VISIONS Magazine: Fall 2016 Issue

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Fall 2016

The evolution of a state

A look at three billion years of Iowa history

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Greetings from Lake LaVerne

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25 years of Science Bound

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Matt Campbell: Making the right play

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by Carole Gieseke

CGIESEKE@IASTATE.EDU

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“It’s one thing to read about these things in a book, another to talk to someone who’s an expert… and way better to actually experience the geological and anthropological history of this place we call Iowa.”

JIM HEEMSTRA

he cover feature for this issue started out with one big question: “What was Iowa like a million years ago?”

I didn’t have the answer. And when I asked the question to people I knew, they didn’t have the answer, either.

But I knew for sure if I asked the question to the right Iowa State faculty and alumni, they’d know. They’d know what the land looked like, which plants and animals were around, what the climate was like. They’d know when the first people came. All I knew was this: Iowa’s history was much more than “the little house on the prairie.”

As I progressed through my research, I found alumni and folks on campus in the fields of geology, anthropology, and history who could not only explain what Iowa was like a million years ago but actually took me back billions of years – back to the Precambrian – to the actual formation of the upper Midwest.

They walked me through what’s happened since that time, from when Iowa was covered in a warm, shallow sea … to millions of years later when it was covered by a series of ice sheets … to the relatively recent past when our human ancestors arrived.

I will admit, I never took Earth science or anthropology in high school. Or college. So much of this was news to me.

It’s one thing to read about these things in a book, another to talk to someone who’s an expert on the subjects, and way better to actually experience the geological and anthropological history of this place we call Iowa.

We were fortunate that several of our story sources were willing to travel with us to a few of Iowa’s most significant locations. We spent a full day

traveling up to the far northwest tip of Iowa (if you go any further you’re in South Dakota) with alumnus and professor Jane Dawson (’83 geology, MS ’86), a senior lecturer in geological and atmospheric sciences, to see the only surface traces of the Precambrian visible in the state: Sioux Quartzite. It was like a trip back in time.

We stayed a bit closer to home on our field trips with Doug Jones (’89 anthropology), an archaeologist in Iowa’s State Historic Preservation Office, to visit the Woodland culture mounds in Yellow Banks Park, and with Matt Hill, ISU associate professor of anthropology, to see the sandstone bluffs of Ledges State Park, but those trips were no less engaging.

It turns out, history and geology is all around us.

You can dig around and find marine fossils at Fossil and Prairie Park in Floyd County. There are burial mounds and other remnants of a culture that was active for 8,500 years in northwest Iowa, in a strikingly beautiful and quiet place called Blood Run. The ethereal Effigy Mounds, in

the northeast part of the state, are one of the few places in all of Iowa watched over by the National Park Service.

Evidence of Iowa’s glaciers is, quite literally, everywhere. Our land looks like it does because of the glaciers; our natural lakes were formed by glaciers; our rivers were produced by the glaciers. The reason our soil is so fertile? I’ll give you one guess.

Since talking to Neal Iverson (’83 geology), a professor of geological and atmospheric sciences, as well as other researchers about Iowa’s glacial past, I now look at the landforms in a different way. The rolling terrain outside the Des Moines Lobe has never looked more beautiful to me. I recently took a weekend trip to drive the Glacial Trail Scenic Byway in northwest Iowa and to make a return visit to the Loess Hills of western Iowa. Everything looked more magical than it did before.

I guess I have a newfound appreciation of what it took to create the beauty. 

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The limestone bluffs of northeast Iowa are just one of the unique landforms created over millions of years in the state.

PHOTO BY JIM HEEMSTRA

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On the cover: At 1.7 billion years old, Sioux Quartzite is the oldest exposed rock in the state, found in Gitchie Manitou State Preserve at the tip of northwest Iowa. PHOTO BY JIM HEEMSTRA

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Three billion years

Greetings from Lake LaVerne Science Bound: Celebrating 25 years 2016 Honors & Awards Hands-on history

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stories in this issue – or about other topics of interest to VISIONS readers. Email your letters to: CGIESEKE@IASTATE.EDU. OFFICERS Melanie J. Reichenberger** Chair ’00 Indust. Engr.

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Kathy A. (Sullivan) Peterson** ’95 Speech Communication Aurelia, Iowa Trent L. Preszler** ’98 Interdisc. Studies Cutchogue, N.Y.

Joan Piscitello** University Treasurer ’98 MBA Ex-officio/voting West Des Moines, Iowa

Darryl Vincent Samuels** ’88 Pol. Sci., MA ’90 Comm. & Reg. Plan. / Pol Sci. Pearland, Texas

Jeffery W. Johnson** Talbot Endowed President & CEO PhD ’14 Education Ex-officio/non-voting Ames, Iowa

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West Des Moines, Iowa Kenneth R. Bonus** ’85 Const. Engr.

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Lawrence Cunningham** ’02 Liberal Studies Ames, Iowa

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Kate Gregory Senior Vice President for University Services Office of the President Representative Ames, Iowa

First the good stuff. I am happy to share that my success in life is at least partially because of the education I received from Iowa State.

I enjoy the getting VISIONS, and it seems to have gotten better since Ms. Gieseke became editor. I (although infrequently) am able to enjoy Iowa State’s success in the sports field.

I hasten to point out the infrequency is because of my location away from Iowa.

I realize I have not been an adoring alumnus, being that I do not participate in contributing to funds when they have been solicited. That is because of my increasing disappointment in the overall institution. Part of that is because I am over 80 and don’t necessarily agree with how the times are changing.

I have decided to list the three major disappointments. Only one is directly attributable to VISIONS. However, it was the trigger to putting my disappointment in writing. I suspect it is because I will feel better having vented.

The first was when, for reasons that, in retrospect, were probably reasonable, SOV [Stars Over VEISHEA] was changed from a student-written, produced, and staged to reproducing a previously successful show. It seemed to me to be a unique and outstanding statement about the student population. It is

Kim McDonough** ’02 Jlsm. & Mass Comm., MS ’04 College Representative Ames, Iowa

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Duane M. Fisher** ’73 Ag. Ed., MS ’80 Mt. Auburn, Iowa Jeffrey Grayer** ’05 Liberal Studies Grand Blanc, Mich.

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As a fraternity brother of Warren Madden (1958-61), I enjoyed reading about Warren and all the things he did for ISU. Little did I know how involved he would be over the years.

Congratulations, Warren, for the 50 years of service.

Ryan M. York** ’95 Marketing, MBA ’03 Urbandale, Iowa

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Phyllis M. Fevold** Non-alumni Representative Ames, Iowa Erik Olson*** Senior, Marketing Student Alumni Leadership Council Representative Golden Valley, Minn.

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probably an ego thing because while I was a student I worked in SOV and at one time was a co-chair and writer of that year’s show.

The second, and biggest, disappointment was when for reasons not understandable VEISHEA itself was canceled. That is apparently to be permanent. It is a very sad commentary on either the student population or the administration, or both, that it happened.

VEISHEA was a heritage that Iowa State should have been proud of.

The last disappointment is attributable to VISIONS. It is most definitely an ego-generated disappointment. Only recently have I noted that you have a section that points out that certain alumni have published books. I have no idea how you gather the lists. However, I suspect that there is a certain amount of selfwhistle blowing required. I am not a whistle blower. I leave that to my publishers and on occasion when one of my consulting clients might benefit from the knowledge. You might ask, “What knowledge?” Because your publication does not seem to know that I have three technical books in publication. Two of them are reasonably successful for technical books and have been generating sales (however small) for years. Obviously that technical knowledge comes from my education and subsequent experience, so is partially the result of my affiliation with Iowa State.

I thank you for your indulgence.

James Phillip Ellenberger**

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“As president, I do not and will not endorse any candidate, but I will accept any opportunity to discuss higher-education policy, promote Iowa State University, and advance our mission of providing an affordable, accessible, high-quality education. I welcome the opportunity to discuss these priorities with members of any political party.” *Annual member, **Life member Iowa State University values communication with alumni and other audiences, and VISIONS welcomes letters from readers about topics in the magazine. Letters must be signed and include address and daytime phone number. Letters chosen for publication may be edited for length and clarity. The editor may decide to publish a representative sample of letters on a subject or limit the number of issues devoted to a particular topic. While universities are places of open discussion, letters deemed potentially libelous or that malign a person or group will not be published.

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A voice for the future

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etrina Jackson loves history and artifacts. She loves exploring Iowa State University Library treasures like Margaret Stanton’s death mask and a St. Thomas Aquinas book that dates to 1475. She likes seeing and touching scrapbooks and maps that connect her to the past, but more than anything she says she loves her new job as head of ISU Library’s Special Collections and University Archives because she is, at her core, a storyteller – committed to preserving a many-storied history of Iowa State and the state of Iowa.

A former community college English professor whose relatively recent career change was inspired by a library book she found called Alternative Careers for Librarians, Jackson (A)(MA ’94 English) says she has found a happy home in the world of university libraries.

“There’s a quote on the side of our building from President Parks about the heart of an excellent university being an excellent library,” Jackson says. “I really believe that. Even in this age of the Internet I believe it’s true. I feel that when you’re an advocate for the library, you’re an advocate for everyone. A place like Iowa State has so many stories that are aching to be told. We need to balance access with the need to be a good steward and making material available for generations to come.”

Jackson says her passion for advocacy and outreach inspired her to return to the place where she earned her first master’s degree and work alongside library dean Beth McNeil (A), whom Jackson describes as a “leader who gets it.”

“It’s a very exciting full-circle moment,” she says, “to walk the campus again after being away for so long – to notice the beauty of the campus and understand it much more deeply.”

After a few months on the job, Jackson is already clear about many of the

directions she’d like to go. She wants to ensure that Iowa State is able to navigate the still-murky waters of digital archiving – a task that Jackson says is critical for preservation and accountability reasons, but which the archiving profession is still striving to get its arms around.

She wants to implement an Iowa State history course, which she believes would strengthen the institution’s connection with students and alumni.

“To see how the university wanted to empower the state and farmers and how its founding fits in the Morrill Act – it’s a powerful history,” she says. “For students to actually be able to come in and see the

founding documents of this university, it creates a strong link. When people feel grounded in something, that’s a good thing. You have more of a sense of identity that’s real.”

And thirdly, Jackson speaks passionately about improving Iowa State’s historical records as they relate to the student experience.

“Student history is not usually as accessible because [student records] aren’t part of the retention schedule,” Jackson says, “but students are the lifeblood of the university. And there are many, many voices – and you don’t always get the voices of students who

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New ISU head of Special Collections and University Archives Petrina Jackson came to Iowa State this summer from the University of Virginia.

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Pages for the ages

participated, particularly students who are underrepresented like students of color or LGBTQ students. You want people to speak for themselves in their own records – not through people talking for them or about them.”

Jackson encourages alumni and students who have old letters, diaries, and organization files to consider donating them to the university archives.

“When historians are writing books and articles related to the history of the university,” she says, “then they can be included.”

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From 1893 to 1994, the Bomb annually chronicled a year in the life at Iowa State University. And now, thanks to a six-year ISU Library staff effort spearheaded by the digital initiatives unit, all 45,000 pages of ISU’s provocatively titled yearbook are available online for public perusal.

Kim Anderson, the university’s current digital initiatives archivist, says yearbooks are amazing historical records that deserve the utmost priority when it comes to preserving history; the project was well worth the six years of labor involved in bringing it to fruition.

“There are few things more quintessential to most alumni when they think of campus history,” Anderson said. “Far more than just a record of class pictures, yearbooks document the life of the campus from the perspective of students themselves. They document reactions to major world events and pop culture. The 1991 Bomb documented the reunification of Germany, for example.”

The archive is still being improved, and enhancements of search functionality are among the top items, Anderson says, on the “to-do” list. But as it currently stands, the archive allows users to download PDFs of all issues, or flip through online books.

“In digitizing the Bomb,” Anderson

Prefer paper?

A full collection of yearbooks is available in the Mente/Boyd Reception area on the third floor of the ISU Alumni Center, as well as in the Special Collections reading room on the fourth floor of Parks Library. The public is welcome and encouraged to browse either collection during regular business hours.

said, “we hope we’ve made it easier for alumni to reminisce, family members to find their ancestors, the campus to find historic points of pride, and for the general public to enjoy learning about past students’ hopes, struggles, and aspirations.”

The Bomb – which was created, according to the 1895 volume, to explode and destroy “common enemies to the best interests of the college in the form of unpardonable eccentricities, superfluous idiosyncrasies, and antiquated habits and customs that are apparently difficult to slough off,” struggled with funding issues beginning in 1972, and by 1995 had accumulated a $90,000 budget deficit that forced university administrators to shut the operation down until a sustainable plan could be formulated. Such a plan was never created, and thus there have been no editions of the yearbook produced since 1994.

Browse the digital archive for yourself online at http://digitalcollections.lib. iastate.edu/bombs.

Do you still have your old yearbooks?

While the ISU Alumni Center memorabilia collection and ISU Library Special Collections are always on the lookout for donations of unique Iowa State artifacts, books, and papers, one thing that is no longer needed in either location is old copies of the Bomb – at least for now. Thanks for thinking of us, however!

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Iowa State women’s shot putter Christina Hillman (’16 psych & child, adult and family services) is one of two Big 12 athletes who have been nominated by the league office for “2016 NCAA Woman of the Year.”

A 2016 Wallace E. Barron All-University Senior Award recipient who has been honored as an academic All-American and as the 2016 Academic All-American of the year for track and field, Hillman has been as active in the community as she has been successful on the field.

The 2016 NCAA Woman of the Year will be announced Oct. 16 at a special ceremony in Indianapolis, Ind.

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Hillman nominated for NCAA WOMAN OF THE YEAR

Trachsel named head softball coach Jamie Trachsel, who was instrumental in building a championship program at North Dakota State during her 14-year coaching tenure – including six years as co-head coach – has been hired as Iowa State’s head softball coach. Trachsel replaces Stacy Gemeinhardt-Cesler, who was dismissed in May after the Cyclones recorded just one conference win during the 2016 season. A Duluth, Minn., native and St. Cloud State alumna, Trachsel says Iowa State was the perfect fit for her to take the next step in her coaching career.

“This is a tremendous opportunity for me,” she said.

“I was impressed with every aspect of Iowa State University, including its campus, the athletic facilities, the support from the community, the staff, and especially the leadership. I am excited about the resources and facilities here at Iowa State and look forward to the challenges that come with competing in a great conference.”

