DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A former Iowa State University employee will get a settlement of more than $27,000 from the state after claiming discrimination in the way the university managed its health...

AMES, Iowa (AP) — A judge has ordered a trial moved for a homeless man accused of killing a former Iowa State University golfer.

Story County court records say the judge decided Monday to...

AMES, Iowa (AP) — Officials say a statue of Iowa State University's first black student-athlete will be moved back to the central campus in Ames, away from the stadium named after him.

AMES, Iowa (AP) — Prosecutors in Iowa are fighting to keep the trial of a man accused of killing am Iowa State University golfer in Story County.

BROOKINGS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota State University is creating a new veterinary program with the University of Minnesota to address a shortage of rural care in the region.

AMES, Iowa (AP) — Roadways can turn hazardous and deadly during winter's wrath, and a project under way in Iowa is looking at one possible solution: Heating the pavement.

AMES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa State University is set to receive a $3.5 million gift to transform biomolecular research and make the school into a leader in advanced electron microscopy...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Dangerously low temperatures and wind chills have prompted several Iowa universities to call off classes.

The National Weather Service's wind chill warning says wind chills as low as minus 50 degrees (negative 45.6 Celsius) could occur Wednesday in much of Iowa.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — In a story Sept. 7 about Iowa college enrollment, The Associated Press erroneously interchanged the enrollment of students at the University of Iowa and Iowa State University. The University of Iowa has about 32,900 students, down 600 students, and ISU has about 35,400 students, down 550 from last year. This story also clarifies that the state university system has a combined enrollment of about 79,600 students.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa State University has paid $125,000 to settle two lawsuits brought by a former university administrator who accused the school of blocking her efforts to investigate sexual assault reports.

The university says the State Appeal Board approved the settlement with Robinette Kelley on Monday.

AMES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa State University will establish and lead a new research center into antibiotic-resistant bacteria, according to a joint announcement Thursday from two university organizations.

AMES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa State University is changing how it responds to reports of sexual violence following lawsuits alleging the school mishandled sexual assault complaints, according to university officials.

AMES, Iowa (AP) — Police are investigating a report of a sexual assault at Iowa State University.

Deputy Chief Carrie Jacobs says a woman reported the assault to campus police Thursday evening but further details were not immediately available.

Jacobs says the woman is not a student and it's unclear if she was assaulted on or off campus. Authorities were notified of the case while she was at a hospital.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Board of Regents has proposed raising tuition at the state's three public universities by an average 3.5 percent, but the plan would give much higher increases to thousands of students.

NEVADA, Iowa (AP) — A former Iowa State University lecturer arrested last year for public intoxication during class has pleaded guilty to a reduced charge.

The Des Moines Register reports that 56-year-old Gordon Branch Knight has pleaded guilty to first-offense public intoxication, a simple misdemeanor.

Knight had been charged with second-offense public intoxication, a serious misdemeanor with penalties of up to a year in jail.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa State University's unconstitutional crackdown on a pro-marijuana student group's T-shirts will cost state taxpayers nearly $1 million in damages and legal fees.

AMES, Iowa (AP) — Officials say a bus carrying the touring cast and crew of "Dancing with the Stars" was involved in a large pileup during a snow storm in central Iowa, but no one on the bus was seriously hurt.

Iowa State University says the Monday crash resulted in the cancellation of "Dancing with the Stars: Live! Light Up The Night" on the campus in Ames. The university says some people on the bus suffered minor injuries.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A former Iowa State University administrator is suing the school, saying it gives students accused of sexual assault more protection than victims.

The lawsuit filed by Robinette Kelley alleges the university blocked her attempts to properly investigate sexual assault complaints and stopped her from ensuring the university was Title IX compliant.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa State University had no clear need to spend $498,000 in donations to buy an airplane that former President Steven Leath used largely to improve his piloting skills, state auditors reported Tuesday.

Iowa State should also consider seeking reimbursement from Leath, now president of Auburn University, for a 2016 spring break trip in which a university pilot dropped him off at his North Carolina home, the report from State Auditor Mary Mosiman said.

AMES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Board of Regents on Monday chose the dean of Iowa State University's agriculture college as the school's next president.

The board appointed Wendy Wintersteen as Iowa State's 16th president, filling a position left vacant when Steven Leath took a job as president of Auburn University. She will be the first female president since Iowa State's founding in 1858.

AMES, Iowa (AP) — Officials say the fourth finalist in the search for the next Iowa State University president is already on campus.

Dean Wendy Wintersteen of Iowa State's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences is scheduled to meet Thursday with staff, students and community members. Her curriculum vitae and interview schedule are available on Iowa State's presidential search website, presidentsearch.iastate.edu.

AMES, Iowa (AP) — Officials say the third finalist in the search for the next Iowa State University president is executive vice president at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.

