Innovative Solutions

Three Projects Selected for Funding from Fall Sustainability Innovation RIR
The fall 2024 Research and Innovation Roundtable (RIR) resulted in three projects being selected for seed funding support from the Office of the President. All… Read More

Jan 22, 2025
Engineers Develop General, High-speed Technology to Model, Understand Catalytic Reactions
This illustration shows how artificial intelligence technology — the robot — examines a chemical reaction: From right to left, nitrogen (red) and hydrogen (yellow), with… Read More

Aug 14, 2024
Growing Losses from PRRS Cost Pork Producers $1.2 Billion Per Year, New Study Shows
Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome is the most economically damaging illness for swine producers, causing $1.2 billion in annual production loss from 2016 to 2020. Read More

Jul 30, 2024
ISU Studies Explore Win-win Potential of Grass-powered Energy Production
An anaerobic digester used by the city of Ames’ Water Pollution Control Facility. One of two recent feasibility studies by an Iowa State University research… Read More

Jul 29, 2024
Iowa State Research Sets Funding Record; Total External Funding Increases to $544.6 Million
Jacie Legois, left to right, a horticulture student intern; Ajay Nair, professor and chair of horticulture; and Ray Wilmes, a horticulture graduate student, plant bell… Read More

Jul 24, 2024
Iowa State Sets New Record for Research Funding: $346.2 Million in FY24
This past September, Iowa State received a four-year, $14 million grant from the National Science Foundation to design and plan a new state-of-the art facility… Read More

Jul 16, 2024
Iowa State Researchers Receive Record-Breaking NSF CAREER Award Support
Thirteen Iowa State University researchers have been selected to receive more than $5.5 million in Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) awards from the National Science… Read More

Jul 15, 2024
Receptors Make Dairy Cows a Prime Target for Influenza, ISU Team Finds
Microscope images of mammary gland tissue taken from a dairy cow infected with highly pathogenic avian influenza are magnified by 200 times on the left… Read More

Jul 9, 2024
Iowa State Researchers Receive 2024 Bridging the Divide Grant to Address Textile Waste
Associate professor of fashion design and merchandising Rachel Eike (left) and assistant professor of art and visual culture Raluca Iancu, who have received the… Read More

Jun 19, 2024
‘We Want to be Prepared’: ISU Develops Test for Japanese Encephalitis Virus
Phillip Gauger, left, and Rahul Nelli in a laboratory in the Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory. Photo by Christopher Gannon/Iowa State University. When porcine epidemic diarrhea virus struck… Read More

Jun 4, 2024