Iowa State College

Iowa State University of Science and Technology (ISU) is a public land-grant and space-grant university located in Ames, Iowa, USA. Until 1959 it was known as Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. The university is one of 60 elected members of the Association of American Universities and is classified as a Carnegie RU/VH institution, i.e., a research university with very high research activity. In 1856, the Iowa General Assembly enacted legislation to establish the State Agricultural College and Model Farm. Story County was chosen as the location on June 21, 1859, from proposals by Johnson, Kossuth, Marshall, Polk, and Story counties. When Iowa accepted the provisions of the Morrill Act of 1862, Iowa State became the first institution designated as a land-grant college. Iowa State University is the operating agency for the Ames Laboratory, a United States Department of Energy national laboratory.
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