
Iowa State community remembers an accomplished alumnus
About 550 admirers of alumnus George Washington Carver, joined by more than 100 online, celebrated the state's inaugural Carver Day on February 1 in the Memorial Union Great Hall. Carver, born to slaves in southwest Missouri in 1864, was Iowa State's first Black student and earned bachelor's and master's degrees from the university. Carver stayed on for a bit at Iowa State as the college's first Black faculty member, before Booker T. Washington's invitation drew him to the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, where he would live and work until his death in 1943.