The 500 Project, Art of Water, Affordable Housing
Originally broadcast 03/21/2016
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Hosted by Greta Anderson
Ames art teacher Susan Norris describes her “500 project,” a yearlong effort to help the roughly 500 students at Meeker Elementary visualize their collective impact on the world—and on the school’s art supply closet.
Melissa Miller, program coordinator of the Iowa Water Center, invites the public to
Terry Potter of AMOS discusses this Wednesday’s conference on affordable housing strategies, A Place to Call Home, intended to galvanize the community in an effort to form a Local Housing Trust Fund. The conference is cosponsored by the City of Ames, Story County, and ISU.
Iranian-American Fran Amin and Iranian ISU student Sara Neshani from the 
April Burch and George Ensley talked about the 
Last December, two wolves in different parts of the state were mistaken for coyotes and shot; Iowa DNR wildlife biologist Vince Evelsizer explains why the shooters were not charged. Then, Matt O’Neal of ISU’s Entomology Department follows up on a 
Lyndsay Nissen, Ames native, artist, and visionary community builder, bought the empty building formerly called the Doughboy grain elevator in the western section of Ames that used to be the town of Ontario (annexed by Ames in 1962). She is turning the building into the 