Jianming Yu The study was based on data from the Sorghum Association Panel, a collection of 400 types of sorghum selected to represent the plant’s global variation and genetically sequenced for ...

AMES, Iowa — Iowa State University’s 2025 State Fair exhibit is a celebration of innovation, community and Cyclone pride.

Dowling Catholic High School math teacher Amy Jurasek measuring corn plants in an Iowa State research field southwest of Ames. Photo by Christopher Gannon/Iowa State University. Quick look A summer ...

A lab photo shows a messy pile of charred and burned fragments and powders that were ejected from the battery can. This is ...

Hongqing (Michelle) Guo, an assistant professor of genetics, development and cell biology, uses Arabidopsis thaliana plants to study a gene that controls both growth and survival response. Photo by ...

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 ...

A county-level of map of rural legal deserts. Courtesy of David Peters/Iowa State University. The study, published in the spring edition of the South Dakota Law Review, is among the first efforts to ...

Cantamus returned from its first international concert tour with top honors, three Gold Stamps, at the prestigious Tampere Vocal Festival in Finland. Judges praised the ensemble’s dynamic and ...

Associate professor Hua Bai (left), senior in genetics Wren Muryzn and adjunct assistant professor Ping Kang in Kang's lab inside the Molecular Biology Building. Photo by Christopher Gannon/Iowa State ...

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 ...

The 2025 Innovation at Work series illustrates why Iowa State University is a trusted partner. Through research, teaching, service and extension, Iowa State has a long history of providing proactive ...

The root of a corn plant injured by corn rootworm, the crop's most damaging pest in the Midwest. Photo by Erin Hodgson/Iowa State University. AMES, Iowa – Widespread planting of corn hybrids designed ...