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Funding bills scheduled on GSB agenda By Charles O’Brien Daily staff writer Wednesday night’s Government of the Student Body meeting will feature a presentation by Veishea General Co-Chairpersons BJ Brugman and Kayla Nielsen and Veishea Entertainment Co-Chairpersons Kevin Kirwin and Rachel Owen. GSB will sit a new graduate senator and an at-large member for the University Affairs Committee. The group will be voting on two bills, for revival funding and for establishing the firstyear funding committee. The revival funding bill is asking for funding of $6,950 to help with spring semester costs for Revival Magazine.
Photo: Huiling Wu/Iowa State Daily Professor Dan Shechtman speaks during the news conference Tuesday at the technical and administrative services facility. Shechtman talked about how his life has changed after receiving the Nobel Price in October.
Honoring Shechtman By Tiffany.Westrom @iowastatedaily.com Everyone has a bad morning once in a while. Whether it includes oversleeping, a stubbed toe, a bad hair day or a late arrival, some starts are simply better than others. Dan Shechtman, a scientist at U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory and professor of materials science and engineering, is no exception. Shechtman’s day on Oct. 5, 2011, did not start out well. His 21-year-old
Overall, this has been a moving time for Tzipora and I. Now I will go to many places in the world and give lectures.” Dan Shechtman car would not start, so he was forced to take his wife’s car to work at his job at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. But at 11:50 a.m., his day
took a turn. He received a call from Sweden and was told that he was the single candidate for the 2011 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his discovery of quasicrystals. He was told not to share the news with anyone for 30 minutes because the Nobel Foundation had not yet announced it to the world. He shared it with his wife, Tzipora Shechtman, first. “I was sitting alone in my office for my last five minutes of freedom,” Shechtman said. “I was thinking, ‘What does this mean? What will happen now?’”
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By Madeline Wilhelm Daily staff writer The Vagina Monologues is meant to celebrate women’s sexuality and strength. The actors do this in a humorous way through the liberation of the word “vagina.” It is a series of monologues based on the interviews of more than 200 women by V-Day founder Eve Ensler. V-Day is a global movement to end violence against females. Tickets for the show can be purchased at the Margaret Sloss Women’s Center. Tickets are $12 for students and $15 for non-students. The show will be at the M-Shop at 6 p.m. Thursday and Friday at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m.
The Nobel laureate had dozens of Iowa State’s leaders and media personnel laughing as he explained his Nobel Prize experiences at a news conference Tuesday morning. ISU President Steven Leath began the conference by extending the congratulations of Iowa State’s principals, faculty and students to Shechtman. The director of the Ames Laboratory, Alex King, also spoke about the honor that Shechtman has
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Xi is set to arrive in Iowa on Wednesday to attend a first-ever U.S.-China agricultural symposium on Thursday in Des Moines. Secretary of Agriculture and former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack developed this forum for Xi and other Chinese and U.S. officials to discuss agriculture, food security, food safety and other related topics.
Lauren Sullivan, graduate student in ecology, evolution and organismal biology, was awarded the TogetherGreen fellowship for her vision of community involvement in prairie restoration. TogetherGreen, a conservation initiative of The National Audubon Society and Toyota, selected 40 people nationwide to receive a $10,000 grant. “The TogetherGreen fellowship program aims to nurture conservation leadership, achieve conservation results and engage the public in conservation action,” said Elizabeth Sorrell, TogetherGreen communications associate. Through the TogetherGreen fellowship program, Sullivan has been supported in her “holistic community approach” to conservation. Sullivan and two other biology graduate students initially took a scientific approach to the restoration of cropland into prairie. In a four-acre corn plot, located west of the corner of Ontario Street and Hyland Avenue in Ames, they plan to research soil development, herbivores’
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Xi Jinping to attend agricultural event By Randi.Reeder and Katelynn.McCollough @iowastatedaily.com China’s vice president Xi Jinping, the likely successor to the country’s presidency, met with President Barack Obama at the
White House on Tuesday to help resolve differences related to business and agriculture. “In the long and difficult journey of the U.S.-Chinese relationship, this visit will be just one of the bilateral efforts to maintain the momentum and keep the direction of the most important interstate engagement of our times,” said Xiaoyuan Liu, Asia history professor.
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