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Jamie Trachsel

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cool things you should know and share about ISU

1: Iowa State is a leader in economic development: Iowa State’s long-standing commitment to economic engagement has earned it national recognition from the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities as an “Innovation and Economic Prosperity University.” ISU is one of 54 institutions that have earned the distinction since 2013, and the first in Iowa to do so.

2: Iowa State is the place for parents: BestColleges.com recently ranked Iowa State as the 15th-best college or university in the U.S. for supporting students with children.

4: Iowa State is going for a RIDE:

ISU students are the beneficiaries of a $2 million National Science Foundation grant that will transform the university’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Department into one focused on social, professional, and ethical innovation as part of a new program called “Reinventing the Instructional and Departmental Enterprise (RIDE).”

5: Iowa State is still in fashion:

CollegeStart.org recently rated Iowa State No. 2 on its list of “best value fashion schools for 2016-2017.” ISU ranked only behind the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City.

3: Iowa State is in the weeds:

ISU’s student Weed Science Team placed first in the regional competition held at Purdue University this summer, besting 15 other undergraduate team competitors.

Leath fills two top university posts

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SU President Steven Leath (L) has named retired Rear Admiral Kate Gregory to the newly-created position of senior vice president for university services and attorney Michael Norton as university counsel. Both began work on campus July 11.

Gregory comes to ISU from the board of directors of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill. She previously spent three years as chief of civil Kate Gregory engineers and commander of the Naval Facilities Engineering Command in Washington, D.C. A 1982 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis who also holds master’s degrees from the University of Southern California (1984) and George Washington University (1991), Gregory now oversees seven campus units: VISIONS WWW.ISUALUM.ORG FALL 2016 2016

facilities planning and management, business services, environmental health and safety, public safety, Reiman Gardens, University Museums, and WOI radio group. Her new position at ISU was created in the wake of Warren Madden’s (L)(’61 indus engr) May retirement.

Norton comes to Ames from the international law firm Husch Blackwell in Kansas City, where he was a leader in the firm’s higher education practice group.

A 1992 graduate of the University of Utah who Michael Norton went on to earn his doctor of law degree from Drake University in 1995, Norton is an expert in Title IX compliance, employment law, data protection, policy development, and training and will serve as the university’s primary legal adviser. He succeeds Paul Tanaka, who retired earlier this year.

Remembering George Jackson George Jackson, who served in many roles during his long tenure at Iowa State University, including assistant dean of the Graduate College and president of the Ames Chapter of the NAACP, died July 3 in Coral Springs, Fla. He was 75. His family has established a memorial fund with the ISU Foundation to honor him. Contact the Foundation at (866) 419-6768 if you are interested in making a gift to this fund.

A memorial will also be held on campus this fall.

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BILLI Before the prairie, before the pioneers, before the presentday state of Iowa even existed, what exactly happened here?

A look at deep time in the heartland.

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Iowa’s Geologic Time Scale

PRECAMBRIAN

PALEOZOIC ERA

MESOZOIC ERA

CENOZOIC ERA

About 4.54 billion years ago, when Earth was formed, to 541 million years ago

About 541 million years ago to 252 million years ago

About 252 million years ago to 66 million years ago

About 66 million years ago to today

• The Precambrian comprises about 88% of Earth’s history • Iowa’s geologic history began approximately 3 billion years ago with igneous and metamorphic rocks • Between approximately 1.9 and 1.6 billion years ago, multiple collisions added new crustal material and generated mountain and volcanic belts in what is now the upper Midwest and Iowa • The northwest corner of Iowa is the only area of the state where traces of the Precambrian are visible at the surface (Sioux Quartzite, found at Gitchie Manitou State Preserve, deposited as sandstone 1.7 billion years ago) • 1.1 billion years ago, the Midcontinent Rift System nearly tore apart North America and Iowa, leaving behind a 40-mile-wide fault-bounded valley filled with volcanic rocks and sediment

Cambrian Period (541 million years ago to 485 million years ago) • Iowa’s Cambrian record is dominated by sandy near-shore transition environments • During the late Cambrian, the Jordan Sandstone was deposited in shallow seas and is now an important aquifer in Iowa

Triassic (252 million years ago to 201 million years ago) • No rocks of this period are preserved in Iowa

Paleogene & Neogene Periods (66 million years ago to 2.6 million years ago) • Assorted sand and alluvial deposits can be found in Iowa from this period

Ordovician Period (485 million years ago to 444 million years ago) • Carbonite sediments (now limestone and dolomite) were deposited in warm, equatorial seas during the Middle and Late Ordovician Silurian Period (444 million years ago to 419 million years ago) • Iowa was a coastal area or completely submerged during much of the Silurian • Silurian seas covering Iowa left distinguishable landmarks (examples include Backbone and Maquoketa Caves State Parks and the well-known limestone building stone quarried in Stone City)

Jurassic (201 million years ago to 145 million years ago) • An arid climate promoted evaporation of gypsum from a restricted basin in what is now Fort Dodge Cretaceous (145 million years ago to 66 million years ago) • 74 million years ago an asteroid hit the Earth in what is now part of Pocahontas, Humboldt, Calhoun, and Webster Counties, causing debris to fly as far away as Nebraska and South Dakota and creating the Manson Impact Structure • The Western Interior Seaway reached as far east as Iowa and left marine deposits in western Iowa

Quaternary Period (2.6 million years ago to today) Pleistocene Epoch (2.6 million years ago to 11,700 years ago) • Periodic ice ages during this time covered much of Iowa with glaciers • Mammoths, mastodons, ancestors of modern bison, and other large Ice Age mammals roamed Iowa during this time Holocene Epoch (11,700 years ago to present day) • Many of Iowa’s rich prairie soils developed • Archaeologists have found evidence of Iowa’s first people beginning around 11,000-12,000 years ago

Devonian Period (419 to 359 million years ago) • Abundant marine life exposed in limestone at the Devonian Fossil Gorge near Coralville Lake is of middle Devonian age (about 375 million years old) Mississippian Period (359 million years ago to 323 million years ago) • Glaciation in the southern hemisphere caused sea levels to rise and fall multiple times over tropical Iowa • Iowa was a center for diverse marine life during this period; exceptionally preserved crinoid fossils from LeGrand in Marshall County are internationally known • Chert deposited in the Burlington limestone would later be used by the first people in Iowa Pennsylvanian Period (323 million years ago to 299 million years ago) • The central part of North America was near the equator, and abundant coal deposits formed in coastal swamps • Pennsylvanian bedrock is preserved in the central and southern parts of Iowa Permian Period (299 million years ago to 252 million years ago) • No rocks of this age are preserved in Iowa 12

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Iowa’s Archeological Timeline

PALEOINDIAN

ARCHAIC

WOODLAND

11,700 – 8,500 BC

8,500 - 800 BC

800 BC – 1250 AD

LATE PREHISTORIC/ ONEOTA

HISTORIC Since 1673

1250-1673 • The earliest known people to arrive in and live in Iowa (about 12,000 years ago) came on foot and were originally from Siberia; they walked across a land bridge to North America called Beringia (once the ice sheets melted, that land bridge disappeared beneath the ocean) • The last of the glaciers in Iowa retreated not long before the first Native Americans were in the area • Human artifacts have been found dating back to 11,000 years ago; archaeologists recognize these artifacts as being associated with the Clovis Archaeological Complex.

A site in Cedar County produced a cache of projectile points.

• Late Paleoindian groups were hunting bison in Iowa 10,000 years ago • Mammoth and mastodon teeth and bones have been discovered in every county in Iowa; it is believed that Late Paleoindian people hunted these animals

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• By this time period, all the Ice Age animals were extinct, including the stagmoose; the people of this time are hunters, gatherers, and fishermen • White-tailed deer became an important food animal as prairie and woodlands were established across Iowa after the end of the Ice Age • Nuts and wild plants became increasingly important foods during the Archaic period • The earliest known burials in Iowa were found in Polk County from about 4800 BC • Archaeologists discovered evidence for some of the earliest houses – more than 6,000 years old – in Louisa, Muscatine, and Polk Counties

• Pottery became widespread in Iowa after 500 BC • Artifacts such as marine shells, obsidian, and pipestone are evidence of far-ranging trade networks at some Middle Woodland sites • Agriculture became increasingly important during the Woodland period • Effigy mounds were built

by Late Woodland groups in northeast Iowa • The Toolesboro Mounds area was inhabited from about 200 BC to 300 AD in southeast Iowa • Populations increased • Bow-and-arrow hunting was introduced

• The Blood Run area of northwest Iowa was a large village and ceremonial site; the Big Sioux River, abundant game, fertile soil, and access to pipestone made this land attractive to these people • Mill Creek farmers in northwest Iowa created extensive ridged agricultural fields • Native people built earth lodges and farmed throughout Iowa • Social and political organizations became more complex • Distinctive ceramic traditions emerged • Long-distance trade networks grew • Large permanent and semi-permanent villages are shown in the archaeological record • Large-scale agriculture emerges, with cultivation of Central America domesticated corn, squash, and beans along with earlier domesticated crops • It is not known how many Native Americans lived in Iowa during this time, but the population likely peaked at around 6,000

• French explorers Marquette and Joliet arrived along the Mississippi River in 1673 • The Ioway Nation likely descended from the Late Prehistoric Oneota culture • Meskwaki and Sauk tribes arrived in Iowa around 1736 • Lewis & Clark crossed Iowa in 1804 on their expedition to explore the Louisiana Territory • The first government land purchase from the Indians, the Black Hawk Purchase, occurred in 1832 • In 1835, the First Regiment of the Dragoons, a mounted infantry group, explored what is now the state of Iowa • After the Black Hawk Purchase, Iowa opened to Euroamerican settlement • Settlers poured into Iowa, establishing homes, farms, and businesses • American Indian tribes struggled to maintain cultural identity as pressure from Euroamerican settlers mounted • Euroamerican diseases contributed to declining Indian populations – From the Iowa Office of the State Archaeologist

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ROCK ON: IOWA’S GEOLOGIC RECORD From glaciers to inland seas, from Midcontinent Rift to a cataclysmic meteorite strike, the stuff that Iowa is made of is more than meets the eye. While the state doesn’t have Rocky Mountains like Colorado, or rock formations like Utah, or the Grand Canyon like Arizona, Iowa nevertheless has a fascinating and dynamic geologic past.

Going deep: Iowa’s earliest beginnings

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ll the cool stuff that happened in Iowa’s geologic past happened in the Precambrian, according to Jane Pedrick Dawson (’83 geology, MS ’86), ISU senior lecturer in geological and atmospheric sciences.

But then, Dawson admits, her research specialization is the Precambrian. She gets really excited talking about basement rock and rift systems and gravitational pull.

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there, but we don’t have access to it.”

What geologists here study, she explains in lay terms, are the “first and second floors of the house.”

“The Precambrian basement here is billions of years old. Iowa is on a very stable area of continental crust.”

Actually, she says, maybe not ALL the exciting stuff happened in the Precambrian (which ended more than 500 million years ago), but much of it did.

“One really interesting exciting thing that happened in Iowa toward the end of the Precambrian – about 1.1 billion years

ago – there was a massive continental rifting event. It went from Kansas up through Lake Superior, called the Midcontinent Rift.

This was a very fast event with a massive, massive outpouring of lava and associated volcanic activity. We’re sitting on the shoulder of the rift here in Ames.

“Later compressional forces squeezed the rift valley in Iowa up into a mountain range, and sediment shed off into basins on the side,” she continues. “It got eroded and then buried under younger sediments after the Precambrian (the last 540-odd million years) – that’s about the last one-eighth of FALL 2016 WWW.ISUALUM.ORG VISIONS

“A lot of people think, well, this is Iowa. What’s here that’s so special? A lot of people don’t really understand just how unusual to have something like the Manson Meteor right in your backyard.” – Doug Jones

Touching the past There’s something unique in the far northwest corner of Iowa: A piece of history more than a billion years old.

Sioux Quartzite is the oldest exposed rock in the state, and you can find it in Gitchie Manitou State Preserve, where the closest town is actually in South Dakota.

Jane Pedrick Dawson, ISU senior lecturer in geological and atmospheric sciences, is beside herself with happiness when she sees the wind-polished, pink-tinted rocks in their natural habitat for the first time.

“This is about 1.7 billion years old,” she says reverentially, touching the rock. “It’s from a unit of time in the Precambrian called Proterozoic; it’s middle Proterozoic in age. These quartzite bodies are showing us where the southern margin of North America used to be” before the

Continent on the move: Plate tectonics Jane Pedrick Dawson stands on Sioux Quartzite – the oldest exposed rock in Iowa – in Guthrie Manitou State Preserve.

the Earth’s history. Precambrian is the first seven-eighths of Earth’s history. The development of multi-cellular life is in the last eighth.”

So, that’s the beginning – before Iowa was covered in a warm, shallow sea, before it was covered by glaciers, before prairies, before bison, before people. That’s how it all got started.

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In high school Earth science, most of us learned that the top layer of planet Earth is a series of plates that are constantly shifting.

Jane Pedrick Dawson, ISU senior lecturer in geological and atmospheric sciences, describes this process a bit more colorfully: “All continents are put together like patchwork quilts,” she says.

“You start with a few pieces and then you just keep adding more and more pieces around the outside, so all continents are amalgamations of pieces that may be locally derived or may have traveled a long way and then get smashed in and attached.’’

While Iowa’s landscape was transforming through the years, the North American continent itself was slowly making its way up from the south, explaining the fossil records of some tropical plants and animals in Iowa.

continents shifted many millions of years ago.

Sioux Quartzite is resistant to weathering.

Through millions of freeze-thaw cycles and a half-dozen continental glaciers, it has survived.

Beginning in the late 1890s, for several years the rock was quarried here in Iowa’s northwest corner. It is currently quarried in South Dakota and Minnesota, and the crushed rock is used on roads and for railroad ballast.

“One of the things that just trips my trigger is when you think about the processes that went into making all this [Sioux Quartzite] and then it just SAT THERE for over a billion years and then we come along and find a use for it,” Dawson says. “When this gets put into asphalt, people are driving over pieces of what used to be the edge of our continent without even realizing it.”

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Landform regions and surface topography of Iowa

Glaciers R Us

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hen you ask Iowa’s geologists, anthropologists, and historians what has most influenced the current Iowa landscape, they’ll all give you one word: glaciers.

