NEW DATE: 2026 Women Impacting ISU calendar to be unveiled on Feb. 6
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Due to the forecast of extreme cold on Friday, Jan. 23, the Women Impacting ISU Calendar reception originally scheduled for that day has been postponed until Friday, Feb. 6.
The 2026 Women Impacting ISU calendar will be officially unveiled during an open-house reception and program recognizing the honorees on Friday, February 6, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the Sun Room of the Memorial Union.
The program, which will be livestreamed, begins at 4 p.m. and will include honoree recognition, a performance by the Iowa State treble-voice ensemble Cantamus, and the calendar reveal. Calendars will be available for distribution immediately after the program.
To mark the 20th anniversary of the calendar, the 2026 calendar will be a special commemorative edition featuring women who had left Iowa State before the publication of the first calendar in 2007.
Honorees for the 2026 calendar are:
- Molly Benson, BS ‘97 business
- Corinne (Muncy) Brown, BS ‘60 home economics education and staff member, 1981-2005
- Stephanie Law, BS ‘06 physics
- Vera Martinovich, BS ‘88 aerospace engineering
- Trudy Huskamp Peterson, BA ‘67 English, history and speech communication
- Laura Phillips, BS ‘05 chemical and biological engineering
- Lola Placeway, BS 1895 chemistry and Department of Chemistry faculty member, 1898-1913
- Shannan Potts, BS ‘04 mechanical engineering
- Laura Talbot Seidensticker, BS ‘89 aerospace engineering
- Evonne Johnson Smith, BS ‘68 textiles and clothing
- Rowena Edson Stevens, BS 1873 agriculture
- Kate (Nelson) Terrell, BS ‘02 horticulture
Copies of the calendar will be available after Feb. 6 at various campus locations, including the Catt Center, Sloss House, Beardshear Hall and the Memorial Union. If you would like calendars for distribution at your campus office, please email the Catt Center at cattcntr@iastate.edu.
The Catt Center sponsors the calendar with funding provided by the Office of the Senior Vice President and Provost.
Visit the Catt Center’s website to see previous calendars and a list of past honorees.