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Steve Martin: In pursuit of nearly perfect battery materials, performance

Iowa State University's Steve Martin has answers about the state of his work with batteries and glassy materials. Martin won a major, international award earlier this year that recognizes his engineering achievements.

Classroom solution evolves into public resource for navigating AI tools

As artificial intelligence tools evolve at a rapid pace, an Iowa State computer science professor and her students are developing a public website that tracks new AI releases and helps users make sense of the fast-changing technology.

Free training focuses on maintaining essential services during a cyberattack

Iowa State University is leading a statewide initiative that offers free training exercises for city administrators, county officials and school leaders. The goal of the exercise is to identify services that depend on technology and create an action plan to limit disruption to daily operations following a cyberattack.

Antenna-like cell appendage linked to turtles’ sex-deciding warmth-sensing

A new study led by an Iowa State University evolutionary biologist suggests an antenna-like cellular sensor that’s a growing focus in human health could play a central role in how turtles become male or female, which in most species is based on incubation temperature.

Iowa State’s rich history comes to life at Iowa State Fair

Iowa State University’s exhibit at the 2026 Iowa State Fair will showcase the university’s past, present and future through the theme “Iowa State University, Then.Now.Next."

Book explores changes in attitudes and assumptions about crime

A new book by criminologists Matt DeLisi and Matt Logan examines how changing attitudes and assumptions have influenced public thinking about crime, highlighting a gap between perception and research on chronic offending. This "criminal naïveté," they write, shapes debates on safety, accountability and criminal‑justice policy.

Students ticking boxes, taking steps toward semiconductor workforce

Seven students from across Iowa spent six weeks of their summer learning to design, build and test their own microelectronic devices. Iowa State's semiconductor workshop is part of a year-long effort to help build a workforce that understands semiconductors and AI hardware.

Several Iowa State research projects selected for U.S. Department of Energy Genesis Mission

Iowa State University is the lead institution in four research projects and university faculty are collaborators on four additional projects that are part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s sweeping Genesis Mission. The awards were announced July 22 in Washington D.C.

Finding what it takes to make a white blood cell could lead to new cancer treatment

An Iowa State University-led research team identified two essential components — a pervasive protein and a crucial cellular signaling pathway — needed to make some types of blood cells, a discovery that could lead to a new treatment for leukemia.

Iowa State's external funding supports research initiatives, innovation

Iowa State University raised a total of $487.9 million in external funding for the fiscal year that ended June 30. That's an 11.2% drop from the previous year. Part of the decline reflects a drop in federal research support.