Aging In Place Public Health Campaigns

Graduate students in the College of Public Health developed campaigns for the Mason City community that address issues related to the increasing proportion of older residents in the community. The public health campaigns were tailored to help Mason City residents better “age in place”, which can mean helping individuals stay in their own homes longer, […]

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Branding Mason City’s North End Business District

Juniors in the Tippie College of Business Marketing Institute developed brand alternatives for Mason City’s North End Commercial District, with a goal of uniting the area’s current and future small business owners under a common effort to attract customers and revitalize the neighborhood. Elected officials, business leaders, and community advocates have recognized the essential role […]

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Condominimum Design & Engineering

As part of their Senior Design Capstone course, Civil & Environmental Engineering students designed a multi-family residential structure for a specific site in Mason City. At the request of the City of Mason City, civil and environmental engineering students created site and structural designs for a high rise condominium. The project provides a development scenario […]

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Community Storytelling Project – Grant Wood Loop

Students from a variety of disciplines taking Community Development in the Upper Midwest produced videos that tell stories from the Grant Wood Loop, located in eastern Iowa, through their own experiences in the region and interviews with local residents. In Spring 2018, the University of Iowa School of Urban and Regional Planning, in cooperation with the Iowa […]

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DeWitt Referral Center Retail Management Recommendations

Through a graduate assistantship from the Tippie College of Business, an MBA student worked alongside IISC staff to develop recommendations for retail inventory management policies and procedures for the DeWitt Referral Center, a non-profit organization that serves a resource for local families experiencing hardship or crisis. The DeWitt Referral Center provides for some of the […]

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Maquoketa Pocket Neighborhood Design & Engineering

As part of their Senior Design Capstone course, Civil & Environmental Engineering students created the design and management of a pocket neighborhood for a site near Maquoketa, Iowa for the East Central Intergovernmental Association (ECIA). The report outlines the recommended site designs as well as alternative options considered for the pocket neighborhood in Maquoketa. The […]

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Attracting Young Families to Jackson County

As part of their capstone project, second-year graduate students from the School of Urban & Regional Planning developed strategies and recommendations to position and market Jackson County as a top choice in the region for young families making residential location decisions. Following community visioning and other planning processes, Jackson County officials sought to build on […]

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