Editing Iowa State University (section)

== Research ==
Iowa State University is a member of the [[Universities Research Association]], [[University Corporation for Atmospheric Research]] and the [[Association of Public and Land-grant Universities]]. In 2020, Iowa State spent $363.1 million in R&D.<ref name="nsf spend"/><!--559 per ISU https://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2021/07/12/externalfunding21 -->

Iowa State was a member of the [[Association of American Universities]] from 1958 until April 2022.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Jaschik |first1=Scott |title=Iowa State announces its departure from AAU |url=https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/04/22/iowa-state-announces-its-departure-aau |access-date=15 May 2022 |work=[[Inside Higher Ed]] |date=April 22, 2022 |language=en |archive-date=May 16, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220516194732/https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/04/22/iowa-state-announces-its-departure-aau |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=McClellan |first1=Jack |title=Iowa State steps down from the Association of American Universities |url=https://www.iowastatedaily.com/news/iowa-state-university-association-of-american-universities-research-funding-terminate-step-down-membership-institutions-staff-faculty-students-administration-wendy-wintersteen-peter-dorhout-david-peterson-andrea-wheeler-amy-andreotti-medical-schools-national-institute-of-health-isu-aau-nih-high-quality-education/article_fc7b3f04-c74d-11ec-9ea5-ffd95c2ba195.html |access-date=15 May 2022 |work=[[Iowa State Daily]] |date=April 28, 2022 |language=en |archive-date=May 14, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220514083321/https://www.iowastatedaily.com/news/iowa-state-university-association-of-american-universities-research-funding-terminate-step-down-membership-institutions-staff-faculty-students-administration-wendy-wintersteen-peter-dorhout-david-peterson-andrea-wheeler-amy-andreotti-medical-schools-national-institute-of-health-isu-aau-nih-high-quality-education/article_fc7b3f04-c74d-11ec-9ea5-ffd95c2ba195.html |url-status=live }}</ref> It departed claiming that AAU's internal ranking indicators unfairly favor institutions with high levels of [[National Institutes of Health|NIH]] funding and noted that its strength is not in biomedical research because the school does not have a medical school.<ref>{{cite web |title=Iowa State concludes its AAU membership |url=https://www.inside.iastate.edu/article/2022/04/21/aau.php |website=Iowa State University |access-date=October 8, 2013 |archive-date=April 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220421174721/https://www.inside.iastate.edu/article/2022/04/21/aau |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Akin |first1=Katie |title=Iowa State left a prestigious association. What does that mean for the school's reputation? |url=https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2022/04/25/iowa-state-left-a-prestigious-association-what-does-that-mean-for-the-schools-reputation/ |access-date=15 May 2022 |work=Iowa Capital Dispatch |date=26 April 2022 |archive-date=May 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220520211921/https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2022/04/25/iowa-state-left-a-prestigious-association-what-does-that-mean-for-the-schools-reputation/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Miller |first1=Vanessa |title=Faculty ask why Iowa State left AAU, and its implications |url=https://www.thegazette.com/higher-education/faculty-ask-why-iowa-state-left-the-aau-and-what-it-means/ |access-date=15 May 2022 |work=[[The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, Iowa)|The Gazette]] |date=1 May 2022 |archive-date=May 15, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220515162614/https://www.thegazette.com/higher-education/faculty-ask-why-iowa-state-left-the-aau-and-what-it-means/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== Ames National Laboratory ===
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Iowa State is the only university in the United States that has a [[U.S. Department of Energy]] research laboratory physically located on its campus. Operated by Iowa State, [[Ames Laboratory|Ames National Laboratory]] is one of ten national DOE Office of Science research laboratories.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.energy.gov/national-laboratories |title = National Laboratories | website = U.S. Department of Energy | access-date = February 9, 2024}}</ref>

ISU research for the government provided Ames National Laboratory its start in the 1940s with the development of a highly efficient process for producing high-purity uranium for atomic energy.  Today, Ames National Laboratory continues its leading status in current materials research and focuses diverse fundamental and applied research strengths upon issues of national concern, cultivates research talent, and develops and transfers technologies to improve industrial competitiveness and enhance U.S. economic security.  Ames National Laboratory employs more than 500 full- and part-time employees. Students make up more than 45 percent of the paid workforce.<ref> {{cite web |url= https://www.ameslab.gov/sites/default/files/inline-files/FY16-FY22%20%20-%20Demographic%20Trend%20Website%20Data%20%281%29.pdf |title= Ames National Laboratory Workforce Demographic Trends |publisher= Ames National Laboratory |access-date= February 9, 2024 |url-status= live |archive-url=  https://web.archive.org/web/20230518004121/https://www.ameslab.gov/sites/default/files/inline-files/FY16-FY22%20%20-%20Demographic%20Trend%20Website%20Data%20(1).pdf |archive-date= 2023-05-18}} </ref>

