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The Iowa State University/Ames YWCA is on the campus grounds, at the Knapp-Storms Commons. [37] The Ames-ISU Student YMCA used to be in the Lab of Mechanics, Room 109. [38] The chapter was established in 1887. It became affiliated with the national YMCA in 1900. Originally in Alumni Hall, [39] it moved to Room 109 in 1993. [40]
Iowa State University of Science and Technology (Iowa State University, Iowa State, or ISU) is a public land-grant research university in Ames, Iowa, United States.Founded in 1858 as the Iowa Agricultural College and Model Farm, Iowa State became one of the nation's first designated land-grant institutions when the Iowa Legislature accepted the provisions of the 1862 Morrill Act on September ...
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In 1972 the university undertook a major restoration of the building to restore it to its c. 1910 appearance. [3] The land for what became Iowa State was donated by Story County farmers in 1858 and 1859, and the farm was developed over the following five years, slowed by the ongoing American Civil War. Iowa Agricultural College opened on the ...
The Enrollment Services Center is a building at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. It houses the Office of Admissions and the Office of the Registrar. In 1978, the building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. [2]
Carver Hall is an academic building completed in 1969 at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, to accommodate rapid increases in enrollment. [1] It is named for George Washington Carver, who earned his bachelor's degree from Iowa State University in 1894 and his master's in 1896 and served on the Iowa State faculty.
The state's oldest post-secondary institution is Loras College, a private Catholic school in Dubuque that was founded in 1839, [2] [3] seven years before Iowa became a state. [ 4 ] The state's only two law schools, the University of Iowa College of Law and Drake University Law School , are both accredited by the American Bar Association . [ 5 ]
The campanile was constructed in 1897 as a memorial to Margaret MacDonald Stanton, Iowa State's first dean of women, who died on July 25, 1895. The tower is located on ISU's central campus, just north of the Memorial Union. The site was selected by Margaret's husband, Edgar W. Stanton, with the help of then-university president William M ...