Safety & You, September 2011

Iowa State University Police Department annually prepares and distributes “Safety & You” to all students, faculty, staff, as well as potential students and employees. Campus crime, arrest and referral statistics include those reported to the ISU Police, designated campus officials (including, but not limited to, Department of Residence, Dean of Students Office, athletic coaches, and advisors to student organizations), Ames Police and the Story County Sheriff’s Office. The ISU Counseling and Thielen Student Health Centers are exempted by patient confidentiality laws from disclosing reported information. Iowa State University does not have a voluntary confidential procedure for reporting crimes to law enforcement

Safety & You, September 2012

Iowa State University Police Department annually prepares and distributes “Safety & You” to all students, faculty, staff, as well as potential students and employees. Campus crime, arrest and referral statistics include those reported to the ISU Police, designated campus officials (including, but not limited to, Department of Residence, Dean of Students Office, athletic coaches, and advisors to student organizations), Ames Police and the Story County Sheriff’s Office. The ISU Counseling and Thielen Student Health Centers are exempted by patient confidentiality laws from disclosing reported information. Iowa State University does not have a voluntary confidential procedure for reporting crimes to law enforcement

Safety & You, September 2013

Iowa State University Police Department annually prepares and distributes “Safety & You” to all students, faculty, staff, as well as potential students and employees. Campus crime, arrest and referral statistics include those reported to the ISU Police, designated campus officials (including, but not limited to, Department of Residence, Dean of Students Office, athletic coaches, and advisors to student organizations), Ames Police and the Story County Sheriff’s Office. The ISU Counseling and Thielen Student Health Centers are exempted by patient confidentiality laws from disclosing reported information. Iowa State University does not have a voluntary confidential procedure for reporting crimes to law enforcement

Safety & You, September 2014

Iowa State University Police Department annually prepares and distributes “Safety & You” to all students, faculty, staff, as well as potential students and employees. Campus crime, arrest and referral statistics include those reported to the ISU Police, designated campus officials (including, but not limited to, Department of Residence, Dean of Students Office, athletic coaches, and advisors to student organizations), Ames Police and the Story County Sheriff’s Office. The ISU Counseling and Thielen Student Health Centers are exempted by patient confidentiality laws from disclosing reported information. Iowa State University does not have a voluntary confidential procedure for reporting crimes to law enforcement

GUS gene expression driven by a citrus promoter in transgenic tobacco and 'Valencia' sweet orange

The objective of this work was the transformation of tobacco and 'Valencia' sweet orange with the GUS gene driven by the citrus phenylalanine ammonia-lyase (PAL) gene promoter (CsPP). Transformation was accomplished by co-cultivation of tobacco and 'Valência' sweet orange explants with Agrobacterium tumefaciens containing the binary vector CsPP-GUS/2201. After plant transformation and regeneration, histochemical analyses using GUS staining revealed that CsPP promoter preferentially, but not exclusively, conferred gene expression in xylem tissues of tobacco. Weaker GUS staining was also detected throughout the petiole region in tobacco and citrus CsPP transgenic plants.

Yli-ihmisen myöhempi elämä

Kirjallisuusarvostelu

Dr. Martin Gibson

Professor of Chemistry and former Dean of Math and Sciences.

Dr. Joffre Mercier

Department of Biological Sciences. Acting Dean of Faculty of Mathematics and Science.

Dr. Maurice Yacowar

Professor of English and former Dean of Humanities.

Men's Basketball Team (1970-71)

Front left team member John Corlett is currently (2008) Dean of the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences

Athletes with their Trophies

Dave Burt, Ken Murray, Anna Lathrop, Jim Nelligan standing with their newly presented trophies on March 23 1978. Dave Burt was co-recipient of the Patricia Lowenberger Memorial Trophy for outstanding male athletic achievement and of the Ed Davis MVP award. His number, along with Ken Murray's, was retired that night. Anna Lathrop received the O'Keefe Trophy for outstanding female athletic achievement and Jim Nelligan was the other co-recipient of the Patricia Lowenberger Memorial Trophy. Anna Lathrop is now (2008) acting Dean of the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences and Ken Murray is the Head Coach of Basketball.

Lowenberger Residence 2004

The building accommodated 311 students in single and double rooms, and included a 300-seat dining hall, common lounges, and study rooms. The building is named after Arnie Lowenberger, a former faculty member who held many significant positions during Brock's early development. Lowenberger was the first Director of the School of Physical Athletics and Recreation, and became its first Dean when it was reconstituted into the Faculty of Physical Education. In these positions, he introduced varsity sports to Brock such as men's and women's basketball and men's hockey, implemented the first health and counseling services for students, planned the design of the original Physical Education building, and drafted the University's Physical Education degree program. He also was the first Director of Residences and the first Dean of Students.

