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Jack Trice Football Stadium

MidAmerican Energy Field at Jack Trice Stadium has been the home to Iowa State football since 1975. With a capacity of 61,500, it is the third-largest stadium in the Big 12 Conference. Its natural grass playing surface has won numerous awards and is widely recognized as one of the best fields in the nation.The stadium is named after Iowa State's first African-American student-athlete, Jack Trice, who passed away from injuries suffered in a game at Minnesota in 1923. MidAmerican Energy Field at Jack Trice Stadium is the only Division I FBS stadium named in honor of an African-American individual.

Sports Performance Center

The Sports Performance Center is a $90 million project, creating mutiple spaces for use by all student-athletes. Key features of the project include new student-athlete academic center, dining hall, nutrition fueling stop, weight room and life skills center. The project is scheduled to be completed in the summer of 2021. Live Web Cam - https://www.fpm.iastate.edu/webcam/stadium/

Hilton Coliseum

The Iowa State volleyball team practices and competes at Hilton Coliseum. With a capacity of 8,524, ISU annually ranks among the nation's top-15 schools in average attendance. In 2018, Iowa State became the first program in the Big 12 to have a Taraflex Volleyball Court.

Season's Dining Hall

Popular buffet style dining spot, located in the center of Maple Willow Larch dorms. There are many dining halls across campus, athletes have several options between campus dining halls and the Sports Performance Dining Hall.

Lied Rec Center

Recreation Center for Iowa State students and home to Cyclone Volleyball Camps. This is a general use rec center and also used for indoor track.

Forker Building

Home of Kinesology and also has auxillary gyms for Cyclone Volleyball.

Freddy Court

Freddy Court is home to our freshman student athletes. Closer to an apartment than a dorm, each student has their own bedroom, a shared living space, and a full kitchen. Students can walk or take the Cyride bus system into campus. There is also a dining hall in the middle of the complexes.

College of Design

The Iowa State College of Design is one of the most comprehensive design institutions in the US. Everything you see around you, every minute of every day, is likely to be a product of disciplines that live and work together “under one roof” in the College of Design.​ Many of the design program are ranked in the top 25 nationally by DesignIntelligence - undergraduate Landscape Architecture (10th), Interior Design (15th) and Architecture (22nd). The graduate Landscape Architecture program is ranked 22nd.

Howe Hall

Howe Hall houses the College of Engineering - including the Department of Aerospace Engineering, Engineering Mechanics, and the Virtual Reality Applications Center. It also has environmental and aerodynamic wind tunnels with new research capabilities and an experimental underwater acoustics facility, the first of its kind in the state of Iowa. Located in the four story atrium is one of the main features of Howe Hall, the C-6 virtual reality lab, one of the most advanced synthetic environments in the world and the only facility of its kind in the United States.

State Gym

State Gym, recently renovated in 2012, offers a variety of new amenities such as basketball and volleyball courts, weight lifting and exercise classes, rock climbing wall and a leisure pool with a high-dive.

UDCC (Union Drive Community Center)

Popular dining hall on campus. All dining halls on campus are all you can eat, buffet style.

Lake Lavern

Lake LaVerne, the home of Lancelot and Elaine, was created with a $10,000 donation in 1916 by LaVerne W. Noyes. Noyes, a wealthy Chicago philanthropist and member of the first graduating class of 1872, funded a lake in what had been a three-acre marsh area, fed by College Creek.Two of the swans were named Lancelot and Elaine by student Jean Nesinwanger, who won $10. Since that time, there have been numerous Lancelots and Elaines. Iowa State tradition says if you walk around Lake LaVerne three times in silence with your beloved, you are destined to be together.

