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| Name | Iowa State University | | Motto | Science with practice | | Established | 1858 | | Type | Flagship state university
Land-grant
Space-grant | | Endowment | US $475 million | | President | Gregory L. Geoffroy | | Faculty | 1709 | | Students | 29,887 (Fall 2011) | | Under graduates | 24,343 (Fall 2011) | | Post graduates | 4,958 (Fall 2011)
586 veterinary | | City | Ames | | State | Iowa | | Country | United States | | Campus | Urban, 1 | | Nickname | Cyclones | | Colors | | | Mascot | Cy | | Athletics | Big 12
NCAA Division I | | Affiliations | American Association of Universities, Universities Research Association | | Website | iastate.edu |
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Iowa State University of Science and Technology, more commonly known as Iowa State University (ISU), is a public land-grant and space-grant research university located in Ames, Iowa, United States. Iowa State has produced astronauts, scientists, and Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners, along with a host of other notable individuals in their respective fields. Until 1959 it was known as the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.
Founded in 1858 and coeducational from its start, ISU is classified as a Research University with very high research activity (RU/VH) by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The university is a group member of the prestigious American Association of Universities, Universities Research Association, and the Big 12 Conference.
Iowa State is a leader in agriculture, engineering, extension, and home economics, and created the nation's first state veterinary medicine school in 1879. In 1933, Iowa State established the Statistical Laboratory. It was and is the first research and consulting institute of its kind in the country.
History
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| 1856 |
Iowa General Assembly enacts legislation for creation of the State Agricultural College and Model Farm |
| 1859 |
Story County is the chosen county for the State Agricultural College and Model Farm |
| 1860 |
Construction starts on the first building on campus, Farm House |
| 1862 |
Morrill Act of 1862 is passed; college to be named Iowa State Agricultural College |
| 1869 |
First graduating class enters Iowa State |
| 1875 |
The first national fraternity, Delta Tau Delta, opens at Iowa State |
| 1876 |
The university cemetery is opened. One of the very few active cemeteries associated with a university campus in the U.S. |
| 1877 |
The first national sorority, Pi Beta Phi, opens at Iowa State |
| 1879 |
The School of Veterinary Science is formally organized. It's the first of its kind in the United States. |
| 1890 |
Student newspaper Iowa Agricultural College Student is founded. Later to be named the Iowa State Daily |
| 1895 |
Football team nicknamed Cyclones for their performance against Northwestern University |
| 1898 |
The college is divided into "divisions": Agriculture, Engineering, Science and Philosophy, and Veterinary Medicine |
| 1898 |
Renamed the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts |
| 1905 |
First Agricultural Engineering program in the world established |
| 1913 |
The college roads are paved |
| 1922 |
VEISHEA is established |
| 1923 |
Jack Trice is mortally injured during a football game against Minnesota |
| 1933 |
First statistics laboratory in the U.S. is established |
| 1939 |
The Atanasoff � Berry Computer (ABC) is invented. The Atanasoff-Berry Computer was the world's first electronic digital computer. |
| 1945 |
Campus production reaches 2 million pounds of high-purity uranium for Manhattan Project. |
| 1947 |
Ames Laboratory established by U.S. Atomic Energy Commission |
| 1950 |
WOI-TV established as the first commercially operated television station owned by a university in the U.S. Station sold in 1994. |
| 1954 |
Cy becomes the Iowa State mascot |
| 1959 |
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev visits Iowa State |
| 1959 |
10 kW, 150-ton nuclear teaching reactor is built. Reactor decommissioned and removed in 2000. |
| 1959 |
Renamed the Iowa State University of Science and Technology |
| 1959 |
Iowa State's divisions become colleges: the College of Agriculture, College of Engineering, College of Home Economics, College of Sciences and Humanities, and College of Veterinary Medicine |
| 1962 |
Enrollment reaches 10,000 students |
| 1966 |
Enrollment reaches 15,000 students |
| 1968 |
The College of Education is established |
| 1974 |
The Maintenance Shop opens in the Memorial Union |
| 1979 |
The College of Design is established |
| 1984 |
The College of Business is established |
| 1988 |
First VEISHEA Riot |
| 1992 |
Second VEISHEA Riot |
| 1995 |
Reiman Gardens opens |
| 1997 |
Working replica of Atanasoff-Berry Computer is unveiled, goes on nationwide tour |
| 1999 |
Central Campus is listed as a "medallion site" by the American Society of Landscape Architects |
| 2004 |
Third VEISHEA Riot |
| 2005 |
The College of Education and the College of Family and Consumer Sciences are combined to create the College of Human Sciences |
| 2006 |
VEISHEA returns after being canceled for 2005; is deemed a huge success |
| 2007 |
ISU's year long Sesquicentennial celebration is kicked off at VEISHEA 2007 with a 20,000-piece birthday cake |
| 2008 |
Sesquicentennial of Iowa State |
| 2009 |
25th Anniversary of the College of Business |
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