CATEGORIES: Research
New grant to help chart corn genomes, better understand traits
Matthew Hufford, assistant professor of ecology, evolution and organismal biology, will contribute to a new effort to sequence the genomes of 26 lines of corn.
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CATEGORIES: Research
Iowa State University researchers receive EPA grant to study harmful algal blooms in Iowa lakes
Elizabeth Swanner, assistant professor of geological and atmospheric sciences, will help develop new tools to predict and combat harmful algal blooms, a growing threat to human and animal health in Iowa’s lakes.
Millennials will soon dethrone boomers as largest voting bloc
Dave Andersen, an assistant professor of political science, sees a significant political shift on the horizon as millennials surpass baby boomers as the largest voting generation.
WHO gaming addiction classification an important step for treatment
Douglas Gentile, professor of psychology, says the WHO’s decision to classify video game addiction as a mental health disorder is an important step in getting people the help they need.
Lecture on food and the Great Depression to air on American History TV
Pamela Riney-Kehrberg, professor of history, shares stories from her research and interviews with people who lived during the Depression.
Corn genetics provides insight into the crop’s historical spread across the Americas
Evolutionary bottlenecks brought on by domestication have caused the genome of corn to retain harmful mutations over the course of millennia.
Science Bound served as the springboard for biology grad’s adventure
First-generation Iowa State graduate Grace Ansah fell in love with biology, and plans to go to medical school — with a side trip to her family’s homeland in Ghana first.
Adversity pushes Iowa State senior to find new direction in pursuit of degree
A conversation in a bowling alley helped Nik Heftman land a job with CBS News in New York. For a guy who faced his share of obstacles to earn a degree, he felt his hard work had finally paid off.
Chemist studying electric fields, microfluidics to improve dialysis technology
Robbyn Annand’s research may one day enable a wearable, artificial kidney, and that could benefit her brother, who depends on today’s big and heavy dialysis equipment.