EAU CLAIRE, Wisconsin, Oct. 7 -- The University of Wisconsin Eau Claire Campus issued the following news: By Gary Johnson Dr. Lisa Jepsen, who has 23 years of experience as a faculty member and administrator at the University of Northern Iowa, has been named the new dean of the College of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Jepsen, who was associate dean in UNI's College of Business from August 2015 through July 2020, will join UW-Eau Claire on Feb. 1, 2024. She is presently t  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, Oct. 7 -- Drake University issued the following news release on Oct. 6, 2023: Drake University announced today a $5 million gift from Ronald "Ron" Olson, BN'63, and his wife, Jane Olson, to support the continued growth of the University's Center for Public Democracy. To honor this significant gift, Drake will officially name it The Ron and Jane Olson Center for Public Democracy. Working at the intersection of theory and practical application, The Ron and Jane Olson Center for  more

GRINNELL, Iowa, Oct. 7 -- Grinnell College issued the following news: Grinnell College is proud to have a reputation as a hub of innovative design and construction. Two prestigious awards from the Society for College and University Planning (SCUP), a merit award and an honorable mention, were recently bestowed upon the college for its outstanding work on the Kington/Christiansen outdoor gathering and learning areas and the Humanities and Social Studies Center (HSSC) building. Kington Plaza, an  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, Oct. 7 -- The Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird issued the following news release: Last week, Attorney General Brenna Bird joined 25 other states in a letter to Pornhub's parent company expressing concerns about a loophole that allows pornographers to post content exploiting children. As recently reported, an employee of the company was captured on video by an undercover journalist discussing a "loophole" that enables child exploitation. Users who upload content to the site a  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, Oct. 7 -- Gov. Kim Reynolds, R-Iowa, issued the following news release on Oct. 6, 2023: Gov. Kim Reynolds today announced her appointment of David Brooks as a district associate judge in Judicial Election District 4. Brooks, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, is an assistant public defender at the Office of the Iowa State Public Defender. He is also a Judge Advocate General for the Iowa National Guard. Brooks received an undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois and his law  more

AMES, Iowa, Oct. 7 (TNSres) -- Iowa State University's Computer Science Department issued the following news: The research work of Pavan Aduri, a professor of Computer Science at Iowa State University, along with N. V. Vinodchandran, Arnab Bhattacharyya, and Kuldeep S. Meel was invited to the CACM Research highlights and appeared in the September 2023 issue of Communications of the ACM (CACM). Communications of the ACM CACM is the flagship magazine of the Association for Computing Machinery (  more

AMES, Iowa, Oct. 7 (TNSres) -- Iowa State University's College of Engineering issued the following news: Professor Shao has been highly active in organizing international conferences in metabolic engineering and related fields and serving as an editor and a co-editor for internal journals including Federation of European Microbiological Societies (FEMS), Yeast Research, and Engineering in Life Sciences. Her research group has been collaborating with other groups overseas, including researchers   more