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Grevstad-Nordbrock receives CEAH research grant to document U.S. Embassy in Australia

Ted Grevstad-Nordbrock, an Iowa State University assistant professor of community and regional planning, received a research grant from the ISU Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities for "The Heritage of Diplomacy," a project investigating historic preservation and documentation in the multinational/multicultural context of diplomatic buildings. His goal is to fully document the U.S. Embassy compound in Canberra, Australia, including an assessment of its history and fabric, its historical…

April 6, 2017

Cooking Sections to lead ISU's OPN Master Class on diet adaptation in changing climate conditions and present public lecture

04/05/17 AMES, Iowa — Daniel Fernández Pascual and Alon Schwabe, spatial practitioners who together are known as Cooking Sections, will teach a master class April 10-12 at Iowa State University and present a public lecture Wednesday, April 12, in Urbandale. Their presentation, “Speculation on Disappearance,” will begin at 5:30 p.m. at the William G. Murray Conference Center at Living History Farms, 11121 Hickman Rd., Urbandale. According to Fernández Pascual and Schwabe,…

April 5, 2017

Three College of Design students are among 13 ISU undergraduate researchers selected to present at national conference

April 5, 2017

Thesis exhibition at ISU Design on Main Gallery features climate change-themed comic book

04/04/17 AMES, Iowa — “Food Pirates: Food, Technology, Pirates and the Future,” a comic and thesis exhibition by Iowa State University integrated visual arts graduate student Brie Alsbury, is on display through Saturday, April 8, at the ISU Design on Main Gallery. The show features “Food Pirates,” a comic book written and illustrated by Alsbury that follows orphan Rylo Sykes, a resident of a refugee camp in Omaha, Nebraska, in 2035,…

April 4, 2017

Ji's work published in Cornell University's 'Association #8"

Iowa State University architecture Lecturer Jungwoo Ji's "Pop-up Pavilion" is among 74 projects published in Association #8, a book celebrating the work of Cornell University College of Architecture, Art and Planning students, faculty and alumni. Ji received a Master of Architecture from Cornell in 2003.

April 3, 2017

Art historian to speak about nationalism in early modern Rome April 3 at ISU

03/30/17 AMES, Iowa — Linda Nolan, a specialist in early modern Italian art and classical Roman art and archaeology, will speak Monday, April 3, at Iowa State University. Nolan will present “Was Bernini Xenophobic? Nationalism in Early Modern Rome” at 5:30 p.m. in 1352 Gilman Hall. Part of the ISU College of Design Rome Program Lecture Series, her talk is free and open to the public. About the speaker Nolan is…

March 30, 2017

Masonry Institute of Iowa unit design competition winners announced

The Masonry Institute of Iowa and King’s Material, Cedar Rapids, together with the National Concrete Masonry Association (NCMA), hosted their annual unit design competition at Iowa State University. Students in ISU architecture Lecturer Bo-Suk Hur’s ARCH 343/644: Building Science and Technology IV class participated in the competition as a class project earlier this spring. The goal of the competition is to design a new concrete masonry or hardscape unit that…

March 30, 2017

Symposium on design and entrepreneurship scheduled April 3-4 at ISU

03/29/17 AMES, Iowa — A symposium exploring the relationship between design and entrepreneurship will take place April 3-4 at the Iowa State University College of Design. “(d)innovation: Transforming Design for Entrepreneurship” will be from 9 a.m. to noon and 1:45 to 5 p.m. Monday, April 3, in the college’s Gallery 181, room 181 Design. Guest speakers will talk about the connection between design and entrepreneurship and lead discussions to…

March 29, 2017

Development geography expert to speak about BRICS' impact in Southern Africa April 10 at ISU

03/28/17 AMES, Iowa — Padraig Carmody, an associate professor of development geography at Trinity College Dublin and the editor of Geoforum, will speak about “The Geopolitics and Economics of BRICS Resource and Market Access in Southern Africa: the Zambian Case” in a lecture at Iowa State University. Carmody’s public presentation will begin at 5:30 p.m. Monday, April 10, in Kocimski Auditorium, room 0101 College of Design. He will address the impact…

March 29, 2017

Wiederin earns human resources certification

Jenn Wiederin, the Iowa State University College of Design's human resources coordinator since August 2013, has earned the Professional in Human Resources certification through the HR Certification Institute. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in administration with an emphasis in human resource management from the University of Northern Iowa. She is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management.

March 28, 2017