“We have a beautiful glacial history in Iowa because of the way the glaciers have shaped our land masses,” Hannah Carroll, ISU PhD candidate in ecology/evolutionary biology and environmental science, says.

Glaciers are what made central Iowa’s landscape flat and fertile. They produced rivers and streams and “prairie potholes.” In the northwest, south, and northeast, glaciers created the Iowa Great Lakes and the rolling farmland made famous by artist Grant Wood.

The Upper Midwest probably experienced around 25 phases of glaciation in the last 2.5 or 3 million years. Scientists know there were multiple glaciations from the many layers of sediment (or till) laid down by the glaciers and from mud layers cored from the ocean bottom that changed their chemistry every time glaciers advanced.

Central Iowa was de-glaciated very recently relative to other parts of the state. The Des Moines Lobe – with its terminal moraine right around downtown Des Moines – retreated from Iowa only

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about 14,000 years ago.

“The interesting thing about the Iowa landscape is that most of Iowa – the southern part, the western part, and the eastern part – those parts of Iowa were last glaciated more than 300,000 to 400,000 years ago,” Neal Iverson (’83 geology), ISU professor of geological and atmospheric sciences, says. “So those glacial sediments have been subject to river erosion for all that time since then. That’s why the land outside the Des Moines Lobe is more rolling.”

Iverson is Iowa State’s top expert on glacial science. “What makes this [central] part of Iowa unusual,” he says, “is that this glacier stepped out of here not that long ago – about 14,000 years ago – probably not too long before the first Native Americans were in the area.”

He says that at the time the Des Moines Lobe came into Iowa, the climate was getting warmer. “There was actually a forest,” Iverson says. “It wasn’t tundra; there were trees like hemlocks, spruce, boreal forest sorts of trees, and they got pushed over by the glacier. If you’re lucky you can find these old logs buried at the bottom of the Des Moines Lobe sediments and you can date those old logs using radiocarbon. They

tend to have ages of about 16,500 to 17,000 calendar years.”

The Iowa Great Lakes were formed by the last glacial advance. Other lakes – Clear Lake and Wall Lake, for example – are also natural lakes that wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for the last glacial advance. Outside the boundaries of the Des Moines Lobe there are virtually no natural lakes, only reservoirs.

Iverson thinks it’s important for people to understand glacial movement. “The last time ice came into Iowa, it was likely surging due to dynamic reasons rather than advancing for climatic reasons, and I think that’s pretty important,” he said.

“I think people think of glaciers as being these passive blobs of ice that just respond in a very slow way to climate change. That’s just not true; sometimes glaciers advance very rapidly for dynamic reasons unrelated to climate change. The base of the glacier effectively gets very, very slippery and the ice slides out across the landscape very rapidly. People think the Des Moines Lobe advanced at a speed of something like 2,000 meters a year, which is quite fast for a glacier.”

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Making an impact: the Manson Crater Around 74 million years ago, something really shocking happened near what is now the town of Manson, in southeast Pocahontas County, Iowa.

A large asteroid hit the Earth, causing debris to fly to areas as far away as Nebraska and Dakota.

Nobody was hurt, because nobody was there.

This was in the Cretaceous period, and it would be millions of years before humans arrived on the scene. But the meteorite, thought to be about 1.2 miles in diameter, created an impact structure 24 miles in diameter and likely caused a tsunami in the Western Interior Seaway.

The site at the time was the shore of a shallow inland sea. No surface evidence exists

today due to relatively recent coverage by glacial till, and the site where the crater lies buried is now a flat area – the crater is essentially invisible to the naked eye due to Iowa’s shifting landscape.

Researchers first became interested in the site in 1912 when well water proved to be unusually soft when compared to other Iowa water. The Manson crater was first recognized as an impact structure in 1966.

The Manson impact structure is the largest intact onshore meteorite crater in the continental U.S. The town of Manson holds an annual Greater Crater Days.

Traveling Iowa’s geological wonders Nothing to see here? You just have to know where to look! Take a trip across Iowa to check out these unique landforms. We’ve also included some detailed recommendations from many of our Iowa State experts.

• Loess Hills in western Iowa • Gitchie Manitou State Preserve, for Sioux Quartzite, in northwest Iowa • Fossil & Prairie Park in Floyd County near Rockford, for its Devonian-aged rocks and marine fossils that you can collect and take home • Devonian Fossil Gorge near Iowa City, for marine fossils • Ledges State Park and Dolliver Memorial State Park, for snapshots of the Pennsylvanian time period • Maquoketa Caves State Park in eastern Iowa,

The Loess Hills of western Iowa.

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for Silurian-aged rocks and examples of karst topography • Freida Haffner Kettle Hole State Preserve in northwest Iowa’s Dickinson County, for an example of a glacially created kettle feature The experts weigh in: • NEAL IVERSON: “I think the most interesting landscapes in Iowa are the Loess Hills; the Ames area because it was so recently glaciated; the northeastern part of Iowa, whose landscape is dominated by karst processes; and southern Iowa, which is this old landscape that was glaciated 300,000400,000 or more years ago, multiple times.”

• HANNAH CARROLL: “What we have, I think, is a really interesting geological history because

of all the different glaciations that have gone on and all these different landforms. You go over to the Driftless Area; you’ve got this Paleozoic plateau that hasn’t been glaciated for a long time, and you’ve got these beautiful limestone bluffs (northeastern Iowa). Loess Hills is interesting; you’ve got that really thick layer of very fine loess, and that sandy soil gives you a different kind of prairie than you would have in the Des Moines Lobe.”

• JANE PEDRICK DAWSON: “Drive up Hwy 52 [in northeast Iowa]. Come in to Guttenberg from the south, go down a great big hill – the Mississippi River is on your right, and there’s a road cut on your left. This is considered to be one of the most complete exposed sections of the Galena Group Middle Ordovician-aged sedimentary rocks in Iowa. These rocks were deposited in shallow seas that once covered the state. We just don’t have too many places in Iowa where we get to see big exposures like that.”

• JEROME THOMPSON: “People have a perception of Iowa being flat. Any person that’s ridden RAGBRAI will tell you it’s not. If you want to see Iowa, avoid I-35 and I-80. Traveling up Interstate 35, you see corn field and bean field and corn field and bean field…the area that was heavily glaciated and flattened. Now, if a person were to drive along Hwy. 18 in northern Iowa, they would get a sampling of the Loess Hills, and they would also get across part of the Des Moines Lobe and then get into the karst area of northeast Iowa. You get a lot of landscape change along that particular route.”

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WHAT THE FOSSILS TELL US: IOWA COMES TO LIFE What did the Iowa plant and animal landscape look like 12,000 years ago, when the first humans began to arrive? Iowa State experts paint a picture of that time period: “The landscape was changing from a tundra toward perhaps an oak savanna type of environment,” Matt Hill, ISU associate professor of anthropology, says. “The environment was drying out and warming up; the Ice Age animals – mammoths, giant beavers, mastodons, giant sloths – were teetering on extinction. There would have been camels, stag-moose, and bison” in this area.

“Plants would have been very cold-tolerant,” Hannah Carroll, ISU PhD candidate in the Department of Ecology, Evolution & Organismal Biology, adds. “You would have seen mosses, then lichens, then small flowering plants, with shrubs and trees appearing last.

It would have eventually been dominated by a prairie ecosystem.”

Under the sea

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hough Iowa today is firmly landlocked, it once was submerged beneath warm, shallow seas.

Inland seas have advanced and retreated over Iowa many times since the late Cambrian, about 500 million years ago. Portions of Iowa were last under water during the Cretaceous Period, which ended 66 million years ago.

At different points in Iowa’s geologic history, Iowa was a coastal area or completely submerged beneath the water. During the Mississippian and Devonian periods, Iowa was a center for diverse marine life. In fact, most rocks under the state’s glacial sediment are marine rocks, and many marine fossils can still be found today in Iowa.

Two areas are worth noting: the Devo-

Left: Fossils from the Devonian Fossil Gorge near Iowa City.

nian Fossil Gorge in Johnson County near Iowa City, and the Fossil and Prairie Park Preserve in Floyd County near Rockford.

Fossils were first exposed at the Devonian Fossil Gorge following the great flood of 1993. During that event, floodwaters swept away a campground and picnic facilities and first exposed the rocks of the gorge. Subsequent floods have widened the gorge and swept away loose rocks and vegetation to expose additional rocks and fossils.

Further north, in Floyd County, the Fossil and Prairie Park Preserve is a fossil hunter’s

paradise. The former brick and tile quarry is home to brachiopods, cephalopods, crinoids, and corals, remnants from 375 million years ago when the shallow seas covered Iowa.

“This park is a really unusual resource for the public,” Jane Pedrick Dawson (’83 geology, MS ’86), ISU senior lecturer in geological and atmospheric sciences, says.

“Most parks in the country prohibit you from collecting anything, and here’s a park that encourages you to get down on your knees and start sifting through the sediment and pull out the brachiopods and crinoids

“Most parks in the country prohibit you from collecting anything, and here’s a park that encourages you to get down on your knees and start sifting through the sediment and pull out the brachiopods and crinoids and other fossils and take them home.” – Jane Pedrick Dawson 18

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Visitors can pick up brachiopods, gastropods, cephlapods, and other fossils at Floyd County’s Fossil and Prairie Park Preserve.

Marine invertebrates from the Devonian Period are found at the Fossil and Prairie Park Preserve.

and other fossils and take them home.

I can’t think of any other place where the public is encouraged to collect fossils and take them home.”

Another related resource in Iowa is the University of Iowa’s Museum of Natural History. The museum has an exhibition showing a Devonian Coral Reef from 380 million years ago. Just recently, on the University of Iowa campus, a construction crew dug up 385-million-year-old coral fossils while working on the expansion of one of the university facilities.

In other “weird science” news, geologists at the Iowa Geological Survey recently found exceptionally preserved fossils from the Decorah Impact Structure in Winneshiek County, about 60 feet under the Upper Iowa River. It turns out that the fossils came from a 460-million-year-old predatory water bug said to be as big as a human. The creature, named Pentecopterus decorahensis, was a sort of sea scorpion that grew to 5 feet 7 inches with a spike tail and a dozen claw arms sprouting from its head.

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The Dinosaur debate Did dinosaurs live in Iowa? Well, it depends on whom you ask.

The Iowa Geological Survey website says: “Did dinosaurs once live in Iowa? The simple and unqualified answer is, ‘Yes, without a doubt!’

But the actual evidence for dinosaurs in Iowa is limited to only a few fossils. Dinosaur fossils have been found in several states adjoining Iowa (Nebraska, Minnesota, Missouri, South Dakota), and wandering dinosaurs would have been unimpeded by those artificial boundaries.”

And in the book Iowa’s Geological Past, author Wayne L. Anderson says: “Evidence for dinosaurs in the state is scant, consisting of a single bone fragment from Guthrie County.

[Researchers] tentatively identify the bone as dinosaurian based on its size and microscopic structure.”

Not so fast, says Matt Hill, ISU associate professor of anthropology. “It needs to be made clear that there were no dinosaurs in Iowa,” he says, adding, “Don’t believe everything

you read.” He cites the confusion of a recent find, a fossil that was first thought to have come from a sea reptile but eventually was determined to have come from…a horse.

“In short, to say the dinosaur record in Iowa is scant is an overstatement,” he says.

“It consists of one very small piece of suspected dinosaur bone from a stream.”

To wit: “No dinosaur fossil has yet been firmly identified from Cretaceous strata anywhere in the state of Iowa,” according to a 1996 field guide to the Cretaceous of Guthrie County written by Larry J. Wilson, Iowa Department of Natural Resources.

However, the author goes on to say that the bone fragment found in the Guthrie County gravel pit is possibly a dinosaur fossil, and “it is hoped that some diligent or exceptionally lucky collector will one day produce an identifiable bone.”

And so the debate continues. Stay tuned.

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Matt Hill finds artifacts in Ledges State Park.

A state filled with game

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hen European settlers arrived in what is now Iowa, the state was full of game; there was an abundance of wildlife. Truly, the biodiversity was greater than most people would expect.

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45 species of reptiles, 21 species of amphibians, and 136 species of fish. An even greater variety of insects, other invertebrates, and plants were found in the state. According to A Country So Full of Game by James L. Dinsmore, several thousand species of plants and animals once occupied Iowa.

Today, a number of those species have

become extinct in Iowa or have become threatened or endangered.

Some of the species the European settlers would have encountered included bison, elk, white-tailed deer, black bears, wolves, coyotes, foxes, bobcats, mountain lions, muskrats, otter, beaver, mink, passenger pigeons, prairie chickens, wild turkeys, FALL 2016 WWW.ISUALUM.ORG VISIONS

“The general appearance of Antler from an extinct stag-moose, found near Ladora, Iowa

the country is one of great beauty. Taking this District all in all, for convenience of navigation, water, fuel, and timber; for richness of soil; for beauty of appearance; and for pleasantness of climate, it surpasses any portion of the United States with which I am acquainted.”

– Lt. Albert Lea, a topographer with the 1835 U.S. Dragoon expedition in Notes on the Wisconsin Territory

Moose in our midst The little-known stag-moose, an Ice Age animal, lived in Iowa as far back as 30,000 years ago and went extinct just under 10,000 years ago. Matt Hill, ISU associate professor of anthropology, has specimens of these unique animals in his Curtiss Hall office on campus.

He holds up one antler, found in Parkersburg, that he radiocarbon dated to be between 12,600 and 12,800 years old. He picks up another, found by a retired game warden in western Iowa. Another, found in the 1970s by a gravel pit operator in Polk County and currently on display at the State Museum in Des Moines, is thought to be about 30,000 years old.

“I just got really lucky, dating that old one [and then this young one],” Hill says. “The number of directly dated stag moose in the country – there are only a handful. They’re unusual.”

He says the stag-moose – which had the body of a moose, the face of an elk, and an antler rack like neither – were here before glaciers covered central Iowa, and they returned for a short time after the glaciers retreated. The age of the most recent specimen suggests that these animals lived at the same time as the earliest known humans in the area.

“If Iowans knew the basic concepts about our state, we would have more pride than Texans.” – Jerome Thompson quail, ruffed grouse, cranes, shorebirds, and waterfowl.

Of course, most of the Ice Age animals had already died out: the stag-moose, mastodon, mammoth, giant sloth, and the like.

