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1. Bioeconomy Institute director Robert Brown has been named to the Gary and Donna Hoover Chair in Mechanical Engineering. 2. Robert Anex, associate director for research for Iowa State’s Bioeconomy Institute, has been named to the Science and Technology for Sustainability Subcommittee of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Board of Scientific Counselors. 3. Surya Mallapragada is one of four Iowa State University researchers recently named an AAAS fellow by the American Association

The College of Engineering has launched Alumni E-News to provide our stakeholders with brief updates on people and happenings in the college. This electronic newsletter includes links to the College of Engineering Web site and to specific video spotlights or news releases. Alumni E-News is sent out the middle of each month to alumni and friends for whom the Iowa State University Foundation has e-mail addresses. If you have not

The College of Engineering dedicated the new Electrical and Computer Engineering Building: Phase I on October 2, 2008. The first of two phases of construction, the new $16.5 million facility provides 23,000 square feet of state-of-the-art classrooms and research and teaching laboratories furnished with the latest equipment and

Goodrich Corporation’s Sensors and Integrated Systems team has donated an icing wind tunnel to Iowa State. The tunnel will be the university’s first wind tunnel to be able to perform icing physics research and will be housed in Iowa State’s wind simulation and testing (WiST) laboratory. The WiST lab is a state-of-the-art experimental facility for conducting research, education, consulting, and outreach for applications in wind engineering, aeronautics, and industrial

Amazing as last century’s technologies were, the 21st century promises even greater wonders as engineering intersects more intimately with the processes of nature. Featured in this issue, biosciences and engineering is one of five clusters around which the college is centering faculty recruitment and many of its frontline research initiatives. In the following pages we revisit four senior researchers whose work is bearing fruit and building bridges, meet three new faces