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Celebrating Veterans Day Iowa State to honor service members with campus events BY LOGAN.METZGER @iowastatedaily.com Veterans Day, formerly known as Armistice Day, was originally set as a U.S. legal holiday to honor the end of World War I, which officially ended Nov. 11, 1918. Iowa State will be having multiple events throughout the week to celebrate Veterans Day and honor veterans. At 3:15 p.m. in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union will be this year’s Gold Star Hall Ceremony. The ceremony is an annual event put on to honor Iowa State students who made the ultimate sacrifice fighting for their country. Three WWII service members and one Vietnam service member will be honored during this year’s ceremony: John Fuller, who died in Belgium; Schuyler Wheeler, who died in Germany; Meredith Deroy Winter, who

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DESIGN BY MARIA ALBERS This Veterans Day, Iowa State will honor veterans with events such as the Iowa State’s annual Gold Star Hall Ceremony and a Veterans Appreciation Dinner in the Memorial Union. Some tips to honor veterans, according to Military.com, include attending Veterans Day events and flying the flag.

Ceremony to honor former students BY LOGAN.METZGER @iowastatedaily.com Four former Iowa State students will be recognized for their military service and their sacrifices at the annual Gold Star Hall ceremony. The ceremony will take place at 3:15 p.m. Monday in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union. The event is open to Iowa State students, faculty, staff and the general public. Refreshments will be available following the ceremony. Photos, memorabilia and the personal stories of four former Iowa State students — three who served in World War II and one who served in Vietnam — will be shared at the Gold Star Hall ceremony. The family and friends of the fallen soldiers will be in attendance, so they may see the names memorialized on the walls of Gold Star Hall. The ceremony will include the stories of each honoree, as well as taped comments by President Wendy Wintersteen, a presentation of the colors by members of Iowa State ROTC, singing of the National Anthem and

IOWA STATE DAILY ROTC students listen to Iowa State President Wendy Wintersteen’s video speech during the Gold Star Hall Ceremony on Nov. 12, 2018, at The Gold Star Hall Ceremony in the Memorial Union.

taps played by Iowa State students. Schuyler Wheeler studied dairy industry at Iowa State from 1939 to 1941. He joined the U.S. Army on July 12, 1942. Wheeler was killed Dec. 15, 1944, while liberating Ensdorf, Germany. John Fuller studied general engineering

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at Iowa S tate from 1938 to 1941. He enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps on Jan 15, 1942. He was killed during the Battle of the Bulge near Bastogne, Belgium, on Dec. 23, 1944.

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Iowa State gains faculty learning communities BY LOGAN.METZGER @iowastatedaily.com Iowa State’s student learning communities were created in 1995. Today, the university boasts more than 90 student learning communities focused on an array of topics and a 77 percent participation rate among first-year students. Iowa State’s faculty are now delving into the learning community arena for themselves. These faculty learning communities started with a chance conversation at a conference. CARLTON “A couple of years ago, BASMAJIAN I was at a conference sitting next to someone from the University of Georgia who was a landscape architect, and he mentioned he was part of a faculty learning community,” said Carlton Basmajian, associate professor of community and regional planning and director of the Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities, in a press release. “He said, ‘Faculty from a lot of different departments get together around a common idea and meet and chat.’” Basmajian brought the idea of faculty learning communities to vice president for research Sarah Nusser, and now the first five communities have been formed and will work throughout the academic year to address the issues they are researching. the Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities directs the communities, but they are open to faculty across campus. One of the goals of the communities is to bring together faculty from several colleges and departments with different backgrounds and expertise. In April, the Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities, in conjunction with the Office of the Vice President for Research, asked faculty members to submit proposals for new faculty learning communities focused on a particular topic. As a result of the call for proposals, five new faculty learning communities were selected to receive $1,000 in seed funds to further develop their outreach beginning fall semester 2019. The focus areas and faculty leaders of the new learning communities follow. “A u g m e n t e d R e a l i t y E n h a n c i n g Intercultural Competence and Second Language Learning” with Shenglan Zhang, assistant professor of world languages and cultures, as the faculty leader. This community seeks to share information related to the application, language and culture of augmented reality, and also explore funding opportunities that enhance students’ intercultural communication skills and second language learning, according to the Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities website.

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