MY REPORTING
All articles displayed here are from my time as an academic reporter for the Iowa State Daily during the 2021-2022 academic year.
IOWA STATE BLOOD STEM CELL RESEARCH MAY HELP TREAT LEUKEMIA
April 18, 2022
Iowa State researchers seeking to understand how blood stem cells are formed hope their research will help treat blood diseases such as leukemia and anemia.
Raquel Espin Palazon, an assistant professor of genetics, development and cell biology, is the principal investigator for the research team comprised of four other Iowa State personnel and one researcher from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
IOWA STATE RESEARCHERS TAKE TO ZERO GRAVITY
March 3, 2022
The Iowa State NINJAS team tested their novel 3D printing process in zero gravity.
The NINJAS team, an acronym for No-Gravity Ink Jet Printing for Aeronautics and Space, is a research team from the College of Engineering who have developed a new method for 3D printing that works in zero-gravity environments.
The team developed their process at ISU’s Flexible Electronics and Additive Printing Laboratory located in the Black Engineering Building on campus. The idea came in response to needs presented by long-term space exploration, especially missions done by NASA, which has partnered with the NINJAS team.
LECTURE SERIES EXPOSES STUDENTS TO A POSITIVE VIEW OF ENVIRONMENTALISM
February 21, 2022
Artist Chris Jordan has spent more than 20 years exploring the impacts of mass consumption, but he has changed his message from one of despair to one of love.
A guest speaker of the Iowa State Lecture Series, Jordan shared his career and his new perspective on environmentalism with Iowa State students in a lecture Monday via Webex.
IOWA STATE HONORS STUDENTS EXPERIENCE DISASTER SIMULATION
November 28, 2021
On Oct. 27, Iowa State honors students participated in a simulated tornado disaster situation at 31 Frederiksen Court. Those who participated were students in the honors seminar, “You Are Your Own First Responder.”
“You Are Your Own First Responder” is taught by Clayton Oliver, Iowa State’s emergency manager. The class is built around Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) training.
“[CERT] is a federal curriculum that’s administered at the local level… It’s basically training for individual citizens to handle the gap in a major disaster between when the disaster first happens and when professional responders get there,” Oliver said. “I see a lot of value in it. It really bridges the gap between standing around and going ‘I don’t know what to do’ and professionals, firefighters, police, EMS, rolling up.”
BOARD OF REGENTS APPROVES REQUEST TO BEGIN PLANNING A SOLAR FARM SOUTH OF CAMPUS
November 15, 2021
The Iowa Board of Regents approved Iowa State’s request to begin planning to develop and build a solar farm on university property in a partnership with Alliant Energy.
“What the regents really approved … our request to proceed with planning for this solar farm, to work together with Alliant Energy and continue to make plans to make it a reality,” said Brian Meyer, the associate director of strategic communications at Iowa State.
The proposed solar farm location is on university land south of campus that is managed by the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and its Department of Animal Science. The farm will have an output maximum capacity of 900-kilowatts, which equals enough energy to power 230 homes annually. The solar farm will help power nearby teaching and research facilities.
IOWA STATE HOSTS NOBEL LAUREATE DR. DAN SHECHTMAN FOR 3 WEEKS
September 29, 2021
Iowa State hosts Nobel Laureate Dan Shechtman for a three week visit from September 24 to October 14, 2021.
Shechtman studied and earned his PhD in materials from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology in 1972 and completed his post doctorate in Dayton, Ohio at the Wright-Patterson Airforce Base. He went on to teach at Technion and worked with the National Bureau of Standards, now the National Institute of Standards and Technology, during sabbatical Technion. He joined the Iowa State University’s faculty in 2004.
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