A $5 million gift will establish the Jamie and Ellen Pollard Endowed Director of Athletics. The permanently endowed leadership position honors the Pollards’ impact on Cyclone Athletics and will ...

AMES, Iowa – You may not remember it, but odds are you took a few tumbles during your toddler era. You weren’t alone. Falling, after all, is a natural consequence of learning to crawl, walk, climb and ...

AMES, IA — Last month, the American Psychological Association and the U.S. Surgeon General both issued health advisories. Their concerns and recommendations for teens, parents and policymakers ...

AMES, Iowa – It all started about 12 years ago when a high school teacher visiting Iowa State University for a summer program asked to help with a research project. Well, Iowa State engineers Eric ...

AMES, IA – Through CRISPR and other gene-editing technologies, researchers and developers are poised to bring dozens – if not hundreds – of new products to grocery stores: mushrooms with longer shelf ...

The 2026 Innovation at Work series captures how the entrepreneurial spirit has spread across campus and the state helping launch new startups, grow small businesses and develop a future workforce with ...

Injecting bio-oil made from corn stalks and forest debris into the deep shafts of abandoned crude oil wells could be a viable form of carbon sequestration, a new Iowa State University study found.

AMES, IA – In his new book, Matt DeLisi, a world-renowned criminologist at Iowa State University, lays out evidence that Ted Bundy’s criminal career was far lengthier and deadlier than the official ...

Iowa State engineers, left to right, Connor Thorpe and Shan Jiang helped invent the "Flow Guiding Barrel," which improves gene gun performance for the genetic modification of plants. Jiang is holding ...

AMES, Iowa – Wind turbine blades spinning through cold, wet conditions can collect ice nearly a foot thick on the yard-wide tips of their blades. “But we always have questions about whether what we do ...

A disc tiller in a post-harvest fall field at a Mississippi State University research farm. Photo courtesy of Zach Simpson. A new database built by Iowa State University researchers aims to improve ...

Ames, Iowa – In a message sent today to the campus community, Iowa State University President Wendy Wintersteen announced her plans to retire in January 2026. Wintersteen became the first woman and ...