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Ledges State Park in Boone County during our photo shoot, Matt Hill, ISU associate professor of anthropology, found a small bone fragment (above left).

“Ledges has 12,000 years of history,” Hill says. “The stream scours out the remnants of buried materials. Everything buried was once on the surface.”

Hill says people bring him fossilized remains to identify every month. Often the bones turn out to be from a recent, domesticated species. But sometimes he hits the jackpot.

“It’s not what we find, from my perspective. It’s what we find out.”

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A LONG JOURNEY: IOWA’S FIRST HUMANS

Human settlement of what is now the state of Iowa did not begin with Lewis & Clark or the Dragoons discovery corps or the pioneers or even the Native American tribes. Archaeologists believe that people first arrived in what is today Iowa approximately 12,000 years ago. These people were the ancestors of the American Indians of today, crossing a land bridge into North America and migrating south.

Archaeological evidence of human habitation has been found in every county of the state, from the Paleoindians to the Woodland and Oneota cultures.

The first people of Iowa

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any thousands of years ago – perhaps 18,000 to 20,000 years – a migration began in Siberia that would change everything we know about our past.

Slowly and steadily, people walked across what is now the Bering Strait. How? During the last glacial period, sea levels were lowered several hundred meters because massive amounts of water were taken up as continental glaciers, lowering sea levels and exposing land between Alaska and Siberia.

Anthropologists have named the exposed continental shelf that connected Russia to North America Beringia.

“From northeast Siberia, people just naturally spread,” Matt Hill, ISU associate professor of anthropology, said. “By 11 and a half thousand years ago, we had people in the mid-continent, south of Canada. All native Americans are derived from ancestral populations in Siberia. This is supported by archaeological evidence, and the genetic evidence leaves little doubt.”

It’s pretty mind-boggling, right?

“Just think about it,” Hill says. “There was a first person who took the first step into Iowa. Somebody took that first step. There was nobody here before them. It was a clean

slate. They had to learn the geography, the distribution of plant and animal resources, and the waterways firsthand. They could not rely on anybody else. They could not ask grandma or grandpa. Over time, they acquired information that they could share.

We don’t know exactly how, but they shared this information, and these people flourished. They flourished.”

Hill explains that the educational process – understanding the landforms and the distribution of resources – is called “landscape learning.” The earliest humans in the state didn’t stay in one place; they were constantly on the move. Hill describes them as “human foragers” – gathering plant foods, hunting animals, collecting eggshells, and perhaps fishing from the rivers.

Not much is known about the earliest Iowans. “The nomadic cultures didn’t leave much behind,” Steve Lensink (’68 physics), associate director for the Office of the State Archaeologist, says. “They were on the move, and they didn’t carry many heavy items with them. So those archaeological records are gone.”

Later in pre-history, when people began to rely on domesticated plants such as corn, the agricultural fields tethered them more

to a single location. By the Middle and Late Woodland periods (about 200 BC to 1250 AD), groups of people were beginning to stay in one place. Archaeologists have found records of trade networks, agriculture, earth lodges, burial mounds, and raised-bed gardens.

Although many people assume that early humans lived mainly along rivers, survey work shows habitation occurred throughout the state, according to Lensink. “There are sites all over Iowa,” he says. “Anywhere you happen to be, you’re probably only half a mile at most to an archaeological site.”

There’s no consensus among experts how many Native Americans lived in the state of Iowa prior to European settlement, but the population at any given time likely was no more than 6,000.

“We have 23 federally recognized Native American tribes that were historically resident in Iowa,” Jerome Thompson (’74 anthropology), former curator of the State Historical Society of Iowa, says. “One misperception is that native people all went away, and they didn’t. They’re still here. They’re still practicing their culture.”

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Matt Hill holds an unfinished weapon point from the rare Clovis cache found in Carlisle, Iowa.

The Clovis cache When the Army Corps of Engineers began building a levee in 1968 around the southeast side of Carlisle, a town in central Iowa, it was thought that a late prehistoric village of about a 1,000 years old was present in the area. So some archaeologists from Iowa State were working the site, including Jeff Hruska (’74 fisheries & wildlife biology), who now works for Iowa Department of Natural Resources.

What they found was shocking: a cache of artifacts that was ELEVEN THOUSAND years old.

Matt Hill, associate professor of anthropolo-

gy, explains the significance: “There is no older evidence of humans in Iowa than this Clovis cache,” he says. “This is one of a kind. This is really unique. It’s unbelievable.”

The Clovis culture is a prehistoric Paleoindian culture named after distinct stone tools found at sites near Clovis, N.M., in the early 1930s. Clovis people appeared just after the retreat of the last glaciers in what is now the United States, and they are considered to be the ancestors of most of the indigenous cultures of the Americas.

In Iowa, Hill says, “The archaeological record

they left behind is incredibly difficult to locate.

These sites are really, really rare. Those sites have to be preserved for 11,000 years and then we have to find them. These are needles in a haystack. We’re very fortunate to have found this site.”

The 37 items making up the cache include 25 unfinished weapon points and 12 hand-held scraping tools for defleshing animal hides. The points are made of Burlington chert, a rock that occurs in southeast Iowa.

Blood Run: A National Historic Landmark In Iowa’s northwest corner, just across the Big Sioux River from South Dakota, lies the remains of a large Native American village and ceremonial site called Blood Run. In the early 1960s, when Steve Lensink (’68 physics) was in high school, he joined an older friend in the first excavation of this culturally significant site.

“Blood Run was my first chance to do actual digging,” he says. “We found human remains, pipestone pipes, trade beads, and other historic items.”

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“Some of these archaeological features had never been found in Iowa,” Doug Jones (’89 anthropology) says.

The Blood Run site is thought to have been populated for 8,500 years, during which earth lodges were built by the Oneota culture and occupied by their descendant tribes. It was a major trading site from about 1500 to 1700. The location adjacent to the river, plus abundant game, fertile soil, and access to pipestone made this land attractive to Iowa’s early people.

“Geographically it’s kind of a magical place,” Jerome Thompson (’74 anthropology), former curator of the State Historical Society of Iowa, says. “Blood Run is the largest site of its kind ever found in Iowa.”

A master plan is in the works by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, Thompson says, to further preserve the site. The state of South Dakota has already created the Good Earth State Park southeast of Sioux Falls.

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Iowa’s cultural treasures

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oug Jones has a tough job.

Jones (’89 anthropology) is an archaeologist in Iowa’s State Historic Preservation Office in Des Moines. His job is to help preserve Iowa’s archaeological record and to educate current Iowans about their past.

Unfortunately, he says, 99 percent of Iowa has been plowed or mined or logged.

“There’s not that many places left in Iowa that have not been touched,” he says. “When you find those places, sometimes those places have been left alone for a reason.”

Take this site at Yellow Banks Park in Polk County: Woodland Indian cultures constructed mounds in which to bury their dead, along with pottery or personal items, nearly 2,000 years ago. Projectile points and tools from the Archaic period have also been discovered in the park.

But finding the remains of ancient people isn’t easy, he says. “Archaeology sites are tough to deal with, because most of the archaeology site is underground – you can’t see it. A lot of times you don’t know what’s there. Archaeology is a destructive science;

the only way you learn about things is by removing artifacts and digging up the context they’re in.”

Education, he says, is the key to preserving these unique artifacts from the past.

“The hardest thing to get people to understand is that there are important things that were left behind that we’re kind of messing up because of what we’re doing today,” he said, “whether it be mining or farming or industrial sites or even just building a house.”

Doug Jones stands near a Woodland Indian burial site in Yellow Banks Park.

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“[The North American landscape] was filled with perhaps millions

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of people in 1491. In several hundred years those cultures and populations were decimated. There’s more cultural variability represented in the archaeological record than exists on the planet today.” – Matt Hill

Effigy Mounds National Monument is located in northeast Iowa.

Effigy Mounds National Monument No big, splashy national parks exist in Iowa.

In fact, there are only one national historic site (President Herbert Hoover’s birthplace) and two national historic trails (Lewis & Clark and Mormon Pioneer). But there’s one very special national monument in northeast Iowa: Effigy Mounds.

“When you go up to Effigy Mounds, it’s like walking back in time,” Doug Jones (’89 anthropology), an archaeologist in Iowa’s State Historic Preservation Office, says.

The Effigy Moundbuilders were a culture during the Late Woodland period, according to the National Park Service. The construction of mounds was a regional cultural phenomenon.

Mounds of earth in the shapes of birds, bear,

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deer, bison, lynx, turtle, panther, or water spirit were the most common. Like earlier groups, the Effigy Moundbuilders also continued to build conical mounds for burial purposes.

The Effigy Moundbuilders also built linear or long rectangular mounds that were used for ceremonial purposes that remain a mystery.

Some archeologists believe they were built to mark celestial events or seasonal observances.

Others speculate they were constructed as territorial markers or as boundaries between groups.

The animal-shaped mounds remain the symbol of the Effigy Mounds culture. The national monument is located near Harpers Ferry, Iowa, on the Mississippi River.

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hile clear evidence exists that Iowa’s Indian tribes were involved in farming activities, big changes were afoot when Euroamericans began to settle the state in the mid-1800s.

“You can make a good argument that Iowa is the state that’s been most transformed by European settlement,” Jeff Bremer, ISU assistant professor of history, says. “Ninety-nine percent of the prairies are now gone.”

You’ll get no disagreement from Mike Blair (MS ’78 Earth science), a high school earth science teacher in Des Moines who recently gave an Iowa geology lecture in Ames. “Ninety percent of Iowa was covered in prairies just 150 years ago,” he says. “Now

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there are virtually none.”

Hannah Carroll, an Iowa State PhD candidate majoring in ecology/evolutionary biology and environmental science, is a paleoecologist – someone who studies the ecology of the past. Her work takes her back as far as 11,700 years, but in Iowa she looks primarily at how the environment has changed since Europeans arrived.

“In 1843, before much European settlement, I see reports raving about how beautiful Iowa is; there’s this gorgeous, clear water, all the game you can find, beautiful prairies, beautiful forests,” she says.

“But within 60 to 70 years we have a very different picture. They’re reporting on all the land that’s been drained, and they’re

very proud of that endeavor because it opened up so much land to agriculture.

Massive public works projects … have drained the land. And now they say it’s beautifully productive and much healthier for the residents because they don’t have stagnant, standing water. But of course you have accordant losses in ecosystem services and diversity and water quality.”

When the first of the European settlers came to Iowa, the best land in the mid1800s was in southern Iowa, according to Neal Iverson (’83 geology), ISU professor of geological and atmospheric sciences. “But then once the drainage cooperatives started on the Des Moines Lobe footprint, once farmers banded together, this whole part of FALL 2016 WWW.ISUALUM.ORG VISIONS

Traveling Iowa’s best archaeological sites

Alumnus Steve Lensink works in the Office of the State Archaeologist in Iowa City.

Preserving the past Steve Lensink (’68 physics), associate director of the Office of the State Archaeologist at the University of Iowa, grew up in Sheldon, Iowa. As a teenager, he followed a friend involved in the Iowa Archaeology Society to dig, seemingly, for buried treasurer at what is now known as the Blood Run site in northwest Iowa.

After that career-shaping summer activity, he says, it was hard to go back to being a lifeguard.

Following his graduation from Iowa State, Lensink describes his graduate school education as “colorful, punctuated by bouts of alternative civilian service” during the Vietnam War years.

He joined the staff of the state archaeology office while he was working on his doctoral dissertation and then became the director of the Highway Archaeology Program. Over the past 32 years Lensink has served as the assistant director, associate director, and occasional interim director of the Office of Archaeology, located in Iowa City.

“I never wanted to be director for long,” he says with a smile. “I always want to be able to say that the buck doesn’t stop here.”

Lensink and his team conduct research, excavate historic sites, preserve artifacts, and ensure that human remains are properly buried and that Native American sacred sites are maintained.

The office also provides educational resources for the public and manages data on all recorded archaeological sites in Iowa.

the landscape was changed forever. That’s something that everybody should know.

This part of Iowa, hydrologically and ecologically, isn’t anything close to what it was prior to settlement. And that’s largely due to the drainage of the landscape and due, of course, to the advent of row cropping on an industrial scale.”

“Iowa is unique in its intensity of its agriculture,” Carroll says. “We have several counties in Iowa where 80 to 90 percent of the total land area of the whole county is tile-drained.”

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early settlers, right up to today’s farmers.

“The most recent glacier retreated around 14,000 years ago, so the landscape is very young. The soil that developed on that landscape is, by geological standards, fresh and brand new, with fresh, ground-up minerals providing nutrients to help make the soil fertile along with lots of organic matter,” she explains. “In parts of Iowa, the landscape is still too new to drain [on its own], so to farm it we had to tile and drain it.”

Farmers today can thank Iowa’s glaciers for their bountiful harvests, according to Iverson. “The whole economy of Iowa really wouldn’t be anything like it is today without the repeated glaciation of Iowa.”

Iowa’s most significant pre-European settlement sites in Iowa can be visited, along with several museums, to tell the story of Iowa’s earliest people: • Blood Run National Historic Landmark in northwest Iowa • Toolesboro Mounds National Historic Landmark, Wappelo (southeast Iowa), one of the best preserved Middle Woodland burial sites, plus native prairies • Effigy Mounds National Monument in northeast Iowa, part of the National Park Service • Yellow Banks Park, Polk County in central Iowa • Ft. Atkinson, Winneshiek County in northeast Iowa • State Historical Museum of Iowa, Des Moines • Museum of Natural History, Iowa City • Putnam Museum, Davenport Story sources & resources ISU faculty and alumni sources: • Matt Hill, ISU associate professor of anthropology • Neal Iverson (’83 geology), ISU professor of geological and atmospheric sciences • Jane Pedrick Dawson (’83 geology, MS ’86), ISU senior lecturer in geological and atmospheric sciences • Doug Jones (’89 anthropology), archaeologist in Iowa’s State Historic Preservation Office • Steve Lensink (’68 physics), associate director, Office of the State Archaeologist • Jerome Thompson (’74 anthropology), former state curator of the State Historical Society of Iowa • Bill Whittaker, research director, Office of the State Archaeologist • Hannah Carroll, ISU PhD candidate in the Department of Ecology, Evolution & Organismal Biology • Jeff Bremer, ISU assistant professor of history • Mike Blair (MS ’78 Earth science), Hoover High School (Des Moines) Earth science teacher Print resources: • Iowa’s Geological Past: Three Billion Years of Change by Wayne L. Anderson • Landscape Features of Iowa, a brochure produced by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources • A Country So Full of Game by James L. Dinsmore • The Des Moines Register Online resources: • The Iowa Geological Survey • “Iowa Landscapes: Change and Continuity”

by Elizabeth Agey, Erica Graen, and Nicole Hindman • National Park Service: Effigy Mounds National Monument

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Greetings from Lake LaVerne On May 10, 2016, Lake LaVerne celebrated a milestone 100 years.

