Landmarks
Nearing its sesquicentennial in 2008, ISU now has the total of landmarks in campus. Please visit a ISU notables page for many of the beautiful landmarks.

Academics
ISU is better known for its degree computer software around engineering and agriculture. ISU is likewise personal of the globe's foremost digital computer, a Atanasoff Berry Computer.

It consists of the below colleges: [http://www.ag.iastate.edu/ Agriculture] [http://www.bus.iastate.edu/ Business] [http://www.design.iastate.edu/ Design] [http://www.eng.iastate.edu/ Engineering] [http://www.hs.iastate.edu/ Human Sciences] [http://www.las.iastate.edu/ Liberal Arts and Sciences] [http://www.vetmed.iastate.edu/ Veterinary Medicine]

Additionally to these vii colleges, a [http://www.grad-college.iastate.edu/ Graduate College] oversees postgraduate learn altogether fields.

Athletics
the sports teams come nicknamed a Cyclones, a title which dates back to 1895. That month, there were numbers of occurrences of cyclones, or even tornados. Besides that month was whilst a Iowa State eleven attend Northwestern University and defeated its team 36-0. A Chicago Tribune proclaimed "Iowa cyclone devastates Evanstontown."

A school colors come cardinal & gold. A mascot is Cy a Cardinal, world health organization was introduced around 1954. This is in all probability a information to the original nickname, the Cardinals. A Iowa State Cyclones play in the NCAA's Division We-The when a portion of the Big Twelve Conference.

VEISHEA celebration
Iowa State is too noted for VEISHEA, an educatiin and amusement festival held on campus each spring. A title is an acronym of the original colleges of the institution whenever VEISHEA was established around 1922: Veterinary Medicine, Engineering, Industrial Science, Home ec, & Agriculture. Its organizers claim it to become among a big student-organized ethnical festivals in the globe.

Inside recent years a festival has been marred by problems. Unruly students created the disturbance ("rioted") inside Welch Avenue in 1988 & 1992, prompting school officials to require away a traditional Thursday afternoon & Friday holidays prior to a celebration. Problems continued. Around 1997, an nonaged non-student was fatally stabbed by the second non-student outside a fraternity person. Inside response, alcohol was banned in the period of VEISHEA.

Within 2004, the riot took place in the period of VEISHEA whenever police force confronted population in the period of an off-campus person. Because of a riot, officials announced that there would become there are no VEISHEthe festival when you took 2005 & a project click would assume the new of the celebration. Inside March 2005, President Geoffroy announced that the festival may go to around 2006, using cases existence touched from either riot-prone Welch Avenue to central campus. Within April 2005, a student class actiin Leaders INspiring Modems (LINC) organized many cases on what would use been VEISHEA weekend, including Operation Playground, a community service plan involving 700 students building trine playgrounds in the community. "This Is Your April," was an additional chance for students to enjoy their campus atmosphere sponsored per student government & many student groups.

Iowa State University presidents
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC" ! # !! President !! Begin of term !! Prevent of term |- | One || Adonijah S. Welch || 1868 || 1883 |- | Deuce || Seaman A. Knapp || 1883 || 1884 |- | Trine || Leigh S.J. Hunt || 1885 || 1886 |- | Quadruplet || William I. Chamberlain || 1886 || 1890 |- | Quint || William M. Beardshear || 1891 || 1902 |- | Sixer || Albert B. Storms || 1903 || 1910 |- | Sevener || Raymond A. Pearson || 1912 || 1926 |- | Viii || Raymond M. Hughes || 1927 || 1936 |- | Niner || Charles E. Friley || 1936 || 1953 |- | Ten || James H. Hilton || 1953 || 1965 |- | Eleven || W. Robert Parks || 1965 || 1986 |- | Xii || Gordon P. Eaton || 1986 || 1990 |- | Xiii || Martin C. Jischke || June 1, 1991 || August 14, 2000 |- | Xiv || Gregory L. Geoffroy || July 1, 2001 || present |}

Notable people
View ISU notables for a complete listings. Alumni or faculty members
Roberta Green Ahmanson, author & philanthropist John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford E. Berry (see also Atanasoff Berry Computer), developers of the first digital computer Georgina Jinkinson Bonesteel, author & television indicate host Griffith Buck, alumnus & prof of gardening; developed about One c freshly varieties of roses George Washington Carver, first African-American student & academician; musician, creative person, speechifier, athletic trainer and student leader Carrie Chapman Catt, women's rights activist Clarence Chamberlin, aviation pioneer Lawrence D. Downing, President of the Sierra Club John Garang, former commander of SPLA and former vice president of Sudan Henry Gilman, the "Father of Organometallic Chemistry" Tom Harkin, U.S. Senator, Democrat, Iowa Steve 'Flash' Juon, founder and owner of OHHLA.com and RapReviews.com Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate & Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Krasa, President of Dow Corning Jay L. Lush, pioneer of modern animal breeding Norma “Duffy� Lyon, sculptor and butter artist Christian Petersen, sculptor, whose works appear about campus. Jane Smiley, winner of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for fiction George W. Snedecor, statistician Tom Latham, U.S. Representative, Republican, Iowa Stephen R. Walker, television show host Henry Agard Wallace, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, United States Secretary of Commerce, Vice President of the United States, and founder of Pioneer Hi-Bred James Wilson, professor who later became U.S. Secretary of Agriculture