[[Dan Shechtman]], awarded the 2011 [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] for the discovery of [[quasicrystal]]s at [[Johns Hopkins University]], is an Associate of Ames National Laboratory.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2011/shechtman/facts/ |title=Dan Shechtman – Facts |publisher=[[Nobel Foundation]] |access-date=April 4, 2024 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.amacad.org/person/dan-shechtman |title=Dan Shechtman {{!}} American Academy of Arts & Sciences |date=January 2024 |publisher=[[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=April 4, 2024 }}</ref>

=== ISU Research Park ===
The ISU Research Park Corporation was established in 1987 as a not-for-profit, independent, corporation operating under a board of directors appointed by Iowa State University and the ISU Foundation. The corporation manages both the Research Park and incubator programs.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.isupark.org/about/.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306194444/http://www.isupark.org/about/.html|url-status=dead|title=The ISU Research Park website|archivedate=March 6, 2016}}</ref>

=== Other research institutes ===
In 2010, the '''Biorenewables Research Laboratory''' opened in a LEED-Gold certified building that complements and helps replace labs and offices across Iowa State and promotes interdisciplinary, systems-level research and collaboration. The Lab houses the Bioeconomy Institute, the Biobased Industry Center, and the [[National Science Foundation]] Engineering Research Center for Biorenewable Chemicals, a partnership of six universities as well as the [[Max Planck Society]] in [[Germany]] and the [[Technical University of Denmark]].<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.engineering.iastate.edu/the-college/points-of-pride.html| title = "Points of Pride", Iowa State University College of Engineering website}}</ref>

The '''Engineering Teaching and Research Complex''' was built in 1999 and is home to Stanley and Helen Howe Hall and Gary and Donna Hoover Hall.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.news.iastate.edu/oldreleases/99/oct/ETRC.html|title=News|last=Holger|first=Dave|date=October 20, 1999|website=ENGINEERING TEACHING AND RESEARCH COMPLEX FACTS|access-date=August 28, 2018|archive-date=March 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210306174900/https://www.news.iastate.edu/oldreleases/99/oct/ETRC.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The complex is occupied by the [[Virtual Reality Applications Center]] (VRAC), [[Center for Industrial Research and Service|Center for Industrial Research and Service (CIRAS)]], Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Engineering Computer Support Services, Engineering Distance Education, and Iowa Space Grant Consortium.<ref name=":0" /> And the complex contains one of the world's only six-sided immersive [[virtual reality]] labs (C6), as well as the 240 seat 3D-capable Alliant Energy Lee Liu Auditorium, the Multimodal Experience Testbed and Laboratory (METaL), and the User Experience Lab (UX Lab).<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.vrac.iastate.edu/facilities/|title=Facilities|date=December 10, 2013|work=Virtual Reality Applications Center|access-date=August 28, 2018|language=en-US|archive-date=August 7, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180807142403/http://www.vrac.iastate.edu/facilities/|url-status=live}}</ref> All of which supports the research of more than 50 faculty and 200 graduate, undergraduate, and postdoctoral students.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.vrac.iastate.edu/|title=VRAC|date=December 10, 2013|work=Virtual Reality Applications Center|access-date=August 28, 2018|language=en-US|archive-date=August 20, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180820224006/http://www.vrac.iastate.edu/|url-status=live}}</ref>

The '''Plant Sciences Institute''' was founded in 1999.<ref>{{cite web |title=Innovations Through the Years |url=https://www.research.iastate.edu/timeline/ |website=Research Timeline |publisher=Iowa State University Office of the Vice President for Research |access-date=February 25, 2021 |archive-date=February 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210227060111/https://www.research.iastate.edu/timeline/ |url-status=live }}</ref> PSI's research focus is to understand the effects of genotype (genetic makeup) and environment on phenotypes (traits) sufficiently well that it will be able to predict the phenotype of a given genotype in a given environment.<ref>{{cite web |title=Plant Sciences Institute |date=March 21, 2019 |url=https://www.cals.iastate.edu/node/208987 |publisher=Iowa State University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences |access-date=February 25, 2021 |archive-date=February 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210227174328/https://www.cals.iastate.edu/node/208987 |url-status=live }}</ref> The institute is housed in the Roy J. Carver Co-Laboratory and is home to the Plant Sciences Institute Faculty Scholars program.<ref>{{cite web |title=Plant Sciences Institute |website=www.psi.iastate.edu |url=https://www.psi.iastate.edu/ |publisher=Iowa State University Plant Sciences Institute |access-date=February 25, 2021 |archive-date=February 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225133913/https://www.psi.iastate.edu/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

There is also the Iowa State University Northeast Research Farm in [[Nashua, Iowa|Nashua]].<ref>{{cite web|author=Simmet, Jean-Caspers|url=https://wcfcourier.com/business/local/isu-nashua-research-farm-marks-years/article_61386259-62fc-577e-a809-0a8bccd6140d.html|title=ISU Nashua research farm marks 40 years|work=[[WCF Courier]]|date=September 25, 2016|access-date=March 28, 2020|archive-date=March 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200328221449/https://wcfcourier.com/business/local/isu-nashua-research-farm-marks-years/article_61386259-62fc-577e-a809-0a8bccd6140d.html|url-status=live}}</ref>