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.
Read the Press Release and Des Moines Register Article
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." Read the Article
November 8, 2009
The Des Moines Register profiles the women nominated for the 2009 Women of Innovation Awards, through the Technology Association of Iowa. "Nine awards will be given Tuesday to Iowans who find ways to improve products and inspire others' work." Read the Article
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. Read the Article
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. More Info
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. Read the Article
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. More Info on the Competition
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.
Click here to see an LAS story on Lois Tiffany from earlier in the decade: http://www.las.iastate.edu/newnews/loistiffany.shtml
September 2, 2009
Inside Human Sciences profiles co-PI Flo Hamrick, and her work with the ADVANCE Program.
Read the Article
September 1, 2009
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences and College of Engineering awards to STEM Women Faculty and ADVANCE Participants. More Info
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. Read the Article
July 29, 2009
The inaugural class of American Chemical Society Fellows includes ADVANCE Professor Mark Gordon. Read the Article
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. Read the Article
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.
Read the Article
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.
Read the Article
Spring 2009
University and College Awards to STEM Women Faculty and ADVANCE Participants. More Info
April 3, 2009
"Faculty Survey Found Less Job Satisfaction Among Associate Professors," article courtesy of Inside Iowa State, April 3, 2009. Read the Article
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. Read the Article
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. Read the Article
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. More info
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. Watch the Video
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. Read the Article.
January 4, 2009
The Program for Women in Science and Engineering (PWSE) is once again looking for mentors for the 2008 Undergraduate Summer Internship Program. If you are an ISU faculty/staff/affiliate researcher interested in serving as a mentor, visit our Web site.
December 1, 2008
ISU ADVANCE Professor Mark Gordon is looking for cleaner, cheaper rocket fuel. Read the Article
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. Read the Article
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).
Read the Article
Fall 2008
University and College Awards to STEM Women Faculty and ADVANCE Participants. More Info
April 17, 2008
Sharon Bird, ADVANCE Co-PI and Director of Research, was given the Margaret Sloss Gender Equity Award. Read the Article
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. Read the Article
February 7, 2008
ISU Associate Professor of Anthropology Jill Pruetz has been selected as a National Geographic Emerging Explorer for 2008. Read the Article
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. Read the Article
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 & Cell Biology. More Info
Click here for a link to the article in Science
Fall 2007
University and College Awards to STEM Women Faculty and ADVANCE Participants. More Info
September 19, 2007
Article in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences newsletter on ADVANCE. Read the Article
Summer 2007
Two articles in the GDCB Alumni Newsletter: NSF program enhances opportunities for women (pg1) and A breath of fresh air (article on Jo Anne Powell-Coffman's research) (pg 7) (PDF- 13MB)
August 21, 2007
Iowa State and DMACC work together to increase engineering graduates. More Info
August 8, 2007
Diane Debinski interviewed by NPR on climate change casualties. More info
July 2007
Annual report for year one is available (PDF- 633KB) (Requires Adobe Acrobat 5 or later)
June 4, 2007
Ames Laboratory researcher, Emily Smith, is using Raman imaging to probe plant cell structure.
Read the Article
April 30, 2007
Sarah Ryan, associate professor and interim chair of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, awarded environmental fellowship from AT&T Foundation. More Info
March 26, 2007
MSE's Kristen Constant named ADVANCE professor. More Info
February 23, 2007
Creating change with ADVANCE. More Info
September 27, 2006
$3.3 million NSF grant will help advance women faculty in STEM careers. More Info
2006
ISU Receives Sloan Foundation Award for Innovative Practices in Career Flexibility. More Info