Alex Karev (fictitious), on the indicate Grey's Anatomy

Athletics
Johnny Orr, winningest coach in ISU men's basketball history Tim Floyd, former men's basketball coach using 81-49 record & lone coach by having trey sequentially 20-win seasons. Larry Eustachy, former men's basketball coach Dan Gable, two-instance NCAA wrestling champion & 1972 Olympic gold medalist who down a road became wrestling coach at the University of Iowa Cael Sanderson, four-instance undefeated NCAa wrestling champion world health organization won a gold ribbon at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece NBA Players: Fred Hoiberg, Jeff Hornacek, Kelvin Cato, Paul Shirley, Jamaal Tinsley, and Marcus Fizer NFL Players: Jordan Carstens, Ellis Hobbs, J.J. Moses, Sage Rosenfels, and Seneca Wallace

Iowa State chronology
Cases occurring in the equivalent season did non necessarily happen in the sequentially bestowed on this button.

|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC" ! Season !! Event |- | 1858 || Iowa General Assembly enacted legislation for creation of the State Agricultural College & Model Farm |- | 1859 || Story County was the chosen county for the State Agricultural College & Model Farm |- | 1860 || Constructiin starts on Farm House |- | 1862 || Morrill Act of 1862 was passed; college to be known as Iowa State Agricultural College |- | 1884 || Construction of English Office Building finished |- | 1891 || Construction of Morrill Hall finished |- | 1891 || 1st rerun of Dinkey on July 4 |- | 1892 || Addition mass produced to the English Office Building |- | 1892 || Construction of The Hub |- | 1895 || Eleven nicknamed Cyclones for their performance against Northwestern University |- | 1895 || Severe fluids shortage; classes off; spurred construction of the Marston Water Tower |- | 1897 || Construction for the Campanile was started in Central Campus |- | 1897 || Construction of the Marston Water Tower |- | 1898 || Renamed a Iowa State College of Agriculture & Mechanical Arts |- | 1903 || Construction of Marston Hall finished |- | 1904 || Constructiin number 1 began on what would become a Alumni Hall |- | 1897 || Prevent of operation of Dinkey; start of operation of an electrical streetcar |- | 1908 || Construction of Central Building finished |- | 1908 || President's, Vice-president's, & Treasurer's offices moved from Office Building to Beardshear Hall |- | 1920 || Edgar W. Stanton dies and 26 bells are added to the carillon in the Campanile (36 bells total) |- | 1922 || VEISHEA was established |- | 1928 || a marching band competes inside a band contest held around conjunction by using the Drake Relays around Des Moines |- | 1929 || Construction of the Memorial Union finished |- | 1938 || Central Building renamed to Beardshear Hall |- | 1939 || A Atanasoff Berry Computer is first demonstrated |- | 1940 || English department go into Office Building and is renamed to English Office Building |- | 1941 || A Fountain of Four Seasons is sculpted by Christian Petersen. |- | 1954 || Baker's dozen further bells were added to the carillon in the Campanile (49 bells total) |- | 1959 || Renamed a Iowa State University of Science & Technology |- | 1967 || Bessey Hall opens for use |- | 1967 || Single extra bell was added to the carillon in the Campanile (50 bells aggregate) |- | 1969 || Construction of Stephens Auditorium finished |- | 1973 || English & speech departments relocate from either English Office Building to Ross Hall & Pearson Hall, respectively. |- | 1978 || Alumni Hall placed on the National Register of Historic Places |- | 1978 || A Marston Water Tower is disconnected from utilise. |- | 1982 || A Marston Water Tower is added to the National Register of Historic Places |- | 1983 || Marston Hall placed on the National Register of Historic Places |- | 1984 || Library known as a W. Robert & Ellen Sorge Parks Library |- | 1996 || Morrill Hall determined unsafe for occupancy |- | 1997 || Restoration of the Marston Water Tower |- | 1999 || Central Campus is listed as a "medallion site" per American Society of Landscape Architects |- | 2003 || Control of the Memorial Union was transferred to ISU |- | 2004 || VEISHEA riot; resulted in VEISHEA for 2005 existence cancelled |- | 2004 || English Office Building demolished. the Gerdin Business Building , a freshly high-hi-tech 111,000 square foot (10,000 k²) building equipped by using a latest state-of-a-art technology, opens to replenish a old business building within Carver Hall. |- | 2005 || Both of the Towers dormitory, Knapp & Storms, demolished by implosion |- | 2008 || Sesquicentennial of Iowa State |}