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2 ISU architecture programs rank in top 20 nationally

  Iowa State University’s undergraduate programs in landscape architecture and architecture are ranked in the top 20 in the nation, according to a new survey of practitioners by DesignIntelligence. The survey placed Iowa State’s undergraduate…
By BPC Staff | Nov 13, 2015
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Greater Des Moines foundation ranks well nationally

The Foundation Center recently ranked the Community Foundation of Greater Des Moines in the top 55 of more than 750 community foundations across the nation in all four categories of its CF Insights: Benchmarking Beyond Asset…
By BPC Staff | Nov 13, 2015
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Workiva, OutcomesMTM make Deloitte Fast500 list

Two Central Iowa companies, Ames-based software firm Workiva and West Des Moines biotech company OutcomesMTM, were ranked on the Deloitte Fast500 list of North America’s 500 fastest-growing companies in technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and energy technology.…
By PERRY BEEMAN | Nov 13, 2015
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USDA awards value-added grants to nine Iowa businesses

Nine Iowa-based businesses will receive U.S. Department of Agriculture grants worth a combined $1.2 million, the agency announced. The money is from the USDA Rural Development’s Value-Added Producer Grant program, which encourages new products. Among the recipients will…
By PERRY BEEMAN | Nov 13, 2015
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Strable elected chair of insurance industry trade group

Deanna Strable, president of Principal Life Insurance Inc.’s U.S. insurance solutions, has been elected chair of LL Global Inc., the nonprofit parent of trade associations LIMRA and LOMA, which have a combined membership of more…
By KENT DARR | Nov 13, 2015
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Morning Business Headlines: 11-13-15

  Smarter robots put 50 percent of jobs at risk – British bank warns CNN Money: The Bank of England has warned that machines could take over 80 million American and 15 million British jobs…
By BUSINESS RECORD STAFF | Nov 13, 2015
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Merck to buy Ames-based Harrisvaccines

Merck & Co. Inc.’s animal health unit will buy Ames-based privately held Harrisvaccines Inc. to expand its portfolio of animal vaccines as the U.S. livestock industry seeks new defenses against diseases, Reuters reported.


The companies did…
By BUSINESS RECORD STAFF | Nov 13, 2015
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Events drawing visitors to Greater Des Moines, week of Nov. 16

Company Lead Name Arrival Date Departure Date Attendance Meeting Venue City Iowa Association of Municipal Utilities 21st Annual Water & Wastewater Operators Training Workshop 11/17/2015 11/19/2015 250 Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites – Des Moines…
By BPC Staff | Nov 13, 2015
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Immigrant investment program could live on for four more years

Congressional debate is heating up on the EB-5 immigration program, which allows foreigners who invest in job-creating projects to get green cards. The YMCA of Greater Des Moines hopes to tap the program for an …
By BPC Staff | Nov 12, 2015
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Farm group finds high nitrate in Raccoon River

Tests by the farm industry group Agriculture’s Clean Water Alliance found that more than half of the 45 monitoring sites on the Raccoon River had the highest nitrate level of the past decade. The Boone …
By BPC Staff | Nov 12, 2015