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EntreFEST 2020 takeaways: Through the viewing glass

At the morning keynote on June 4, NewBoCo Executive Director Eric Engelmann sat down at his computer with a plastic toy hand-clapper and gave it a good shake. The session’s “pre-standing ovation,” an EntreFEST tradition, …

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Regents approve new ISU department name: Management and Entrepreneurship

The Iowa Board of Regents this week approved a new name for the business management department at Iowa State University’s Debbie and Jerry Ivy College of Business. The approved name, Department of Management and Entrepreneurship, …

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DMACC plans for majority of fall classes to be online but on real-time, virtual basis

Des Moines Area Community College announced today it plans to move a majority of its programs to real-time, virtual classes for its fall semester across its campuses. The move would include about 55% of DMACC …

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Denim, Gremlin Social merge to launch joint content creation/targeted advertising platform for financial services

Des Moines fintech startup Denim is now Denim Social after merging with St. Louis-based fintech Gremlin Social, which offers a social media content creation and management platform for financial service firms. 

As Denim Social, the company is …

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Drake University student shares industry struggles as he prepares to graduate

Xavier Lechleitner is finishing his senior year of college at Drake University at home in Edgar, Wis., on his family’s cattle farm. When Lechleitner’s operations management class asked students to submit a video blog exploring …

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Computer scientists launch new search tool for COVID-19 researchers

After the White House called on researchers nationally to assist in COVID-19, Hridesh Rajan realized that the large body of published papers on coronaviruses and other epidemiology studies could offer “game-changing insights” for medical researchers …

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Teaching public health in times of crisis

In the University of Northern Iowa’s Health, Recreation and Community Services Department, Disa Cornish and her colleagues are training the next generation of public health advocates in Iowa — a generation that is witnessing firsthand …

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What does it take to keep research teams safe?

When Marty Scholtz thought about the University of Iowa’s research community rising to a challenge, he recalled the floods of 2008. 

“It was a monumental event on campus and shut down a lot of buildings …

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Universities confront COVID-19

How has the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic changed research happening at Iowa universities? The Business Record reached out to the three regent universities to see how faculty and administrators are adjusting for priority research; plus, a …

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A Closer Look: Brady Harris

When Brady Harris started searching for the next step in his career, moving his family to Greater Des Moines wasn’t even on the road map. Yet as the new CEO of fintech payments startup Dwolla, …