The Iowa Board of Regents says Dale Whittaker will visit the Ames campus Wednesday and meet with staff, students and community members. His curriculum vitae and interview schedule are available on Iowa State's presidential search website, presidentsearch.iastate.edu.

AMES, Iowa (AP) — The second of four finalists to be Iowa State University's next president is senior vice president for academic affairs at the University of Georgia, Athens.

The Iowa Board of Regents says Pamela Whitten will visit the Ames campus Tuesday and meet with staff, students and community members. Her curriculum vitae and interview schedule are available on Iowa State's presidential search website, presidentsearch.iastate.edu.

AMES, Iowa (AP) — The first of four finalists to be Iowa State University's next president has been named.

The Iowa Board of Regents says Sonny Ramaswamy will visit campus Monday to meet with faculty, staff and students.

Ramaswamy is currently director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture in Washington D.C.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — In a story Oct. 1 about Iowa's and Nebraska's income growth, The Associated Press, based on comments from an Iowa State University economist who later said he misspoke, reported erroneously that agriculture and related industries comprise nearly half of Iowa's economy. They make up about a quarter of it.

A corrected version of the story is below:

Stagnant farm economy slows growth in Iowa, Nebraska

AMES, Iowa (AP) — Campus visits have been scheduled for the four finalists in the search for the next president of Iowa State University.

The Des Moines Register reports that the first person is set to be in Ames on Monday, the fourth on Oct. 12. Their identities are being kept secret until a day before their visits.

AMES, Iowa (AP) — Officials say the Iowa State University College of Business will be renamed because of a $50 million commitment from two California benefactors.

AMES, Iowa (AP) — Officials say a family foundation has committed $7 million to add classroom and other space for the Iowa State University College of Business in Ames.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds criticized proposed tuition increases at the University of Iowa and Iowa State University but didn't commit to reversing a decline in state support that has led to higher tuition.

AMES, Iowa (AP) — Mosquitoes from traps at central Iowa parks have tested positive for the West Nile virus.

The testing was recently conducted at parks in Ames by Iowa State University and the University Hygienic Lab.

While there is a lag time between collecting the samples and the testing, the results suggest mosquitoes with the potential to carry the virus are likely still present in the community. ISU entomologist Ryan Smith says late summer is the peak season for transmission of the virus.

AMES, Iowa (AP) — The interim president of Iowa State University has proposed increasing resident undergraduate tuition 7 percent every year for the next five years.

President Ben Allen told an Iowa Board of Regents task force Wednesday that the university's enrollment has risen by 37 percent since 2009, but that state appropriations for operations have declined by 30 percent. That means the university received nearly $4,000 less in state support for every resident student than in 2009.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Julianna and Andy Hrasky got a nasty surprise when they returned home last month: Thousands of Japanese beetles were eating their way through their western Iowa vineyard.

"One day was fine, and the next, they had taken over," said Julianna Hrasky, whose family left their vineyard — Prairie Crossing Vineyard and Winery near Council Bluffs — for a couple days.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Some university officials in Iowa say international student enrollment has fallen at the state's three public universities this year due to immigration concerns raised during the presidential election.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Navy leaders have backed off a commander's claim that an Iowa State University midshipman fabricated a sexual assault but ruled the victim will nonetheless be expelled for drinking underage before the molestation occurred.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa State University officials worked with utilities lobbyists for weeks to draft a law uprooting the state's renewable energy research center, giving the industry cover to avoid allegations of a "power grab," newly released emails show.

AMES, Iowa (AP) — The solar vehicle Iowa State University students are showing off across the state doesn't look a lot like your standard American car.

But then again, it doesn't look much like the tiny, slim solar racers you might be familiar with either.

In fact, with four doors and roomy cargo space under the rear hatch, this car looks almost like it would be at home in any car lot.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa State University lost another appeal in a federal court case over the decision of administrators to prevent a marijuana advocacy group from printing a T-shirt that included the university logo and a marijuana leaf.

AMES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa State University is seeking approval to offer its first nursing degree program in order to help Des Moines-area nurses obtain bachelor's degrees.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad on Friday approved a roughly $7.2 billion state budget that will keep open a longtime research center, though he still plans to remove its funding.

Branstad used his veto power to cut language that would have eliminated the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University. But he kept plans to redirect a tax worth roughly $1.5 million that helps pay for the center. It will go to a separate ISU center that studies water quality.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Board of Regents has hired a Washington search firm to help in its search for the next president of Iowa State University.

The board said a news release that it had selected AGB Search.

Regents board director Robert Donley says the firm "has a track record of doing great work in assisting in hiring of university presidents."

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Board of Regents is considering tuition hikes at the state's three public universities next school year to help offset millions of dollars in budget cuts.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A budget bill that would eliminate a longtime research center at Iowa State University is headed to Gov. Terry Branstad.

The Republican-controlled Legislature approved an agriculture-related budget bill this week that eliminates the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture by July 1. Remaining activities within the 30-year-old center would be administered by the ISU College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.