annual report for year one is available 2006-2007 News
June 4, 2007
Ames Laboratory researcher, Emily Smith, is using Raman imaging to probe plant cell structure.
April 30, 2007
Sarah Ryan, associate professor and interim chair of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, awarded environmental fellowship from AT&T Foundation.
March 26, 2007
MSE's Kristen Constant named ADVANCE professor.
February 23, 2007
Creating change with ADVANCE.
September 27, 2006 $3.3 million NSF grant will help advance women faculty in STEM careers.
2006
ISU Receives Sloan Foundation Award for Innovative Practices in Career Flexibility.