Michigan Native Finds Calling in Ames

Despite growing up hundreds of miles away in Michigan, something about Ames, Iowa always felt like home to Kristine Johansen. As a child, she would eagerly anticipate visits her grandparents’ farm on the outskirts of town, spending time with family – and the animals –...
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Silicon Valley Experience Helps Drive ISU Economic Development

Bill Adamowski isn’t one to back down from a challenge. Since graduating from Syracuse University in the late 1980’s, he has been presented with plenty of “resume building” opportunities in a variety of capacities in organizations large and small. From his work as a...
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Vermeer-ISU Relationship Proves Mutually Beneficial

As an Iowa-based company, Vermeer Manufacturing has always had a close relationship with Iowa State University. And in recent years, that relationship has only grown closer as Vermeer has established a physical presence in Ames, just minutes from where its next...
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Ensoft: Managing the Digital Age

The digital age, with all its complexity, began at Iowa State University in 1942 when ISU physics professor John Atanasoff and assistant Clifford Berry built the “ABC” (Atanasoff Berry Computer), the world’s first digital electronic computer – to save them the trouble...

GlobalVetLINK Named Technology Company of the Year

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Event: GlobalVetLINK Named Technology Company of the Year And the Prometheus Award Goes to . . . Des Moines, Iowa (April 9th, 2014) – GlobalVetLINK (GVL®) was honored at the Prometheus Awards hosted by the Technology Association of Iowa, when the...

Ames among leaders in density of high-tech start-ups in the country

Ames has been ranked among the top cities in the country for having a high-density of high-tech start-up companies. A report released this week by technology policy coalition Engine and entrepreneurship research association the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation placed...