Tichakorn Wongpiromsarn (above), associate professor of computer science at Iowa State University, has devoted much of her career to the development of autonomous vehicles, both in academia and ...

Drones, robots and sensors make large-scale data collection throughout a growing season feasible, giving crop scientists the capability to discern the timing and duration of genetic effects. Photo ...

The 2026 Innovation at Work series captures how the entrepreneurial spirit has spread across campus and the state helping launch new startups, grow small businesses and develop a future workforce with ...

Ames, Iowa – In a message sent today to the campus community, Iowa State University President Wendy Wintersteen announced her plans to retire in January 2026. Wintersteen became the first woman and ...

AMES, Iowa – Wind turbine blades spinning through cold, wet conditions can collect ice nearly a foot thick on the yard-wide tips of their blades. “But we always have questions about whether what we do ...

AMES, IA – A new study from Iowa State University found men convicted of domestic violence were charged with significantly fewer violent and nonviolent charges one year after completing a treatment ...

AMES, Iowa – If you’ve enjoyed some spicy food lately, you might have a bird to thank. Organisms depend on each other in intricate and often poorly understood ways, Rogers said, meaning the decline of ...

AMES, Iowa — Keeping plants continuously growing on farmland through the winter protects and enriches soil, improves water quality and reduces greenhouse gas emissions. That's why Lisa Schulte Moore, ...

AMES, Iowa – It’s almost like time travel. Iowa State University scientists are learning how to peer back through millennia of domestication to learn how a wild grassy plant known as teosinte ...

Soy pavement technology developed by Iowa State engineers helped fix 24 miles of rural roads in northeast Iowa's Clayton and Fayette counties and the town of Volga. The "soy roads" used 12,000 to ...

Iowa State engineers, left to right, Connor Thorpe and Shan Jiang helped invent the "Flow Guiding Barrel," which improves gene gun performance for the genetic modification of plants. Jiang is holding ...

AMES, Iowa – At the Iowa State University Research Park, even sidewalks are paved with innovation. Nacu Hernandez strolls down a path paved with asphalt just across the road from Iowa State’s Lloyd ...