While its credibility as a full-fledged “lake” may never be strong, its significance in the hearts and minds of Iowa Staters is ocean-deep.

We asked for your favorite Lake LaVerne memories and stories, and you answered. Here is a sampling of the stories we received:

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It’s great to skate:

“Several of us whose ‘dorm’ was Richards House, which at the time housed overflow transfer students, occasionally ice skated on Lake LaVerne in the winter months of 1964-1965. What fun!”

“I was raised just up the street from Lake LaVerne (320 Stanton, to be exact). I remember going ice skating many times on Lake LaVerne, but one time especially stands out. I was about eight years old, I think, and I remember it being quite cold – probably around zero. There was always open water on the east end of the lake by the Union. My friends and I would often see how close we could get to the water without going through the ice. This time, I got too close. I don’t remember how much of me actually went into the water, but I believe it was well above my knees. I was able to get back onto the ice – perhaps with help from my friends, but I don’t remember. Deciding that it was time to go home, I went over to where my shoes were but couldn’t get my skates off. The shoelaces were frozen, along with my gloves and my pant legs. I had no choice, as I saw it, and walked home with my skates on. I remember it being very difficult to walk home, but I don’t remember anything after that. I suspect I went in and hid from my parents until I could get my skates off. I don’t think I ever tried to skate close to the open water again.”

– Doug McCay (L)(’71 indus admin) Ames, Iowa

– Vicki Weissinger Long (L)(’67 child development, MS ’70 education) Lee’s Summit, Mo. “Hot chocolate and peppermint schnapps may or may not have been involved in my memories of ice skating on Lake LaVerne. Those were great times! Special place on a special campus!”

– Randy Benton (A)(’84 music), LeMars, Iowa

“I’ve always wanted to touch the swans, but I heard they bite.”

“I was in entomology when I was here, and used to collect insects off these trees.”

“I usually come here to relax when I finish my studies. It gives me a sense of relaxation after a hard day.”

– Mohammed Al-Badaai, ISU sophomore, international business management Ames, Iowa

– Ian Murphy (MS ’09 toxicology) Alexandria, Va.

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– Mwape Mwanakatwe (’14 management), Ames, Iowa

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A note about the lake’s namesake: For when it’s forever:

– Dan Etler (L)(’95 finance) Shawnee, Kan.

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“Last October my father, Don Etler (A)(’76 ag engr), and I were in Chicago doing research on a large history project that we have been working on. Our travels brought us to Graceland Cemetery, which is the final resting place to many of Chicago's elite of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Graceland is located just a few blocks north of Wrigley Field. It was a beautiful, cool, but sunny Friday morning and we arrived bright and early to photograph the graves of the family members we are researching.

After we completed this task we decided to drive around the cemetery and see the stones of the famous people buried there: Cyrus McCormick (founder of International Harvester), Marshall Field (department store), George Pullman (train cars), Philip Armour (meat packing), and William Kimball (piano maker), just to name a few.

On the north side of Graceland there is a small lake, Lake Willowmere, near where many of these famous folks are buried. As we drove along the road I commented that this was sure a beautiful setting. I then noticed near the shore a very large square stone of red granite. The sides had been made smooth and inset was the name: LaVerne Noyes. I remember thinking, ‘I know that name!’ and I drove a few more feet. Then it hit me: Chicago. Wealthy & likely prominent. LaVerne Noyes.

I slammed on the brakes and pointed at the stone, yelling to my Dad, ‘Do you know who that is?’ It didn’t take him long (after I provided a few hints) to figure out that this was our Lake LaVerne namesake. Not sure how two Iowa Staters visiting Chicago could have had a more unexpected but memorable moment. It became one of the highlights of the trip.

Iowa Staters should know that our LaVerne Noyes rests peacefully on the shore of a beautiful little lake that is so very similar to the one that still bears his name at his alma mater.

And while all Iowa Staters know Lake LaVerne, few if any know how LaVerne Noyes made his fortune. The turbine on the top of windmills was his patent. His invention dotted the Iowa countryside and made life so much easier for farmers by pumping water from the well to the house. He and his wife had no children, so his fortune was divided up for scholarships (originally for WWI veterans) across 48 colleges and universities, including Iowa State. These scholarships continue to this day.”

“On Sept. 13, 2015, my boyfriend Mike and I set out to complete the Iowa State tradition of walking around Lake LaVerne three times in silence, holding hands to prove we were meant to be together. When we had finished the third lap, Mike got down on one knee and proposed! We will be married on Oct. 15.”

– Katie Brown (L)(’14 history) Ames, Iowa “You know that Lake LaVerne tradition, right? My best friend and I attempted to walk around the lake, thinking maybe we could stay friends forever. Anyway, it was super dark and scary and we ran home halfway through.”

– Allie Faivre, sophomore, ag and life sciences ed

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Several of you wrote to us about LaVerne Noyes the man, pointing out his little-known business success in the wind turbine industry. Among our favorite letters about Noyes (1872, liberal arts and sciences, PhD 1915) is this one from Dan Etler:

“A long time ago, my then-fiancé and I were late arriving for a movie, so we decided to do it [walk around Lake LaVerne three times]. The only problem was, it was below freezing and I was wearing a skirt – a rather short one.

My legs didn't warm up until the end of the next movie screening. But I am happy to report that we have now been married almost 42 years.”

– RuthAnn Royer (L)(’75 art education, MA ’77 applied art) Lincoln, Neb.

Gone fishin’: “I have to laugh every time I hear ‘Lake LaVerne!’ I had this wonderful 10-gallon aquarium with great, expensive fish set up in my fraternity room. I was really fussy about keeping it up. Well, one night a couple of jokers decided to play a trick on me and took one of my wire coat hangers and a pair of my long underwear, tied the legs in a knot, and made a net. They went right down to Lake LaVerne to get a few new fish for my aquarium. This was done in the wee hours of the night, of course. The next morning I woke up with two gigantic gold fish swimming in my aquarium and all my nice fish huddled in the corner, frightened to death. After a little fishing [in the aquarium], back down to the Lake LaVerne they went.”

– Steve Frank (’76 farm operation) Storm Lake, Iowa

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On what ends up in the Lake: “My uncle, Pete Perret (L)(’60 landscape arch), recalled the 1957 Iowa State basketball win over Kansas and Wilt Chamberlain that caused the campus to go wild. The campus was abuzz after the victory, and someone put some type of explosive under the dam by the lake. After the explosion a brick from the dam was found on the Memorial Union roof.”

“I remember an eventful morning during the fall of my senior year, 1975, when a beef heifer escaped from the old Meat Lab; she took an interesting trip around campus that finished with the heifer in Lake LaVerne. It was an interesting morning.”

– John W. Hallberg (L)(’76 animal sci, MS ’78 meat sci, DVM ’82, PhD ’84 meat sci) Kalamazoo, Mich.

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– Kathy Perret (’81 elementary ed) Sioux City, Iowa “On a warm Sunday afternoon in the summer of 1963 a longtime friend, Ken, and I purchased an eight pack of Miller beer (we were both over 21) and spent a quiet afternoon sitting in the shade drinking our beer, enjoying the warmth, and solving the world’s problems. As the day drifted on we decided it was time to go home, but we knew we could not take the remaining two cans of beer with us. What to do? Since we were near the campus we decided we would hide the beer in Lake LaVerne. We found a niche under the bank on the southeast shore of the lake and, without anyone around, tucked our remaining two cans of Miller in. We had planned to go back again to retrieve our stash, but neither did. After 56 years Ken and I are still friends. Both raised families and had varied lives, but neither went to look for our beer. Is it still there? I think I remember the general location, but over the 52 years the landmarks have changed – plus, I think the lake has been dredged since 1964. Still, maybe we should go back. No sense in wasting beer!”

– John Esser (L)(’65 horticulture) Madison, Wis. “During finals week there was most likely a book or two floating on Lake LaVerne. I always assumed that the student who discarded them either was extremely glad to be done with the class, or tried to resell them, only to find out the bookstore wasn’t buying them back!”

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– Lynne Murphy (’81 leisure services) Des Moines, Iowa

“I was commissioned an Ensign in the U.S. Navy from ISU in 1971. Having spent five years in Friley Hall, walking by the lake almost daily, leads to many memories. Perhaps the most memorable was the time when the NROTC was initiating freshmen NROTC students into the Sextant Society. We were fortunate to be able to experience Lake LaVerne up close; our duty was to patrol the lake to watch out for submarines and swan attackers. We wore our dress navy blue uniforms and used a row boat with oars while underway to cover our patrol area. I can say proudly that during our time on the lake the swans were never bothered and we did not have to have shots after our tour of ‘duty’ on the lake.”

– Paul (Pete) Friedman (L)(’71 chem engr, MS ’77) Collierville, Tenn.

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“My earliest memory of Lake LaVerne is from 1955. My grandfather, Harry Osborne, had taken me fishing to Little Wall Lake north of Ames and to the Isaac Walton Park east of Ames on several occasions. I was only seven years old at the time, but I do remember that we had no luck with our fishing prowess.

Now is where my Lake LaVerne story begins. I was only seven years old, but needed to have a hernia operation. On July 13 the doctor told my mother that whatever she did, be sure to keep me quiet. So, she planned a fishing trip to Lake LaVerne. Needless to say, that was the day that I caught my first fish.

In my mind the bluegill was a whopper. I kept jumping up and down while my mother tried to keep me calm. She snagged an Iowa State student and got him to help put the prize catch in the minnow bucket.”

– Alan O. Bornmueller (A)(’73 arch) Greer, S.C.

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SCIENCE BOUND A program committed to Iowa’s ethnically diverse students celebrates 25 years BY CO R E E N R O B I N SO N

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n 1991, when less than one percent of Iowans identified as Black, American Indian, or Hispanic, a program was conceived at Iowa State to embrace a national focus on increasing diversity in agriculture, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (ASTEM) fields.

Twenty-five years later, Iowa’s demographics have shifted. The state’s minority student population is at an all-time high, and that program created in 1991 – Science Bound – has seen more than 100 ethnically diverse students from Iowa high schools graduate from Iowa State, with a majority obtaining degrees in ASTEM fields.

Science Bound works with schools in Des Moines, Marshalltown, and Denison to identify eighth-grade, ethnic minority students with a propensity toward math and science and asks them to make a five-year commitment. Students complete activities to equip them academically and empower them socially and culturally for an ASTEM college degree. Those who successfully complete the five-year Science Bound program earn a four-year tuition scholarship to study an ASTEM field at Iowa State.

By the time Science Bound students graduate high school and complete the fiveyear program, they have been on campus more than a dozen times. Ninety-eight

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percent of students who complete the fiveyear Science Bound program enroll in college immediately after high school.

Almost 60% choose to attend Iowa State.

Science Bound’s support continues for those students who attend Iowa State, making the program a nine-year, long-haul effort. ISU Science Bound freshmen participate in a customized seminar, and students have access to private study spaces, mentoring programs, and academic resources.

of three siblings in their family to complete the Science Bound program and attend Iowa State. Both recall visits to the Iowa State campus through Science Bound giving them a taste of the student experience and wide variety of majors.

Well before he began high school, Sergio knew that mechanical engineering was his desired career path. He’s seen that dream become a reality; he’s now a quality engineer at Quality Manufacturing in Urbandale.

Maribel’s path was a bit more unusual.

“One of the visits to ISU included a lab where we conducted a pig necropsy – a pig autopsy,” she said. “None of the other programs caught and held my attention like that one did. So it probably sounds morbid, but because of that lab I knew that

A family’s path to higher education

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Siblings Sergio and Maribel Piñon

I wanted to study something with anatomy and nutrition of animals. That’s how I found animal science.”

This fall, Maribel is continuing her education as she begins a master’s degree in animal systems management at the Purpan School of Engineering in Toulouse, France.

The siblings say that their degrees likely wouldn’t have been possible without Science Bound.

“If it weren’t for the scholarship, I probably wouldn’t have been able to go to college,” Sergio said. “I tried to be really involved with Science Bound at Iowa State because of that. I’m very grateful.”

“It helped us financially, but more than that it helped my parents know what to expect for my brother and me after my sister went through the program,” Maribel added.

“Science Bound is like a big support system.

We’ve been with the program from eighth grade through college; we established a really strong connection. We’re still supporting each other and cheering each other on.”

Skills for success

Building up math and science skills through Science Bound programs proved invaluable

for JaRae’ (Shelton) Barrett (’10 food science).

“I come from a family of foodies,” Barrett said. “I always loved food but didn’t know how to translate that to a career. Science Bound showed me that there was a food science major at Iowa State and helped me gain the necessary skills and explore what I wanted to do. I can’t thank them enough for that exposure.”

Barrett works as a food technologist at Ventura Foods in Saginaw, Texas. Her research and development, along with creative work, helps formulate mayonnaises, sauces, and dressings for a wide variety of clients.

Cameron Creighton (’06 industrial technology) also gives Science Bound credit for helping him find a career path that fit his interests.

Creighton works in Los Angeles as a product manager for the Toyota RAV4 SUV. His job includes product planning to create detailed specs for the vehicle – everything from paint color to wheel sizes. It’s his job to ensure that these details reflect the preferences and needs of the customer.

“Science Bound steered me toward a more technical degree, and I think that’s a good thing,” Creighton said. “I think

state designed to prepare ethnically diverse Iowa students for careers in ASTEM fields.

• Science Bound is a long-term student development program that asks 12-13 year olds to make a five-year commitment.

• The program began with seed funding from Ames Lab and ISU in 1989-1990 and was fully launched with the receipt of a three-year National Science Foundation grant. Current funding comes from Iowa State University and area businesses, corporations, foundations, and individual sponsors.

