AMES, Iowa – Innovation often starts with a problem or challenge. For Zane Lenz and Grant Veenstra, it was their ...

AMES, Iowa – Understanding how both environmental conditions and genetic makeup affect crops is essential to developing ...

A giant musk turtle is one of the two species of turtles studied by a research team led by Nicole Valenzuela, professor of ecology, evolution and organismal biology at Iowa State University, in a ...

AMES, Iowa – James Herrick, Jr. was on a reconnaissance mission in 1969 when the plane he was piloting was lost near the North Vietnam border and he was never seen again. Six years later, the Iowa ...

As a child, Max Harvey Collins was fascinated with airplanes and always wanted to fly. He loved model airplanes and ordered a balsa wood kit through the Sears catalog, which he meticulously built, ...

On Oct. 27, 1969, James Wayne Herrick, Jr. was piloting a Douglas A-1 Skyraider on a “secret” reconnaissance mission in Laos near the North Vietnam border when his aircraft went missing. The mission ...

In search of opportunity, Sidney Peterson left his hometown of Ringsted and moved to Chicago, following in the footsteps of his older brothers. It was during the Great Depression and the steel mills ...