Iowa State University is a public land-grant research university in Ames, Iowa, about 40 minutes from the state’s capital city of Des Moines.

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What is now Iowa State University was originally set up by the state legislature as an agricultural college and model farm in 1858. Land was purchased for close to $5,400 the following year. The ...