• 3,000+ The number of middle and high school students from Des Moines, Marshalltown, and Denison who have participated in Science Bound • More than 500 The number of high school students who have completed the five-year program and been offered tuition scholarships to ISU • 113 The number of Science Bound students who have graduated from ISU since 2000 • 98% The percentage of Science Bound students who complete the five-year program and pursue post-secondary education • 55% The percentage of females who currently participate in the program • 62% The percentage of Hispanic/Latino students currently enrolled in the program (26% African American, 7% two or more races, 3% American Indian/Alaskan Native, 2% Hawaiian/Pacific Islander) • ISU graduates of the program are employed by Monsanto, Rockwell Collins, Wells Fargo, Principal Financial, Boeing, John Deere, and many other regional and national companies and institutions

it’s good to get more minorities into the technical fields, and Science Bound is really the reason that I ended up where I did.”

“Science Bound does literally everything in their power to give you the resources to excel in a math or science field. You were never alone,” Barrett said. “They give you the confidence boost to believe that you can do it, too.”

graduates. The program will celebrate these milestones Oct. 21-22 with events on campus.

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Honors&Awards Please join us in honoring these extraordinary alumni and friends

Awards will be presented at the 85th Annual Honors & Awards Ceremony, 1:15 p.m. Friday, Oct. 28, 2016, Benton Auditorium, Scheman Building Reception to follow the awards ceremony. The event is sponsored by the ISU Alumni Association and is open to the public.

To nominate alumni and friends for 2017 homecoming awards, go to www.isualum.org/honorsandawards.

Nomination deadline is Feb. 15, 2017.

ISU A LUMNI ASSOCI ATION Alumni Medal

Christina FreeseDecker** 2000 finance Senior VP/chief strategy officer, Spectrum Health Grand Rapids, Mich.

Nancy Degner**# 1972 food science Retired exec. director, Iowa Beef Industry Council Richard Degner**# 1972 ag & life sciences ed, MS 1977 Retired CEO, Iowa Pork Producers Association Ankeny, Iowa

Alumni Merit Award Tyler Weig* 2005 community health ed Executive director, South Suburban YMCA Des Moines, Iowa

Lynn Ross** 1999 community & regional planning Deputy asst. sec. for policy development, U.S. Dept. of Housing/ Urban Development Silver Spring, Md. Impact Award Thomas Hill* ISU senior policy adviser Lancaster, Texas

Outstanding Young Alumni Award Dr. Rachel Anne Allbaugh** 2000 animal science, DVM 2004 Assistant professor – ophthalmology, ISU College of Veterinary Medicine Boone, Iowa

COLLEGE AWA R DS AGR ICU LTU R E A ND LIFE SCIENCE S Henry A. Wallace Award Robert E. Walton, Sr.** PhD 1961 animal science Retired chairman & CEO, American Breeder Service & Agracetus DeForest, Wis.

Jeff and Deb Hansen Agriculture Student Learning Center Ames, Iowa Alumni Service Award Brian May** 1993 English Business development exec., Avnet Denver, Colo.

James A. Hopson Alumni Volunteer Award Sarah F. Fischer** 2002 English / political science Ph.D. program, Marymount University Washington, D.C.

Warren Madden**# 1961 industrial engr Retired ISU senior VP for business and finance Ames, Iowa

Floyd Andre Award Cindie Marie (DeCoster) Luhman 1985 animal science, PhD 1990 Group VP for R&D, feed & dairy foods, Land O’Lakes/Purina Animal Nutrition Gray Summit, Mo. Outstanding Young Professional Award Nancy Bohl Bormann* 2004 environmental science, ag & life sciences ed Iowa environmental services manager, Maschhoff Environmental, Inc. Lu Verne, Iowa

Kaitlyn Wiener* 2009 food science Food product developer, General Mills Minneapolis, Minn.

George Washington Carver Distinguished Service Award Walter A. Hill Dean, College of Agricultural, Environmental & Natural Sciences, Tuskegee Univ.; director, George Washington Carver Agricultural Experiment Station, Tuskegee Univ.

Tuskegee, Ala.

*ISU Alumni Association Annual Member **ISU Alumni Association Life Member # Sustaining Life Donor Only ISU degrees are listed

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BUSINE SS Citation of Achievement Nick Henderson* 1977 industrial admin VP, Holmes Murphy & Associates West Des Moines, Iowa Jane Sturgeon** 1985 accounting Retired Chair and CEO, Barr-Nunn Transportation Urbandale, IA

Dennis (Denny) Vaughn** 1970 chem engr President, Vaughn Group Services North Oaks, Minn.

Professional Progress in Engineering Award Matt Kipper 2000 chem engr, PhD 2004 Assoc. prof., Dept. of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Colorado State Univ.

Fort Collins, Colo.

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John D. DeVries Service Award Nancy Dittmer** 1984 accounting Senior VP, Newport Group Urbandale, Iowa

Alumni Achievement Award Daniel J. Phelan PhD 1990 higher ed President/CEO, Jackson College Jackson, Mich.

Russ and Ann Gerdin Award Gail E. Boliver** 1971 political science, MA 2001 Owner, Boliver Law Firm Marshalltown, Iowa

Outstanding Young Professional Award Jami S. Haberl 2000 community health ed Exec. director, Iowa Healthiest State Initiative Des Moines, Iowa

DE SIGN Christian Petersen Design Award Kate Schwennsen, FAIA 1978 architecture, M Arch 1980 Director/prof., Clemson Univ. School of Architecture Clemson, S.C. Design Achievement Award Michael Braley 1993 graphic design Creative director, Braley Design Lexington, Ky. Tom Gerend* 2000 community & regional planning Exec. director, Kansas City Streetcar Authority Kansas City, Mo. Matt Ostanik** 2001 architecture, MBA 2009 CEO, FunnelWise Dallas Center, Iowa ENGINEER ING Anson Marston Medal Joel Cerwick**# 1966 civil engr, MS 1968 Retired chairman of the board, Burns & McDonnell Overland Park, Kan.

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Melissa J. Wilmarth 2006 family & consumer sciences ed & studies Asst. prof. in consumer sciences, College of Human Environmental Sciences, Univ. of Alabama Northport, Ala. Helen LeBaron Hilton Award Joyce Binning Hoppes** 1979 home ec ed Promotion & consumer information director, Iowa Pork Producers Assn.

Van Meter, Iowa Virgil S. Lagomarcino Laureate Award Lori M. Reesor** MS 1987 higher ed Vice provost for student affairs / dean of students, Indiana Univ.

Bloomington, Ind. LIBER A L A RTS & SCIENCE S Distinguished Service Award Thomas A. Connop** 1976 history Partner, Locke Lord, LLP Dallas, Texas Carrie Chapman Catt Public Engagement Award Elizabeth A. Baird** 1976 jlsm & mass comm / intl studies Retired legislative liaison, Iowa Dept. of Transportation Ames, Iowa

Citation of Merit Award Rear Adm. Randall M. Hendrickson, US Navy (Ret)** 1983 political science / naval science Assoc. administrator for management & budget, National Nuclear Security Admin.

Stafford, Va. Dean’s Arts and Humanities Award Dennis C. Wendell* 1967 distributed studies Assoc. prof. emeritus, ISU Parks Library; curator emeritus, Ames Historical Society Ames, Iowa Young Alumnus Award Tyler P. Stafford 2011 advertising / speech comm Content strategist, Omelet Culver City, Calif.

V ETER INA RY MEDICINE Stange Award for Meritorious Service Dr. Michael G. Conzemius** DVM 1990, PhD 2000 Tata Group endowed prof. of surgery & director of the Clinical Investigation Center, Dept. of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Univ. of Minnesota St. Paul, Minn.

Dr. Vincent P. Meador 1977 bacteriology, DVM 1981, MS 1986 veterinary pathology, PhD 1988 VP & global research leader, toxicology & pathology, Covance Seattle, Wash.

Dr. Donald P. O’Connor 1969 bacteriology, MS 1972, DVM 1976 Retired staff epidemiologist, Division of Animal Health, Wisconsin South Wayne, Wis. William P. Switzer Award in Veterinary Medicine Dr. James Philip Stein** DVM 1975 Chairman of the Board, Central Bancshares, Inc. Muscatine, Iowa IOWA STATE U NI V ERSIT Y MEMOR I A L U NION Harold Pride Service Medallion Richard Reynolds** Retired director, Memorial Union Des Moines, Iowa

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With the return of the parade tradition to kick off Homecoming Week, as well as the addition of a 50-year class reunion and the ever-growing excitement about the Matt Campbell era of Cyclone football, Homecoming 2016: Leave Your LegaCY will be one of the most exciting ISU Homecoming celebrations yet.

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50th Class Reunion Celebrating the classes of ’65 and ’66 Calling the classes of 1965 and 1966! Come back to campus to celebrate your 50th class reunion during Homecoming Weekend 2016. Here are some of the activities we have planned for you: Friday, Oct. 28 • 50-Year Medallion Ceremony Breakfast, 9:45 a.m., ISU Alumni Center • Lunch and garden tours, noon-3 p.m., Reiman Gardens • Campus tours, 1-4 p.m., with shuttles to and from the ISU Alumni Center • Mix-and-Mingle Evening Cocktail Reception, 5-7 p.m., ISU Alumni Center • Plus all the other Homecoming activities on campus (see schedule at right) Saturday, Oct. 29 • Cyclone Central Tailgate, three hours prior to kick-off, ISU Alumni Center • Football vs. Kansas State, time TBD, Jack Trice Stadium For more information and to register, go to www.isualum.org/ reunion2016

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Homecoming Parade Mark your calendar for the return of a favorite Iowa State tradition! For the first time in many years, a parade will be part of ISU’s Homecoming activities.

The parade will be held Sunday, Oct. 23 at 2 p.m. in downtown Ames. The downtown route was chosen to attract businesses, the Ames community, alumni, and students.

“We hope to launch something that sticks, that becomes a Homecoming tradition,” said Homecoming Central Committee co-chair Allison Pitz, a senior in marketing and management.

Earlier ISU Homecomings included a parade with floats and bands for about 25 years starting in 1923.

Silent auction Don’t miss the opportunity to bid on some great items and help support current students through the Homecoming Cardinal Court Scholarship program.

WHAT: Homecoming Silent Auction WHEN: Friday, Oct. 28 during the Homecoming Celebration & Pep Rally (5-8:30 p.m.) / Saturday, Oct. 29 at Cyclone Central tailgate (3 hours prior to kickoff) WHERE: ISU Alumni Center

Here’s a sneak peek at some of the auction items: • Football signed by head coach Matt Campbell • Basketball signed by head coach Steve Prohm • Two box seat tickets to the Nov. 19 game against Texas Tech • Deluxe Spa Day at Finesse Spa • Painting of central campus • Family pack of four passes to Blank Park Zoo • Gift cards, Cyclone apparel, tickets, and more

Homecoming schedule  SATURDAY, OCT. 22 / MONDAY – FRIDAY, OCT. 24-28 Food on Campus Eat FREE on Central Campus with your Homecoming 2016 button.

Buttons available for sale at the events and ISU Alumni Center.

honorees from the ISU Alumni Association, ISU colleges, and the Memorial Union. The ceremony is open to the public. Learn more about this year’s event and recipients at www.isualum.org/ honorsandawards.

Homecoming Celebration & Pep Rally 5 - 8:30 p.m., ISU Alumni Center & parking lot Celebrate Homecoming with food, cash bar, giveaways, games, and merchandise for sale.

The pep rally is a can’t-miss ISU tradition featuring the marching band and spirit squad, coaches, student-athletes, Yell-Like-Hell finals, and Cardinal Court.

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 SUNDAY, OCT. 23 Homecoming Parade 2 p.m., downtown Ames  THURSDAY, OCT. 27 Homecoming Movie Night Sun Room, Memorial Union Enjoy a free movie at the Memorial Union.  FRIDAY, OCT. 28 50th Reunion celebrating the classes of ’65 and ’66 All day (see schedule at left) Homecoming Hub 1 - 5 p.m., ISU Alumni Center 85th Honors & Awards Ceremony 1:15 p.m., Scheman Building, Iowa State Center Join us for this must-attend annual celebration of distinguished

Greek Alumni Reception 5:30-7:00 p.m., ISU Alumni Center (third floor) You’re invited to “Leave Your LegaCY” at a reception sponsored by the Greek Alumni Alliance. Join your fellow Greek alumni for a Hickory Park-hosted dinner, cash bar, and silent auction.

ExCYtement in the Streets 8 - 10 p.m., Greek Community Pancake Feed 10 p.m. – midnight, Central Campus Mass Campaniling and Fireworks Midnight, Central Campus

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October table host special Co-chairs Beverly (’60) and Warren (’61) Madden and Nancy (’81) and Stan (’82) Thompson invite you to snag your table early to have a “roaring” good time at the

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Homecoming schedule continued  SATURDAY, OCT. 29 Cyclone Central Tailgate Three hours prior to kickoff, ISU Alumni Center Football vs. Kansas State Time TBD For more information and updates, go to www.isualum. org/homecoming

Can’t make it to all the 2016 Cyclone football games to watch in person? There’s a good chance you can find a “Cyclone Gamewatch Cyte” near you. Games will be shown at the locations listed at www.isualum.org/clubs. So put on your Cyclone gear and come out to watch the games in good company!

Feb. 10, 2017 Community Choice Credit Union Convention Center Des Moines, Iowa Take advantage of special table-host pricing during the month of October! Guests who buy a table of 10 in October will receive a $100-per-table discount.

Go to www.isualum.org/gala to reserve your table today or contact Chelsea Trowbridge, ctrow@iastate.edu, (515) 294-2584

This is a party you don’t want to miss!

Questions? Contact the gamewatch coordinator listed for each location or email Brandon Maske at bmaske@iastate.edu.

Make sure your email address is up-to-date with the ISU Alumni Association at www.isualum.org/ update to receive email invitations to events in your area.

Cyclone Central Tailgate: Your gameday tradition Leave the grill at home and join our familyfriendly atmosphere at the ISU Alumni Center!

