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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 ...
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]
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 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 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]
This is the 1844 plat for Fort Des Moines, which is two years before Iowa becomes a state (1846), five years before the first edition of the Des Moines Register's predecessor, the Iowa Star, is ...
Iowa became the 29th state in 1846 during James K. Polk's presidency. A year before, a proposed northern border went as far as St. Paul, Minnesota.
Officially formed in 1959, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences got its current name in 1990. It can trace its history back to 1898, when liberal arts and sciences were a part of the school's Division of Science and Philosophy. [1] Since the school's beginning, Iowa State's founders had intended to produce well-rounded students.