People walk through the Iowa State campus at sunset, with the Marston Water Tower in the background.
A woman works on a laptop. Computer code is shown in the background.
Todd Kingston stands in front of battery testing equipment in his lab.
A student works on a math worksheet while a mentor helps.
Iowa State engineers, left to right, Connor Thorpe and Shan Jiang helped invent the "Flow Guiding Barrel," which improves gene gun performance for the genetic modification of plants. Jiang is holding a Flow Guiding Barrel. A gene gun is on the left.
Colin Livesay, a mechanical engineering student and technician in the Boyd Lab, leans in to make a cut using the lab's mill.
Matt Frank
Portraits of outstanding seniors surround a photograph of the Marston Water Tower reflected in the windows of the Student Innovation Center building. Pictured from top left: Christopher Martin, Nisha Raj, Allison Hubbell, Elena Knops, Caitlin Agabin, Madalyn Moline, Cynnava McAvoy, Sam Burns, Juliana Johnson, Sarah Stewart, Matthew Greer, Joseph Krejchi, Michael Britten.