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EAT & DRINK: Catered buffet*, food trucks (new this year!), cash bar

GO, CYCLONES: Alumni Center doors close 30 minutes prior to kickoff 2016 home football schedule Sept. 3: Northern Iowa (Hickory Park)

SHOP: One-stop shopping for spirit wear at Cyclone Central Marketplace:

Sept. 24: San Jose State (Burgies) Oct. 1: Baylor (Pizza Ranch) Oct. 29: Kansas State (Hickory Park) Nov. 3: Oklahoma (Pizza Ranch)

ISU MARCHING BAND & CHEERLEADER STEP SHOW: 80 minutes prior to kickoff, sponsored by:

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SHUTTLE SERVICE: Head to Jack Trice Stadium by complimentary service provided by:

Nov. 19: Texas Tech (Hickory Park) Nov. 26: West Virginia (ISU Catering) *Register in advance for buffet meals at www.isualum.org/cyclonecentral – ISUAA members receive a discount

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Enjoy your adventure with the Traveling Cyclones If you have a bucket-list destination for 2017, look no further than the Iowa State Alumni Association to take you where you want to go. We’re offering 42 trips next year, from Alaska to Tanzania. And we take care of all the arrangements. So leave the planning to us, and enjoy your adventure!

Here are just a few ways to discover your world in 2017: CIAL SPE ING! Travel with ISU ER President Steven O FF

Leath to Celtic lands

Cruise with ISU President Steven Leath and First Lady Janet Leath, for 8 nights aboard the M.S. LeBoréal from Scotland to Wales, Ireland, and France.

Enjoy guided excursions in each port of call provided by tour operator Thomas P. Gohagan & Company, including the beaches of Normandy. A special guest speaker on this cruise will be Dwight David Eisenhower II. May 16-25 Priced from $6,195

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OF A TRIP TIME! explore Cuba One of our most popular LIFE

travel partners, GoNext, has taken full advantage of the expanded access to Cuba – and it’s become one of our Traveling Cyclones’ favorite destinations.

Here are two opportunities in 2017 to explore this breathtaking island first-hand: • Cuban Discovery is a 9-day people-to-people adventure that goes beyond the tourist surface to reveal Cuba’s rich culture, history, and architecture. Jan. 14-22 Priced from $5,999 (Note: If January departure fills, another will be offered April 29 – May 7.)

• Grand Cuban Voyage features the best of western Cuba aboard the plush comfort and refined elegance of the M/V Victory 1. March 13-27 Priced from $8,999

Journey to Egypt and the Nile A 15-day journey into Egypt begins in Cairo and includes a 3-night cruise on Lake Nasser and a 4-night cruise on the Nile. Experience the Sphinx, the Pyramids of Giza, Abu Simbel, Luxor, Petra, and more on this small-group Odysseys Unlimited tour. March 6-20 Priced from $4,297

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Watch polar bears & belugas From adventure travel provider Orbridge, head north and discover the beauty and wildness of Churchill, Manitoba. Known as the “Polar Bear Capital of the World,” this small town on the banks of the Hudson Bay is famous for these majestic animals. In summer they share the area with more than 60,000 beluga whales and a wide variety of other wildlife. Aug. 16-22 Priced from $3,995

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For a complete list of 2017 Traveling Cyclone destinations, go to www.isualum.org/ travel2017

“Our trip to Cuba was amazing. We learned so much about the country, people, and politics. The guides were very knowledgeable and could answer any question.”

– Linda Melia, “Cuban Discovery” 2016

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Show your Cyclone pride and order online @isualum.org/store Stop by Cyclone Central Tailgates Marketplace at the Alumni Center before each home football game to check out our new and exclusive items! Everyone welcome!

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Newsmakers I O WA S TAT E A L U M N I I N T H E N E W S

Putting his stamp on it Flagstaff, Ariz., photographer Tom Bean (’71 fisheries & wildlife biology) has the rare experience of mailing his bills and correspondence using a postage stamp featuring one of his own photographs. The stamp’s image is of Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska; it’s one of 16 United States Postal Service stamps that celebrated the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service this summer. Bean was honored at a ceremony in Gustavus, Alaska, on the first day of the stamp’s issue.

Bean’s first job after graduating from Iowa State was with the National Park Service, working summers as a seasonal rangernaturalist at Wind Cave National Park in the Black Hills of South Dakota. It was there he developed an interest in photography. By 1976, Bean was offered a job as a professional

photographer, shooting photos at Grand Canyon National Park. That same year, he was offered a summer ranger job at Glacier Bay National Park. He spent five summers at Glacier Bay, and one at Denali National Park.

He returned to Glacier Bay in 1987 as

 Breaking Badwater

In late July, Pete Kostelnick (’09 finance / international business) won the 2016 Badwater 135, one of the toughest foot races in the world. Kostelnick certainly knew what he was in for, given that he also won the 2015 race, which begins in Death Valley and ends 135 miles later at Mount Whitney.

The course covers three mountain ranges for a total of 14,600 feet of vertical ascent (and 6,100 feet of descent). Kostelnick finished the race in 21 hours 56 minutes and 32 seconds, besting the previous record by a full hour. When he’s not running, Kostelnick is a financial analyst at a healthcare market research firm in Lincoln, Neb. He’s married to Iowa Stater Nicole Larson (’11 chemical engineering), who is also a runner.  Cinderly: A high-tech fairy

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alumni – helps you answer the age-old question, “Does this outfit look good on me?” The app has gained considerable buzz in the tech world since it was named one of the top startups to watch by Media Post. Luke Stoffel (’00 interdisciplinary studies) and Cyndi Gryte (’00 performing arts) created the app, which uses data to create a customized newsfeed of fashionistas who share the user’s dress size, in order to learn which clothes and brands look best on them.  Broadway bound

Talk about a breakout moment: Joseph Smith (’14 performing arts), who just graduated from Iowa State in August, has written and produced his own musical for an Aug. 14 world premiere. In New York City. The Marion, Iowa, native based the musical on the disappearance of

a photographer for the National Geographic Society. The photo used on the stamp was taken while he was on a kayak trip there in July 1987.

“We were camped at Reid Inlet, where a beautiful sunset reflected in the still waters as this iceberg floated slowly past our campsite,” Bean said.

“This photo did not make it into the final edit of the book project I was working on for National Geographic, but it has always been one of my favorite images from that assignment. I’m so pleased it has been selected for this postage stamp that commemorates the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service.”

Natalee Holloway while on a trip to Aruba.

Her body was never found, and the case remains unsolved.

Smith received a focus grant during his senior year at Iowa State to write and produce a stage reading of “Holloway.”

From that reading on campus last spring, he gathered feedback and rewrote some of the show in anticipation of its New York premiere at Feinstein’s/54 Below.

“This is my first show. Generally your first show right out of the gate, you don’t expect it to get as far as I think this has already,” he told the Des Moines Register back in April. “There’s great buzz with this story and maybe [it will] go to off-Broadway somewhere. But Broadway…that’s always the goal.”  Global science institutes

Bhanu Jena (PhD ’88 zoology), a Wayne State University School of Medicine distinguished professor of physiology known for his pioneering discovery of a cellular structure called the porosome, will aid in the development of a new university to be built in India’s eastern state of Odisha. Professor Jena has been invited to help establish the $150 million Asian & Korean Institute of Nano Science, and he is also currently involved in the establishment of similar institutes in Israel, Republic of Georgia, Romania, and India.

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Emily Fifield (’08 Spanish/international studies) has an ongoing project with the Ñaña knitting collective in Peru, a project that brings together indigenous women to work for living wages. Fifield has spearheaded the project since she studied abroad in South America as a student at Iowa State and couldn’t shake the memory of the women and their inability to earn a quality living.

Since then, she has returned for part of each year to help them and also works with clothing shops in the U.S. to sell the items through her wholesale apparel business, Chiri. Items include baby alpaca sweaters and accessories.

“I’m always amazed at how well the traditional artisan work has been maintained and handed down through the generations and how varied the different traditions are by region,” she said. “It really is an amazing country.”

Fifield recently completed an MBA at Colorado State and moved to Swindon, England.

TOP JOBS

• X.J. Meng (PhD ’95 microbiology, immunology & prev. med.), University Distinguished Professor of Molecular Virology at Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, Va., has been elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Meng, a virologist in the Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, is one of 84 new members and 21 foreign associates from 14 countries recognized for their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.

• The American Seed Trade Association has honored seed-industry veteran Owen J. Newlin (L)(’51 agronomy, MS ’53) with its inaugural Lifetime Industry Achievement Award, which will now be known as the Owen J. Newlin Lifetime Seed Industry Achievement Award. The award recognizes exceptional professionals whose career contributions to the seed industry span more than 50 years.

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• Sally Beisser (L) (’71 elementary education, MS ’77 guidance & counseling, PhD ’99), professor of education at Drake University, received two prestigious awards this year. The first award – the Ronald Troyer Research Fellowship – was established to recognize both scholarly accomplishment and future promise. Beisser has the distinction of being the first woman and the first faculty member from the School of Education to receive this award. The fellowship will advance her current research on early childhood practice in gifted education. The second award, the Madelyn M. Levitt Teacher of the Year award, was established to recognize faculty who “exhibit an informed mind in inspirational dialogue with students, rigor in intellectual endeavors, and a contagious enthusiasm for their subject matter.”

Beisser is an ISU Foundation Governor, has served on the ISU College of Human Sciences Advisory Board, and provides an annual Sally Rapp Beisser ServiceLearning Award.

Hospitals, long-term care facilities and schools across the United States and in many foreign countries use the Simplified Diet Manual to assist them in planning nutritious, appealing, and cost-effective meals that are modified to meet the dietary requirements of individuals with special health needs.

Revisions and additions to the twelfth edition of the Simplified Diet Manual include: • Updated Guidelines for Diet Planning based on the 2015–2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans • Access to 20 patient education handouts that coordinate with selected therapeutic diets in the manual available at http://eatrightiowa.org/simplifieddiet/ • Revision of the Consistency Altered Diets and addition of the Dysphagia Diet • Revision of the Sodium Restricted Diets • Revision of the Fat Modified Diets • Expansion of Food Allergies and Intolerances into a chapter with the addition of the Low FODMAP Diet and Wheat Allergy Guidelines • Addition of the Low Protein Modified Renal Diet • Addition of the Halal Diet • Addition of Vitamin K and Prothrombin Time • Addition of Nutrition Guidelines for Gout • Inclusion of updated Study Guide Questions at the end of each chapter for training foodservice employees • Inclusion of Choose Your Foods, Food Lists for Diabetes (© 2014 Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, American Diabetes Association)

PRAISE FROM USERS OF THE SIMPLIFIED DIET MANUAL

“The Simplified Diet Manual is an excellent resource for healthcare professionals.

The Simplified Diet Manual includes current, scientifically based nutrition guidelines presented in a practical manner to maximize nutrition outcomes.”

—Cathy Mehmert, RD, LD, CDE, Clinical Dietitian, Fort Madison Community Hospital “Kudos for keeping this wonderful resource current, easy to reference and clinically sound! We as CDM’s refer to this manual often as well as train our dietary staff to consult this book to ensure we are following the diets correctly! Thank you for supplying the Simplified Diet Manual, it is a great tool that meets our Iowa regulatory compliance and general nutritional knowledge needs!”

—Barbara Thomsen, CDM, CFPP, Iowa Association of Nutrition & Foodservice Professionals Spokesperson

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• Camie Gunderson (A)(’85 hotel & restaurant management) has recently been promoted to regional director of operations for Wyndham Worldwide.

Gunderson is one of the top-ranking women in the company.

ALUMNI HONORS

• The National Academy of Public Administration in May celebrated the contribution of federal career leaders with the naming of the Dwight Ink Fellows’ Hall in Washington, D.C. Ink (A)(’47 government & history) has held major leadership roles in the federal government for the administrations of seven U.S. presidents, from Eisenhower to Reagan. “I am overwhelmed by this recognition,” Ink said. “Contrary to the negative image of a government ‘bureaucrat,’ I have found work in government at all levels to be the most challenging, exciting, and fulfilling of any field I can imagine.” Ink was featured in the 2011-14 VISIONS Across America project.

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• Lauren Damme (’05 marketing) is among 10 federal government officials who will begin a year-long Mike Mansfield Fellowship Program in Japan this year.

Damme currently serves as international relations officer for the Monitoring and Evaluation Division of the Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor and Human

Trafficking in the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of International Labor Affairs. She is among 140 Fellows – representing 27 U.S. government agencies, commissions, and the U.S. Congress – to enter the fellowship program since it was established by Congress in 1994. Damme began her fellowship this summer with a seven-week homestay and language training in Ishikawa Prefecture, followed by 10 months of practical experience in a Japanese government agency or ministry in Tokyo.

ALUMNI BOOKSHELF

• Madan Arora (A)(MS ’68 civil engineering, PhD ’70) has recently published two books.

Turning Sewage Into Reusable Water, written for laypersons and non-wastewater professionals, deals with wastewater treatment and the future of water reuse. Her second book, Happiness Comes From Small Things, offers a few simple and easy-to-practice ideas to be happy.

• Paula Watkins (L)(’81 dietetics and community nutrition) is the editor of the Iowa Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics’ 12th edition of the Simplified Diet Manual. The manual is used by health care facilities to assist in planning meals modified to meet current science-based diet recommendations for individuals with special health needs. Monica Lursen (L)(’72 dietetics), executive director of the Iowa Academy, has served as project manager for this publication; a number of Iowa Academy members who contributed their expertise to various book chapters are also alumni of Iowa State.

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• Sara Marcketti (A) (PhD ’05 textiles & clothing) recently published the book Knock It Off: A History of Design Piracy in the U.S. Women’s Ready-to-Wear Apparel Industry. The book, co-authored by Jean Parsons, sheds light on arguments both for and against design piracy.

Marcketti is an ISU professor in apparel, events, and hospitality management and is associate director of the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching.

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Hands-on history

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History major Dan Gavin gains career experience working at the Farm House Museum.

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ost students interact with Iowa State history by passing by a Christian Petersen sculpture or listening to the bells of the Campanile. Dan Gavin, on the other hand, integrates it into his daily routine.

“At the Farm House Museum, I welcome guests and help them step back in time by telling stories and making connections to our lives today,” he said. Gavin’s position as the Wayne and Eleanor Ostendorf Farm House Museum student assistant gave him a unique look into Iowa State’s past. “Our university’s history is extremely rich. It includes many individuals who made valuable contributions to the school and whose effects we can still see today.”

Gavin has a unique way of making the museum come to life. One of his favorite artifacts in the museum is a teapot, painted

by Etta Mae Budd – the same woman who convinced George Washington Carver to pursue a career in science at Iowa State.

