Description of Material

This sub-group (1962-1990) consists of contracts, forms, correspondence, proposals and reports relating to Agricultural Experiment Station projects conducted by members of the Iowa State University, Department of Sociology. The projects mainly study issues regarding or related to farmers and rural families.

Abstract

Tyagi was an Assistant Professor (1991) and an Associate Professor (1999) at Iowa State University in Electrical Engineering, with degrees from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, the Indian Institute of Technology and the University of Washington. Tyagi's research interests include VLSI design, computer architecture, and complexity theory. The collection (1991-1999, undated) includes biographical information, papers, and proposals.

Scope and Content

This collection contains Dr. Cruz-Neira’s biographical information, and proposals.

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...

Abstract Roger G. Ginder (born 1946) worked as a Professor for the Department of Economics and an extension specialist in agribusiness management at Iowa State University (1978-2010). Much of Ginder's work focused on the management of farmers' cooperatives (co-ops) in the upper Midwest during the difficult economic years of the 1980s and 1990s. This collection contains lecture materials, research files, papers, proposals, and presentation notes. Much of these materials focus on farming debt, credit,...

Abstract

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.