Board of Regents Newsletter: November 2021 Newsletter

This year’s nine student and three faculty Fulbright winners, along with 13 deferred awardees from 2020–21, will teach and conduct research in more than a dozen countries around the world during the 2021–22 academic year. Read more from Iowa Now
Some techie teens who use IESBVI services are helping to solve accessibility challenges as part of an experiment with the University of Iowa’s (UI) engineering department. Dr. Xuan Song, an industrial engineering professor at UI, has submitted a research proposal to create a prototype 3D printer which includes a talking...
After teaching at the high school level for 13 years and receiving numerous teaching awards, Rachel Hansen has found herself back on the other side of the classroom. Not only is she a geography master’s student at the University of Northern Iowa, but she is about to be the geography...
America’s Small Business Development Center (SBDC) Iowa, which is located in Iowa State University’s Research Park and part of the university’s Office of Economic Development and Industry Relations, responded to business owners’ needs by developing marketing guides and conducting both in-person and virtual trainings on digital marketing and e-commerce Read...
Recent University of Iowa graduates Andrew Carton and Ryan Helland grew up in small communities in Iowa never dreaming they’d be involved in space research. But through their academic experiences at Iowa, they both secured jobs with a landmark NASA mission. Read more from Iowa Now
Iowa State University and Alliant Energy will collaborate on a solar farm to be established on university land south of Ames. The Board of Regents approved a request from Iowa State to proceed with the development of the solar farm and to enter into a lease agreement with Alliant Energy....