Imagine starting a science-based business: One student’s experience at ISU Startup Factory
If you had $5,000 to design a learning experience for yourself anywhere in the world, what would you do? That’s the question posed to Imagine Fellows at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. For Zach Martin, a senior physics major at the college, the answer was to spend...
Smart Ag gets city, state support for new facility
By Dan Mika, Staff Writer dmika@amestrib.com SmartAg, a startup in the Iowa State Research Park, is planning to move into a new office and development space in the park later this year after securing loans and assistance from the city and the state. The Ames City...
An Innovative Approach to STEM Education
Ames-based startup is changing the game when it comes to introducing engineering to school-aged students Learning to design and build has always been a big part of early education. For centuries, children have been encouraged to explore their imagination with...
TMC Transportation’s Ames interns share summer experiences
TMC’s Ames-based interns Grant Chaney and Juan Sandoval-Duran pose with the TMC-sponsored race car at the NASCAR Xfinity Series U.S. Cellular 250 held at the Iowa Speedway in Newton. By Courtney Biere, ISURP Marketing Intern ISU Research Park tenant company TMC...
Focus on R & D Spurs Growth for Calcium Products
Ames-based provider of organic fertilizer partners with ISU, USDA to perfect product, boost yields For more than three decades, Calcium Products has been perfecting the process of enriching soil to help ensure the seeds farmers put in the ground have the best chance...
Middle Bit: Registration now open for HackISU
By Jake Slobe, Clay & Milk Registration is now open for HackISU, the largest hackathon in the state of Iowa. During the event, hundreds of college students from across the U.S. pack into the Iowa State University Research Park to build and code projects. Students...
Iowa Innovation to hold SBIR/STTR Grant Agency R&D Funding Opportunities Webinar
Join Iowa Innovation and Federal Granting Agency Expert Mark Henry in an overview of SBIR/STTR GRANT Agency R&D Funding Opportunities By Iowa Innovation Statewide SBIR/STTR Coordinator Anne Price at anne@iicorp.com The federal government sets aside nearly $3...
