Biochar. (It’s a charcoal-like co-product of heating biomass to produce bio-oil or synthesis gas, both renewable, alternative fuels. Several Iowa companies are creating the fuels and biochar, which ...

Iowa State's Santosh Pandey, shown outside a laboratory at the university's Microelectronics Research Center, is leading an effort to recruit and train students for work in the U.S. semiconductor chip ...

The Iowa State University Research Park received the Distinguished Community of Innovation of the Year award from the Association of University Research Parks. The award, presented on Nov. 13, ...

With strong growth in first-year students and record first-year retention, Iowa State enrollment is up for the third consecutive year. AMES, Iowa – For the third consecutive year, enrollment at Iowa ...

Injecting bio-oil made from corn stalks and forest debris into the deep shafts of abandoned crude oil wells could be a viable form of carbon sequestration, a new Iowa State University study found.

BioMADE is partnering with the ISU Research Park and Iowa State University on a collaborative initiative to install a bioindustrial manufacturing scale-up facility at ISU’s BioCentury Research Farm. A ...

Education changes more than a person’s resume – it also shifts their individual opportunities, timelines and expectations. Photo: Adobe Stock Images. AMES, Iowa – In recent decades, a curious trend in ...

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 ...

Sociology professor David Peters, from left, with undergraduate student researchers Emily Meyer and Emma Bartling. Photo by Christopher Gannon/Iowa State University. AMES, Iowa – Growing up on her ...

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 ...

Iowa State engineers and leaders of the university's Translational AI Center, left to right, Baskar Ganapathysubramanian, Adarsh Krishnamurthy and Soumik Sarkar are developing "digital twins" as ...

A field planted with cereal rye, one of the most common cover crops in Iowa. Photo by Ally Larson/Iowa State University. AMES, Iowa – Planting ground cover in fields between cash crop growing seasons ...