Iowa State University News

It's been a record-setting couple of years for Burlington residents. The year 2008 saw the highest crests on record flowing down the Mississippi.

Once a week at this booth at a campus community center, the PhD student who spends most of her time researching the nutritional traits of corn takes questions and occasional abuse while trying to raise the profile of religious skepticism.

After three years and $30 million, U.S. scientists have finished mapping the complete genome sequence of corn, the most widely eaten cereal after rice.

Former Iowa State University wrestling coach Jim Gibbons is entering the political arena with a run for the Republican nomination in Iowa's 3rd congressional district.

Donald Hartvigsen, 94, beloved husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather, passed away on November 18, 2009, in St.

Weeks after a cat in Iowa was diagnosed with swine flu, veterinarians in the Charleston area are keeping their eyes open for any signs of the virus in local pets.

A popular Iowa State Senator and and a former Iowa State University wrestling coach could pose significant challenges to Democrat Leonard Boswell's Third District Congressional seat.

Trouble is brewing in Mason City, the model for "River City" in " The Music Man ." It's scary enough that the Iowa State University Center for Agricultural Law and Tax School here today -- with me, the IRS, Roger McEowen and 160 hard-partying accountants ready to wreak their customary mayhem in the town's tattoo parlors and karaoke bars.

A Des Moines attorney involved in many prominent criminal trials over the past six decades has died.

A judge in Story County has found the former director of the Iowa State University Engineering Communications and Marketing Department guilty of stealing more than $10,000 from the university.

The first documented case of H1N1 influenza in a cat was confirmed Nov. 4 at Iowa State University's veterinary college.

Pets can contract the H1N1, or Swine Flu, according to Dr. Louise Murray, Director of Medicine at the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

Rep. Ron Paul talked nothing of White House ambitions past or present, though that was clearly on the minds of his audience.

Iowa's corn harvest this year will still be a record, but not quite as big as was forecast a month ago, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Tuesday.

A 14-year-old black cat in Park City has contracted the swine flu, a veterinarian told The Park Record Friday.

When environmental watchdogs in Iowa point out the dangers associated with coal ash disposal , the focus of their fear is usually the health risks associated with contaminated groundwater.

The Des Moines man accused of shooting and killing his estranged wife, and then shooting a police officer during a standoff, appeared in court Thursday.

Federal stimulus for Medicaid has boosted jobs and incomes in Iowa while meeting the immediate health needs of vulnerable Iowans enduring a recession, researchers with the Iowa Fiscal Partnership reported today.

Rep. Ron Paul seems to harbor few regrets about his 2008 campaign for president and even fewer thoughts about prospects for 2012.

The fact that a single cat came down with the H1N1 is fascinating to scientists, veterinary infectious disease researchers and human virologists, but is this truly significant at all? Here's what happened: A 13-year old cat in Iowa that was acting lethargic, not eating and having trouble breathing was tested for H1N1 because two of the three people ...