ISU History
The year Iowa State was established
What is 1858?
The number of current members on the Improve You Steering Committee
What is 6?
Iowa State's first Dean of Engineering
Who was Anson Marston?
Iowa State University officially opened in 1869 as the nation's first institution to accept this Act to become a land-grant university
What is the Morrill Act?
It's believed that this will happen if students step on The Zodiac in the Memorial Union
What is flunk their next exam?
What is the Farm House?
The two staff groups involved in the Improve You Mentoring Program
What are the College of Engineering and WiSE?
The total number of engineering bachelor degrees offered at Iowa State
What is 15?
The name of the world's first electronic digital computer that was built on the Iowa State campus
What is The ABC (Atanasoff-Berry Computer)?
The name VEISHEA came from these colleges
What are Vet Med, Engineering, Industrial Science, Home Economics, and Agriculture?
The three original college colors
What are silver, yellow, and black?
The year Improve You was established
What is 2014?
The first two engineering majors offered at Iowa State
What are civil and mechanical engineering?
In the 1960s, Iowa State agricultural engineering professor, Wesley Buchele, and a group of student researchers invented the first baler to produce this
What is round hay bales?
A tradition that started two years before VEISHEA came into existence involves selling approximately 9,000 of these
What are cherry pies?
The commonly known name given to the Hub when it was a waiting room for the Ames and College Railway
What is the Dinkey Station?
The two current chairs of the Improve You Mentoring Program
Who are Cindy Frame and Deanna Harper?
The height of the Marston water tower
What is 168 feet?
The first engineering degree in this discipline globally was granted at Iowa State University in 1910
What is agricultural engineering?
The number of bells in the Campanile
What is 50?
The original name of Iowa State University
What is the Iowa Agricultural College and Model Farm?
The topic of our January program
What is productive conversations?
The first engineering hall built on Iowa State's campus
What is the Laboratory of Mechanics?
Iowa State University is home to the process that produces the world's finest cheese of this variety
What is blue cheese?
In 2001, Iowa State set a Guinness world record for the largest of this snack
What is Rice Krispy Treat?