GRINNELL, Iowa, Jan. 25 -- Grinnell College issued the following news: Michael Lawrence is the director of Grinnell's business and finance community at the Center for Careers, Life, and Service. He delivered a TED Talk, "The Best Kept Secret to a Successful Career," at the University of Delaware. In the early days of his career, Grinnell staff member Michael Lawrence would watch videos of people delivering passionate and inspirational talks, connected by the notion of "ideas worth spreading."   more

POMONA, California, Jan. 24 -- California State Polytechnic University-Pomona issued the following news: Thirteen political science students and two professors traveled in January to Des Moines, where they spent seven days participating and shadowing Republican presidential nominee hopefuls in advance of the state's unique caucus process. Iowa Republican nominating caucuses took place on Jan. 15, in which former President Donald Trump won with 51% of the votes. For more than half a century, th  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, Jan. 26 -- Grand View University issued the following news: Campus Ministry hosted the fifth annual Moses Project Retreat for rural pastors January 8-10. Over twenty rural pastors from 10 different midwestern states traveled to Grand View for three days of teaching, worship, play, and laughter. The retreat began with stations of fun and included daily mystery gifts, music and worship, professional development provided by Kent Schornack, Grand View's former Director of Leaders  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, Jan. 25 (TNSres) -- Grand View University issued the following news: Dr. Josh Woods co-chaired the national Coast-to-Coast psychology teaching conference held on January 19. This acclaimed conference featured presentations from psychology influencers such as Jean Twenge and June Gruber. Coast-to-Coast aims to increase affordability and accessibility by bringing the best teachers in psychology from all around the country (and beyond) into a single virtual environment. This half  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, Jan. 25 -- Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig issued the following news on Jan. 24, 2024: Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig presented the Wergin Good Farm Neighbor Award to the Schmidt Family of Hancock County today during a ceremony at the Iowa Pork Congress in Des Moines. Schmidt Family Farms, which was designated as a Century Farm in 2011, is owned and operated by brothers Jamie and his wife Beth Schmidt and Lonnie and his wife Christine Schmidt of rural Garner.  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, Jan. 25 -- Gov. Kim Reynolds, R-Iowa, issued the following news release on Jan. 24, 2024: Today, Governor Kim Reynolds released the following three bills to House and Senate leadership: Foreign Ownership of Land: Building on Iowa's already strong laws by enhancing registration and reporting requirements with the Secretary of State's office, enhancing enforcement action through the Attorney General's Office, and increasing penalties for nefarious actors. "As I traveled across  more

AMES, Iowa, Jan. 25 -- Iowa State University's College of Engineering issued the following news: The European Academy of Sciences and Arts recently elected Valery Levitas of Iowa State University to membership in its Technical and Environmental Sciences division. Levitas, an Iowa State Anson Marston Distinguished Professor in Engineering and the Murray Harpole Chair in Engineering, is a member of the aerospace engineering department with a partial appointment in mechanical engineering. His res  more

AMES, Iowa, Jan. 25 -- Iowa State University's College of Engineering issued the following news: By Lani McKinney Danial Davarnia, assistant professor of industrial and manufacturing systems engineering, has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award for research of efficient scalable methods for solving large-scale network optimization problems. This is Davarnia's second early career award in two years. He received a Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award from the Air Force Of  more

AMES, Iowa, Jan. 26 -- Iowa State University's College of Engineering issued the following news: By Lani McKinney Ethan Secor, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for research on additive manufacturing technologies for electronic materials. The CAREER Award is the NSF's most prestigious honor to support junior faculty. Secor's CAREER project is "Graded and Reliable Aerosol Deposition for Electronics (GRADE): Understanding Mul  more

AMES, Iowa, Jan. 24 (TNSres) -- Iowa State University issued the following news release: Over the last 20 years, researchers in biology and medicine have created Boolean network models to simulate complex systems and find solutions, including new treatments for colorectal cancer. "Boolean network models operate under the assumption that each gene in a regulatory network can have one of two states: on or off," says Claus Kadelka, a systems biologist and associate professor of mathematics at Iow  more

AMES, Iowa, Jan. 26 (TNSres) -- Iowa State University issued the following news release: The offices on the perimeter of the third floor of Bessey Hall on the Iowa State University campus have windows. A complex of four adjacent interior rooms across the hallway from those offices is a window, albeit a figurative one. That's where you can find the Ada Hayden Herbarium, a collection of preserved plant, fungal and algal specimens established in the university's earliest days and built in part by  more

CALMAR, Iowa, Jan. 25 -- Northeast Iowa Community College issued the following news: The Northeast Iowa Community College Engineering Technology program is helping students secure their futures in the workforce. The Northeast Iowa Community College Engineering Technology program is helping students secure their futures in the workforce; three working students are a great example of that outcome as they begin their careers before transferring to the University of Northern Iowa (UNI) for Automat  more

ORANGE CITY, Iowa, Jan. 25 -- Northwestern College issued the following news: Northwestern College senior Jack MacGregor, a theatre major from Denison, Iowa, received national recognition at the Region Five Kennedy Center College Theatre Festival (KCACTF), which was held in Des Moines Jan. 16-21. MacGregor won Region Five's top scenic design award for his work on Northwestern's production of "Silent Sky." As a national winner, he earned an all-expense-paid trip to Washington, D.C., where he wi  more

ORANGE CITY, Iowa, Jan. 25 -- Northwestern College issued the following news: For the fifth year in a row, Northwestern College has set a spring enrollment record. This year's number is 1,603, up from 1,584 last spring. This semester a record 639 students are studying in Northwestern's Graduate & Professional Studies (GPS) division, including online master's degree programs in education and counseling, online degree-completion programs in early childhood and nursing, and an on-site master's de  more