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Iowa State Spring Commencement

Jon Kinzenbaw Dwight Ink

• 4,809 degrees conferred
• 95% placement rate
• 52% will stay in Iowa
• 63% of residents
• 24% of nonresidents
• 28% of international

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Sharing Iowa State’s Return on Investment

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Iowa State’s Return on Investment: Research, Innovation, Expertise, and Workforce

• Summer 2019 – 33,000sf design and test lab
• 2017 – Strategic technology office

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60 Minutes: University Innovation Alliance

Completion Grants

• ISU Athletics: $1M commitment
• Fundraising priority
• 143 grants totaling $73,000

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Taking Action to Enhance Campus Climate

Next Steps:

• Additional public forums in the fall
• Four teams will engage campus, prioritize

findings, develop implementation plans

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Improving Access and Patient Care

• Avg. monthly patient satisfaction rating:

4.73/5

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WiSE: 2018 Women in Engineering Initiative Award

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National Science Foundation CAREER Awards

Alice Alipour Neil Gong Zengyi Shao Juan Ren Adarsh Krishnamurthy Shan Hu Chinmay Hegde

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Top 100 Worldwide Universities Granted U.S. Patents in 2017

• Iowa State #83 worldwide
• Iowa State researchers earned

32 patents

• Intellectual property addresses

global challenges, launches startup companies, generates economic development

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2018 Udall Scholar: Zoey Mauck

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Cyclone Student Athletes: Academic and Competitive Excellence

• Best NCAA Academic

Performance Rate in school history (988)

• APR score gave Cyclones

competitive advantage in the Cy-Hawk Series

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