Memorial Union

To start the walking part of your tour - park near Memorial Union or park in the parking garage to the east of the Union. The Memorial Union is one of oldest, more historic and iconic buildings on the ISU campus. M.U. provides is a food court the University Book Store, which has textbooks, game day apparel, video games and much more.When it comes to history and tradition, the Memorial Union has it in spades. The Four Seasons Fountain on the North side of the building was a gift from the VEISHEA Committee in 1937 and the four sculptures by Christian Petersen were later added in 1942. The sculptures are of woman doing an action that represents one of the four seasons. Four example, the South sculpture represents summer and is protecting a corn plant from the sun's rays.Arguably the most famous part of the Memorial Union is the zodiac that is found inside the North entrance, created by the designer of the M.U., William T. Proudfoot. The zodiac consists of the 12 celestial constellations that reside in night sky or as some say “in the heavens.” The zodiac is not only iconic but also the center of a taboo. If a student is to step on the zodiac it is said that they will fail their next exam. Although Proudfoot intended the brass zodiac signs to be worn away by foot track, it is said that students started the rumor because they liked how the signs were raised from the floor.The entrance by the zodiac leads into Gold Star Hall, a memorial to ISU students who died in battle, dating back to World War I.Out of the dozens of names scribed on the walls, only one is of a woman. Her name is Hortense Wind, and according to the lore of the M.U., her ghost is said to still roam the halls.Also inside Gold Star Hall are 12 stained glass windows designed by Harold W. Cummings. Each of the windows is supposed to portray the different attributes of students in all the different colleges on campus.Beneath the zodiac and Gold Star Hall is a chapel in the back of the Browsing Library. It was Proudfoot's belief in patriotism and religion that led him to put a place to pray underneath the zodiac and Gold Star Hall.

Gerdin Business Building

Gerdin is home to our College of Business. The 111,000-square foot building is equipped with state-of-the-art technology, including high-tech laboratories that allow students and faculty to replicate real-world business situations, like securities trading and market research.Our College of Business is ranked:#5 in the world for supply chain management research productivity#26 for entrepreneurship studies in Princeton Review® and Entrepreneur magazine’s national recognition of the top undergraduate programs in the country#3 in the world in accounting information systems research

Curtiss Hall

Home for some Agricultural and English classes.

Catt Hall

Catt Hall was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. Catt was an Iowa State graduate (1880) who went on to be a major leader in the women's suffrage movement. Catt Hall houses many liberal arts class rooms.

Mackay Hall

Family and Consumer Sciences

Physics Hall

Physics and Astronomy

Parks Library

Durham Center

Engineering classrooms and IT

The Hub

Campus eatery with burgers and sandwiches.

Morrill Hall

Morrill Hall was constructed to fill the need for a library and museum, as well as a chapel. Named to honor the Senator who had sponsored the Morrill bill, which had established the land-grant college system, Morrill Hall was built at a cost of less than $30,000. Since its construction, it has been home to zoology, entomology, and geology classes and labs, Agriculture Extension Offices, the Printing Office, Photo Service, and even a barber shop from 1905-1908. Morrill Hall now houses the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, the Center for Visual Learning in Textiles and Clothing, and the Christian Petersen Art Museum.

Beardshear Hall

Central campus offices - Office of the President and student financial aid services.

Carver Hall

Mathematics building. In 1966, the building was named Carver Hall to honor George Washington Carver, a student and instructor at the college before 1900.

Campanile and Central Campus

The Campanile was constructed in 1897 as a memorial to Margaret MacDonald Stanton, Iowa State's first dean of women. Campanile folklore states that an ISU student is not a "true Iowa Stater" until having been kissed underneath the Campanile at the stroke of midnight.[7] This rite of passage lives on during "Mass Campaniling" at Homecoming, VEISHEA, or other occasions, during which time hundreds or even thousands of students gather near the campanile to continue this tradition.Iowa State's central campus was one of only three colleges to receive the American Society of Landscape Architects medallion award given to outstanding landscape sites. The book, The Campus As a Work of Art, proclaimed Iowa State to have one of the 25 most beautiful campuses in the country.You'll discover more than just nature's beauty on a walk through campus. Iowa State has the largest public art collection in the nation with an estimated 2,000 works of art on campus.