DNA polymerase activity in trophoblast giant cells in the mouse /

In the developing mouse embryo, the diploid trophectoderm is known to undergo a diploid to giant cell transformation. These cells arise by a process of endoreduplication, characterized by replication of the entire genome without subsequent mitosis or cell division, leading to polyploidy and the formation of giant nuclei. Studies of 13.5 day rat trophoblast derived from the parietal yolk sac have indicated a relatively low rate of DNA polymerase a activity, the noinnal eukaryotic replicase, in comparison to that of DNA polymerase g. These results have suggested that endoreduplication in trophoblast giant cells may not employ the normal replicase enzyme, DNA polymerase a. In order to determine whether a 'switch' from DNA polymerase to DNA polymerase is a necessary concomitant of the diploid to giant cell transformation, two distinct populations of trophoblast giant cells, the primary giant cell derived from the mural trophectoderm and the secondary giant cell derived from the polar trophoectoderm were used. These two populations of trophoblast giant cells can be obtained from the tissue outgrowths of 3.5da blastocysts and the extraembryonic ectoderm (EX) and ectoplacental cone (EPC) of 7.5 day embryos respectively. Tissue outgrowths were treated with aphidicolin, a specific reversible inhibitor of eukaryotic DNA polymerase a, on various days after explantation. The effect of aphidicolin treatment was assessed both qualitatively, using autoradiography and quantitatively by scintillation counting and Feulgen staining. 3 DNA synthesis was measured in control and treated cultures after a Hthymidine pulse. Scintillation counts of the embryo proper revealed that DNA synthesis was consistently inhibited by greater than 907. in the presence of aphidicolin. Inhibition of DNA synthesis in the EX and EPC varied between 81-957. and 82-987. respectively, indicating that most DNA synthesis was mediated by DNA polymerase a, but that a small but significant amount of residual synthesis was indicated. A qualitative approach was then applied to determine whether the apparent residual DNA synthesis was restricted to a subpopulation of giant cells or whether all giant cells displayed a low level of DNA synthesis. Autoradiographs of the ICM of blastocysts and the embryo proper of 7.5da embryos, which acted as diploid control population, was completely inhibited regardless of duration in explant culture. In contrast, primary trophoblast giant cells derived from blastocysts and secondary giant cells derived from the EX and EPC were observed to possess some heavily labelled cells after aphidicolin treatment. These results suggest that although DNA polymerase a is the primary replicating enzyme responsible for endoreduplication in mouse trophoblast giant cells, some nonactivity is also observed. A DNA polymerase assay employing tissue lysates of outgrown 7.5da embryo, EX and EPC tissues was used to attempt to confirm the presence of higher nonactivity in tissues possessing trophoblast giant cells. Employing a series of inhibitors of DNA polymerases, it would appear that DNA polymerase a is the major polymerase active in all tissues of the 7.5da mouse embryo. The nature of the putative residual DNA synthetic activity could not be unequivically determined in this study. Therefore, these results suggest that both primary and secondary trophoblast giant cells possess and use DNA polymerase a in endoreduplicative DNA synthesis. It would appear that the high levels of DNA polymerase g activity reported in trophoblast tissue derived from the 13.5 da rat yolk sac was not a general feature of all endoreduplication.

Leadership in higher education : a decanal perspective /

This is a study which examines the roles and responsibilities of Deans, specifically focussing on the Deans in the Faculties of Education at three Ontario Universities - Brock University, the University of Western Ontario, and the University of Windsor. This study examines the roles of Deans in the context of leadership and as a management position. The initial belief of the researcher was that Deans acted as middle managers at their institution besides being role models, scholars and leaders. Data were collected through interviews with the various participants and through the examination of the official job descriptions at each institution. Concepts such as leadership, motivation, empowerment, and management are discussed in relation to the position of Dean. The research concludes that a Dean is a leader in higher education who is responsible for a variety of issues. Besides academic related responsibilities such as faculty development, program development and research, a Dean is also responsible for a wide range of administrative tasks including financial management and obligations to external groups. As a role model and scholar, the Dean must ensure that all areas have sufficient energies devoted to them. This creates a heavy burden on Deans as they have a great deal of responsibilities to manage while still maintaining their role as a scholar. The researcher concludes that the position of Dean requires additional support from the institution. This support could be in an Associate Dean or an Executive Assistant with training and support mechanisms on an ongoing basis.