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Iowa State University
A broad-based international university of 25, 000 students from every state in the United States and more than 100 other nations ...A member of the prestigious Association of American Universities and one of the world's leading research universities in the biological and physical sciences ...A cultural and entertainment center for Iowa ...A campus that features more than 200 works of art by such internationally acclaimed artists as Grant Wood and Christian Petersen ...A member of the Big 12, one of the nation's leading intercollegiate athletic conferences ...Iowa State University is all of these ... and much more.
Located in Ames, Iowa, just 30 minutes north of Des Moines, Iowa State is the nation's oldest land-grant university. Its park-like campus covers nearly 2,000 acres and includes 154 buildings, many of which are on the National Register of Historic Places.
Iowa State has made significant contributions to the development of the United States and the world. Its graduates include George Washington Carver, one of the nation's most distinguished educators and plant scientists; Carrie Chapman Catt, a leader in the women's suffrage movement; and John Vincent Atanasoff, who, as a faculty member at Iowa State, invented the electronic digital computer. Iowa State is also where two key parts of the land-grant university mission were born - the Cooperative Extension Service and Agriculture Experiment Station system.
The hallmark of the land-grant mission is service - through education, research and outreach. Today, Iowa State is leading a national effort to revitalize and modernize this mission of service for the 21st century, and has set as its aspiration to become the best land-grant university in the nation.
For further information, please contact:
Recruitment Services
3820 Beardshear Hall
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011
Phone: 515-294-2937
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