Yet, his favorite memory goes all the way back to his first day on the job. “I will always remember the first tour I gave. Their enthusiasm for the stories I was telling gave me a lot of confidence that I know has shaped my experience working at the museum in such a positive way,” he said.

It makes sense that Gavin has such a knack for history – it’s what he chose to major in at Iowa State. “After I graduate, I will be working in secondary education as a history teacher. Ten years from now, I want to work toward becoming a member of administration within a school or district so I can make a large impact on how teachers teach and students learn,” he said. “My goal is to become the principal for a high school or middle school, where I will focus on creating an educational environment that supports community and shared learning.

“I always knew I would have a job in college, but I never thought I’d have one that was this fun or related to my area of study,” Gavin said. “Working in the Farm House Museum has allowed me to grow in skills I didn’t expect I could refine so early. Since day one, this job has been about so much more than a paycheck.” 

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Cyclones are everywhere!

Dear Iowa Staters: We are everywhere.

How do I know this? Well, I test for it every time I travel, as I work to connect with Iowa Staters – alumni, students and friends.

As a result of these tests, many of you have introduced yourselves to me during my travels. You have shown me your Cyclone pride, by joining me for a meal or discussing your (or your family’s) Iowa State adventures.

Most of these encounters didn't happen because you knew me or my role at Iowa State. My most visible connection to ISU while traveling is my Iowa State duffle bag that I carry on all my trips. (Thanks, Julie Voss, of the ISU basketball office, for giving me this walking Iowa State billboard!) When you are sporting your ISU pride on your sleeve, jacket, or anywhere, it is amazing the connections you make.

So I thought I’d use my column in this issue to reveal our current alumni numbers to you by state. (For international alumni, go to www.isualum. org/alumniandmembers to see how many other Iowa Staters reside in your country.) You may be surprised to see how many alumni live in your home state or country, or how many alumni live in the state or country in which you currently reside. (You can also check to see how many live in the state or country to which you are moving or in which you eventually plan to retire!)

I also encourage you to go to our Online Alumni Directory at www.isualum.org/ directory. As one of your many great member benefits, the Online Alumni Directory is a great tool to help you discover Iowa State alumni living in your community, working at the same place you work, or who graduated in your major or graduation year. I hope you can use this information to make connections with fellow Iowa Staters in your area.

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employment, and help us welcome new graduates moving to your area.

“You may be surprised to see how many alumni live in your home state or country, or how many alumni live in the state or country in which you currently reside.” information, I also hope you will consider doing the following three things: 1. Wear your Cyclone gear with pride, especially when you travel. You never know who you will meet!

2. Consider taking a trip with your fellow Iowa Staters – the Traveling Cyclones – and continue your lifelong Iowa State adventure. A guide to our 2017 travel adventures is located at www.isualum.org/travel. The Grand Cuban Voyage might be calling to you!

3. Connect with other Iowa State alumni in your community through your local club group or place of

I’m so blessed that I get to facilitate the lifetime connection of alumni, students, and friends with Iowa State University and each other. Thank you for your membership. And let’s celebrate our Cyclone pride as we work together to increase our university’s visibility and the personal interactions we get to have with each other!

Yours for Iowa State,

Jeff Johnson Talbot Endowed President and CEO PhD ’14 Education P.S. On my recent travels to San Francisco and New York, with stops in Dallas and Charlotte, I started giving “Cytations” to folks who were wearing, talking about, or showcasing their pride in Iowa State.

I hope to “Cyte” you during my next travel adventure!

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Meet a few of our Cyclone-friendly Business Members (of the ISUAA): 2 AM Karaoke Ames, Iowa 23Twenty Lincoln Ames, Iowa Accord Architecture Company / Henkel Construction Ames, Iowa AES Corporation Cedar Rapids, Iowa America’s Best Apparel, Inc. West Des Moines, Iowa Ames Chamber of Commerce Ames, Iowa Ames Convention & Visitors Buraeu Ames, Iowa Ankeny Chamber of Commerce Ankeny, Iowa

Audi, Acura, Volkswagen of Des Moines Des Moines, Iowa Bank of America Bankers Trust, Ames and Des Moines Ames, Iowa and Des Moines, Iowa

Burgie’s Coffee & Tea Ames, Iowa Chitty Garbage Service Ames, Iowa Chocolaterie Stam Ames, Iowa City of Ames Ames, Iowa

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MAKING THE RIGHT PLAY

New Cyclone football coach Matt Campbell says Iowa State is his perfect match

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man doesn’t spend his 36th birthday being named a Big 12 head football coach because he marches to the same drum as everyone else. That kind of thing doesn’t happen because you’re someone who follows or who settles.

It happens when you’re Matt Campbell – raised by passionate educators, infatuated with the “ultimate team sport,” and confident in your values, instincts, and abilities. It happens when you’ve spent your career surrounded by great people in places that aspire to do great things.

Campbell’s alma mater, the University of Mount Union, is just such a place. Nestled in the northeastern Ohio town of Alliance, 32 miles from Campbell’s hometown of Massillon, the private liberal arts college is best known for one thing: winning Division III national football championships. In three years on the Mount Union football squad Campbell never lost a game, helping legendary coach Larry Kehres earn three of the Purple Raiders’ celebrated crowns. It was the experience of a lifetime for Campbell, who relished every moment.

The academic All-American learned a lot at Mount Union — most notably, perhaps, he learned about great people.

Kehres inspired him to become a college football coach. Campbell forged strong relationships with his teammates, including Tom Manning – now his offensive coordinator – and Jason Candle, his former assistant who took over as head coach at Toledo this year. And he came to understand that the strength of any team lies in its people – not just those on the squad, but also those around it.

Campbell built a winning football program in four seasons at Toledo by building relationships, promoting coaches from within, and earning distinction as a top recruiter. In the cold days after 52

his Rockets narrowly lost a division championship last November, Campbell was at his desk with his head down, continuing to focus on building the Toledo program and largely ignoring the coaching carousel that swirled around him. It was his wife, Erica, who finally tapped him on his shoulder and pointed out that hey, major programs saw what he had done and were inquiring about his services. He at least owed them a response.

Campbell didn’t think he was interested, he says, until one job caught his eye: at a place that didn’t have 12 national championship trophies in its case but which he’d seen first-hand as a visiting

coach and been awed by. He accepted an interview and quickly fell deeper in love with the idea of coaching at Iowa State University. On Nov. 29, 2015, the job was officially his – and he hasn’t looked back.

“You win with people,” Campbell says, looking out over a sunlit Jack Trice Stadium from his office in ISU’s Bergstrom Football Complex after six months on the job, “and you’re gonna win with people here. The loyalty of this fan base has never dwindled; it’s what motivates you to come here and not let those people down. What makes this program really unique and different is that it’s not just us, it’s everybody’s team. It’s our job to represent that day in and day out, week in and week out, FALL 2016 WWW.ISUALUM.ORG VISIONS

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“I think the culture on our

campus is great, and it’s our job to create that matching culture within the walls of the football program to the point where student-athletes come in here and say, ‘Wow, they’ve got something special going on here. I want to be a part of that.’”

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as we continue to build.”

Embracing Iowa State’s past is, for Campbell, paramount. In a program that – like him – has never been about “I,” he knows cultivating relationships is the key to building the future. One of the first things Campbell did at Iowa State was place what he thought might be a quick, 10-minute phone call to Dan McCarney (L), a 2016 ISU Hall-of-Fame inductee who guided the Cyclones to new heights between 1995-2006.

“It was an hour and a half conversation,” Campbell remembers. “I hung up the phone being so glad I made the call.

His energy and his pride reenergized me to say ‘I made the right decision coming here.’ He’s got the same vision and pride, to this day.”

Those are the kinds of people Campbell wants to be around. He loved his time at Toledo, but admits it was disappointing to see only 5,000 fans cheering his team in the rain as it contended for a division title last year.

That’s the kind of thing, he says, that would never happen at Iowa State. And it’s something he’s not sure the Cyclone faithful realize is so special about them.

“Going on the Cyclone Tailgate Tour this summer and meeting people and realizing that there are people who drive three hours to a basketball game on a Tuesday night, drive three hours back, and go to work the next day? That just doesn’t happen in probably 99 percent of the places across the country,” Campbell says. “That’s unique, that’s different. That’s a community you want to give back to.”

As he begins his first season at the helm of the Cyclone program, Campbell’s confidence has already infected top recruits from across the country. ISU’s 2017 recruiting class is rated higher than any before it.

“Getting parents and players on our campus and seeing the academic support services we have here – and the

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majors like engineering and business, those are big game-changers for us,” says Campbell, who says high academic standards are a pillar of the culture he wants to create in any football program he leads. “I think the culture on our campus is great, and it’s our job to create that matching culture within the walls of the football program to the point where student-athletes come in here and say, ‘Wow, they’ve got something special going on here. I want to be a part of that.’”

Campbell’s coaching philosophy is grounded in his belief in the importance of education. As a player, he says he saw people waste their college opportunity. He doesn’t want that to happen to the young men he coaches. And he won’t compromise on his values or his expectations; he’s not afraid to move on if a player doesn’t reciprocate his level of commitment – that isn’t a teaching moment, Campbell says, nor is it a recipe for winning football.

“It’s still about football, and winning football is really important,” Campbell says, “but it’s also about building young men and letting them leave your program as people who will someday be great leaders of society. It’s a lot bigger than just the game of football.”

And, Campbell says, young men who don’t compromise off the field won’t compromise on it, either.

“I’m not [necessarily] looking for a 4.0 student,” he says. “I’m looking for young men who value getting an education and are going to work as hard as they can to be as good as they can be. Those are the guys who, when it gets hard in a game or when it’s really cold late in the season, you can trust to stand up and make the right play.” 

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Calendar  Alumni Events

 Career resources

Sept. 13: Celebrate State event in Houston Sept. 16: Celebrate State event in Dallas Sept. 17: ISUAA tailgate in Ft. Worth, Texas

Sept. 20: Engineering Career Fair Sept. 21: Business, Industry & Technology Career Fair Sept. 21: People to People Career Fair Oct. 11: College of Agriculture & Life Sciences Fall Career Day

 On campus & in the

Oct. 23-29: Homecoming Oct. 28: ISU 50th Reunion (classes of 1965 & 1966) Oct. 28: Greek Alumni Reunion Oct. 28-29: Alumni Band Reunion Oct. 29: Department of Food Science & Human Nutrition Homecoming Tailgate Dec. 17: Big 4 Classic spirit gathering in Des Moines

Ames Community

Oct. 21-22: Science Bound 25th Anniversary events Oct. 23: Homecoming parade, downtown Ames Oct. 28: Homecoming ExCYtement in the Streets, Mass Campaniling & Fireworks, central campus Dec. 2: Memorial Union Winterfest Dec. 17: Commencement

 Cyclone Athletics

Gala SAVE THE DATE: Feb. 10: Cardinal & Gold Gala, Des Moines

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Sept. 17: Cyclone football at TCU Sept. 24: Cyclone football vs. San Jose State Oct. 1: Cyclone football vs. Baylor Oct. 8: Cyclone football at Oklahoma State Oct. 15: Cyclone football at Texas Oct. 29: Cyclone football vs. Kansas State (Homecoming) Nov. 3: Cyclone football vs. Oklahoma Nov. 12: Cyclone football at Kansas Nov. 19: Cyclone football vs. Texas Tech Nov. 26: Cyclone football vs. West Virginia Dec. 17: Big 4 Classic men’s basketball, Wells Fargo Arena, Des Moines For all Cyclone sports schedules, go to www.cyclones.com

Sept. 24: Cyclone Central tailgate Oct. 1: Cyclone Central tailgate Oct. 27: ISUAA Board of Directors fall meeting Oct. 27: ISUAA Young Alumni Council fall meeting Oct. 28: Homecoming Pep Rally Oct. 29: Homecoming Cyclone Central tailgate & silent auction Nov. 3: Cyclone Central tailgate Nov. 7: “Rock On” in Retirement Symposium Nov. 19: Cyclone Central tailgate Nov. 26: Cyclone Central tailgate Dec. 17: Graduation Reception

 Alumni travel To see where in the world the Traveling Cyclones will be going in 2017, go to www.isualum.org/travel

 Lifelong learning Sept. 12: OLLI at ISU fall classes begin Dec. 8: OLLI at ISU winter open house Jan. 10: OLLI at ISU winter classes begin

Through Jan. 6: Memories from the Fields: The Landscapes of Gary Ernest Smith, Brunnier Art Museum Through Jan. 6: Inspired By: Faculty Responses to the Permanent Collection, Brunnier Art Museum Through July 2017: Challenging Taste: Art Nouveau in the Decorative Arts, Brunnier Art Museum Through July 2017: Decidedly Collectable: States Patterns in the Iowa Quester Glass Collection, Brunnier Art Museum Oct. 6: Artist-in-Residence Korean pianist Ji, Recital Hall Oct. 10: Once, Stephens Oct. 14: Gordon Lightfoot, Stephens Oct. 18: Capitol Steps, Stephens Oct. 19: Peppa Pig LIVE!, Stephens Oct. 25: Havana Cuba All-Stars, Stephens Oct. 26: Widespread Panic, Stephens Oct. 27: Kristine Heykants art exhibit, Memorial Union (through Jan. 31) Oct. 30: John Mellencamp, Stephens Nov. 5: Under the Streetlamp, Stephens Nov. 13: The Brian Setzer Orchestra’s 13th Annual Christmas Rocks! Tour, Stephens Dec. 1: Cirque Dreams Holidaze, Stephens

 Awards Oct. 28: Homecoming Honors & Awards Luncheon & Ceremony Dec. 1: Nomination deadline for Wallace E. Barron Award, Faculty-Staff Inspiration Award, & STATEment Makers recognition* *For criteria and to submit a nomination for ISUAA awards: www.isualum.org/awards

 Find more events online Campus Calendar: http://event.iastate.edu/ ISU Alumni Association: www.isualum.org/calendar Cyclone Athletics: www.cyclones.com Department of Music and ISU Theatre: www.las.iastate.edu/newnews/arts/isuarts. shtml Reiman Gardens: www.reimangardens.com Iowa State Center: www.center.iastate.edu University Museums: www.museums.iastate.edu Lectures: www.lectures.iastate.edu/ Homecoming: www.isualum.org/homecoming

 Arts and entertainment Through Dec. 16: Elements of Wonder: The Public Art of Norie Sato, Christian Petersen Art Museum

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