CARDinal: Cyclone Archival Research Database

Abstract The Liaison Advisory Committee on Transfer Students (LACTS), composed of representatives from Iowa’s community colleges and public universities, was formed in 1972. LACTS helps students with transfer credit policies, and they create specific agreements between institutions of higher education to coordinate how the credits are accepted to meet degree requirements. This collection (1972-2009) contains agendas of meetings, correspondence between Iowa community colleges, LACTS meeting minutes,...

Scope and Content The collection (1925-2009, undated) contains material related to Dr. Thompson's professional career. The collection includes biographical material, correspondence, news clippings, documentation of awards and certificates, published papers, conference proceedings, and Center for Agricultural and Economic Development (CAED) reports. The published papers and articles document Dr. Thompson's research on the effects of climate on crop production and his research on agricultural and economic...

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The collection (1933-1980, undated) contains correspondence; writings, including letters to editors, speeches, reports, and articles; printed materials; biographical material; news articles related to the Iowa Conservation Commission; memorabilia; and printed material.

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This collection (1969-1977) contains biographical information, news clippings, and research publications of Sendlein while he was on staff at Iowa State University. Included in the reports is an assessment of the Nishnabotna Drainage Basin in southwestern Iowa and a final report on regulations for the placement of sanitary landfills in Iowa, a project supported by the Iowa State Water Resources Research Institute.

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This collection (1943-1988, undated) contains biographical information, photographs, recipe booklets and files collected by Carlin, news clippings, correspondence, departmental correspondence and memoranda, reports, Carlin’s MS thesis, published papers, classroom materials, and award materials.

Scope and Content The collection (1972-2005) contains biographical information and materials related to the Modest Home Makeover Program (MHM) including evaluations, annual reports, teaching guides, county and family information, plans, slides, photographs, newspaper clippings, and resources. Families interested in the MHM entered into an agreement with the ISU Extension Service to consult and offer in-home assistance for planning updates to rooms in the family's homes. A county...

Scope and Content The collection (1969-1999, undated) contains correspondence, reports, minutes, legislative testimony, vocational education statistics, notes and meeting materials. Much of the collection documents the coalition's efforts to ensure adequate funding and support for family and consumer science education at the federal level. There are also a number of records relating the Coalition's work advocating satisfactory funding and language within the Vocational Education Act, renamed The Carl D....

Abstract Norman L. Jacobson was a professor in the Animal and Dairy Science Department and Administrator for Research and Graduate College. He primarily worked on nutritional physiology and is best known for his work related to cattle and dairy cattle. This collection contains materials including vitae, papers, correspondence, manuscripts, grant proposals, awards, speeches and research. Most of the material is correspondence with colleagues and various papers related to his research in nutritional...

Scope and Content The collection (1916-2002, undated) contains biographical information, correspondence, research papers, and patents relating to the work of Orland Russell Sweeney. The collection includes personal and administrative correspondence, but the majority of the letters are in regards to his research projects and patents. The collection also contains an assortment of technical papers authored by Sweeney including a copy of his dissertation. The material relating to Sweeney's patents include...

Abstract Paul J. Hermann (1923-2015) was a professor of aerospace engineering at Iowa State University from 1961 until 1993. His research interests included computer applications, flight control systems, and aircraft stability and control. He was recognized as a popular student advisor throughout his tenure. This collection documents Hermann's career as an engineer at the Goodyear Aircraft Corporation and as an engineering educator at Iowa State University through biographical information, course...

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The collections include materials related to the establishment of the chapter, chapter business materials such as minutes, reports, and by-laws, membership lists, and the chapter charter.

Scope and Content The collection (1938-1968, undated) contains material related to Phillips Talbot's work with the Institute of Current World Affairs as well as information on the American Universities Field Staff. The collection also contains news clippings, including biographical information about Talbot, and photographs from Talbot's time in India (1940). Materials related to the ICWA include copies and extracts from letters written by Talbot to ICWA Director Walter S. Rogers...

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This collection (1973-1998, undated) contains annual reports, constitutions, correspondence, and meeting minutes. The collection also contains programs for a number of the mini-symposia sponsored by the Council as well as correspondence, programs, and some presentation information related to the H. Hugh Dukes Club.

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Raymond R. Beneke was a Professor of Economics at Iowa State University from 1951 until 1992. His research and writings focused on agricultural economics and farm management. This collection contains biographical information, photographs, correspondence, articles, reports, and papers written by Beneke. Much of the materials are related to his research in the areas of farm management and agricultural economics.

