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The Iowa General Assembly in 1858, prior to the passage of the Morrill Act of 1862, enacted legislation to establish a agriculture college and model farm. This college was named the State Agricultural College & Model Farm. The location of Story County was chosen on June 21, 1859 after the state selection board received proposals from Johnson, Kossuth, Marshall, Polk, and Story counties.

ISU is also the home of the first elevated steel water tank west of the Mississippi River. It was erected in 1897. It is named the Marston Water Tower and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places (NR) as of May 27May 27 is the 147th day (148th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 218 days remaining. Events 1328 Philip VI is crowned King of France. 1703 Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg. 1813 War of 1812: In Canada, Unit, 1982Events January January 6 William Bonin is convicted of being the "freeway killer". January 8 AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions January 11 Mark Thatcher, son of the British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, disappears in the Sahara du. Also listed in the NR is Morrill Hall , which is currently being fundraised for renovations.

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ISU is known for its degree programs in engineeringEngineering is the application of science to the needs of humanity. This is accomplished through knowledge, mathematics, and practical experience applied to the design of useful objects or processes. Professional practitioners of engineering are called en and agricultureFarming, ploughing rice paddy, in Indonesia Agriculture is the process of producing food, feed, fiber and other desired products by cultivation of certain plants and the raising of domesticated animals (livestock). Agriculture is also known as farming .. It consists of the following colleges:

In addition to these eight colleges, the Graduate College oversees graduate study in all fields. The Family and Consumer Sciences and Education colleges are in the process of merging, and a new name has not yet been decided.

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It is also noted for VEISHEAVEISHEA (pronounced "VEE-sha") is the name of an annual university-wide celebration held each spring on the campus of Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa in the United States. The name of the festival is an acronym for the colleges of the university that, an education and entertainment festival held on campus every spring. The name is an acronym created from the names of the original colleges consituting the institution when VEISHEA was established in 1922: Veterinary Medicine, Engineering, Industrial Science, Home Economics, and Agriculture. Its organizers claim it to be among the largest student-organized cultural festivals in the world. However in recent years the festival has been marred by problems. In 20042004 is a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 2004 calendar), and has also been designated the: International Year of Rice International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition Elections are to be held in 73 co, a riot took place during VEISHEA when police confronted people during an off-campus party. Because of the riot officials announced that there would be no VEISHEA festival during 2005, and that a decision on the future of the event would be made later.

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The sports teams are nicknamed the "Cyclones" because their football team was said to play football like a tornadoFor other uses of Tornado, see Tornado (disambiguation). waterspout near Florida. A tornado is a violent windstorm characterized by a twisting, funnel-shaped cloud. The word "tornado" comes from the Spanish or Portuguese verb tornar meaning "to turn.. In 1895Events January events January 5 Dreyfus Affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island. February events February 14 First showing of Oscar Wilde's last play The Importance of Being Earnes, the Iowa State football team went to Northwestern University and defeated its team 36-0. A Chicago newspaper proclaimed that the team "struck like a Cyclone," and the name stuck. The Cyclone mascot is "Cy the Cardinal." Their colors are cardinal and gold, and they play in the NCAA's Division I-A, and in the Big Twelve Conference.

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John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford E. Berry (see also Atanasoff Berry Computer), developers of the first digital computer
George Washington Carver
Carrie Chapman Catt
Larry Eustachy , former men's basketball coach
Dan Gable, two-time NCAA wrestling champion and 1972 Olympic gold medalist who later became wrestling coach at the University of Iowa
Henry Gilman, the "Father of Organometallic Chemistry"
Christian Petersen , sculptor, whose works appear around campus.
Cael Sanderson, four-time undefeated NCAA wrestling champion who won a gold medal at the Athens Summer Olympics in 2004
Jane Smiley, winner of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for fiction
George W. Snedecor, statistician
James Wilson, professor who later became US Secretary of Agriculture
Grant Wood, artist; the Parks Library features numerous murals by Wood.

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