Abstract Robert W. Jolly (b. 1944) was a Professor of Economics (1985-2010) at Iowa State University. Jolly served in a number of administrative capacities including Dean and Director of the Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station, Interim Director for the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, and the Director of the Iowa State University Agricultural Credit School. Jolly also helped coordinate agricultural projects in Russia, Ukraine, and Slovakia. This collection contains...

Scope and Content The collection (1943-1990, undated) documents the concerns and activities of the Rural Coalition through its organizational records and subject files which include correspondence, task force records and reports, committee materials (agendas, plans, reports), studies, annual meeting materials and minutes, board meeting materials and minutes, testimonies and statements before congressional committees, grant applications, newsletters and publications. The organizational...

Abstract Ruth P. Hughes was a professor in the Home Economics Department and Administrator for the Graduate College. She was best known for her work in Home Economics Education research. This collection contains materials including biographical information, publications, research files, reports, committee work, conferences materials, and correspondence. These files document Hughes’ work in evaluating vocational home economics programs at high schools, colleges, and universities across the country,...

Scope and Content This collection (1907-2009) contains material on the planning of celebrations, annual meetings, symposia, workshops and other events organized by the SON; material from the Executive Board of the Society of Nematologists; biographical materials on some prominent Nematologists and other SON members; committee records; materials from congresses SON participated in; SON’s constitution and by-laws; correspondence; financial records; half-tone plates, slides, photographs, and negatives; records...

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This collection (1939-1980, undated) contains conferences proceedings, business transactions, scrapbooks, membership information, President's reports, project records, and bylaws.

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Thomas S. Ingebritsen was an Associate Professor in the Iowa State University Department of Zoology and Genetics. He developed Iowa State's first online class, Project BIO, which was used by college and high school teachers in their own classrooms to share multimedia lectures on advances in biology education and research. This collection contains papers documenting Ingebritsen's teaching career at Iowa State University including records relating to the development of Project Bio.

Scope and Content The collection (1920-2008, undated) contains biographical information, correspondence, reports, meeting minutes, printed materials, and photographs. The collection includes subject files relating to education in Iowa including school consolidation and post high school education. There are also materials related to Lagomarcino’s work with the Iowa Department of Public Instruction including reports (1955) documenting education in every county in Iowa. The collection contains documentation...

Scope and Content The collection (1936-1984, undated) includes conservation plans, correspondence, project reports, policies and procedures, budget and financial information, damage reports, design criteria, work and design plans, criteria for watershed treatment, treatment plans, legal documents, meeting minutes, photographs, reports and various data and statistics gathered on the watershed and its subwatersheds. The collection does not contain the personal papers of Tonsfeldt, but consists of materials...

Scope and Content The collection (1947-1986, undated) contains biographical information and materials written by Professor Walter A. Lunden. The printed materials include articles and reports authored by Lunden, many of which are concerned with the criminal justice system in Iowa. Several reports prepared for government agencies are also included in the collection including a report of the Governor's Committee on Penal Affairs and a report Lunden prepared for the Des Moines, Iowa, Police Department. Many of...

Abstract Warren R. Madden was the Vice President for Business and Finance (1984-2016) at Iowa State University. His office oversaw a wide range of services and operation at Iowa State including campus facilities, business operations, finance, public safety, environmental health and safety, Reiman Gardens, public radio, University Museums and the Iowa State Center. This collection contains administrative records and reports from Madden's tenure as Vice President for Business and Finance and includes...

Abstract Wilbur L. Layton was Professor of Psychology at Iowa State University and also served as Head of the Department of Psychology and Vice President for Student Affairs. This collection contains articles, memos, correspondence, and reports from primarily from his tenure as Vice President for Student Affairs. In addition to documenting the administration of the Division of Student Affairs during his tenure, these files also contain information on student unrest during the 1960s and 1970s, the...

Scope and Content The collection (1927-1995) contains Adams' farm records (1927-1958), annual reports of the Northeast Iowa Farm Business Association (1936-1938), and records Adams kept as township chair for the Corn-Hog Program (1934). The bulk of the collection consists of farm records kept by William Adams both for his own benefit and after 1936 as a member of the Northeast Iowa Farm Business Association. (For copies of cooperator agreements with the Association, see file 2/12)....

Scope and Content The collection (1963-2013) contains conference proceedings, financial records, correspondence, Executive Committee materials, newsletters, handbooks, guidelines, secretary's reports, membership information, and awards materials. The conference proceedings include programs, abstracts, and volumes of Veterinary Parasitology. The Executive Committee materials generally relate to meetings and include minutes, agendas and correspondence. The award materials...