College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
UI's Aron Aji named 2024 National Book Awards judge
Thursday, March 14, 2024
Aron Aji, director of the Translation programs at Iowa, was named a 2024 National Book Awards judge. He has translated poetry and prose by Turkish writers, including Bilge Karasu, Ferit Edgu, Murathan Mungan, and Ebru Ojen.
Three CLAS faculty members receive humanities scholar awards
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Three College of Liberal Arts and Sciences faculty members recently received awards to support their respective research projects during the next academic year. Jenna Supp-Montgomerie, religious studies and communication studies; Stephanie Miracle, dance; and Jonathan Wilcox, English each received a Developmental Studies Hybridoma Bank (DSHB) Humanities Scholar Award.
Hoadley, DeRoo receive NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Technology Fellowships
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
NASA's Roman Technology Fellowship will supply $500,000 over two years to support their research in space-based instrumentation.
4 faculty members recognized with UI’s highest teaching honor
Thursday, February 29, 2024
Four University of Iowa faculty members are recipients of the 2024 President and Provost Award for Teaching Excellence, recognizing their exceptional and ongoing contributions to student learning and success.
Donika Kelly reads Mary Oliver
Friday, February 23, 2024
On this podcast, Donika Kelly joins Kevin Young to read “One Hundred White-Sided Dolphins on a Summer Day,” by Mary Oliver, and her own poem “Sixteen Center.” Kelly is the author of two poetry collections, and the recipient of an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, a Cave Canem Poetry Prize, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and a Kate Tufts Discovery Award. A founding member of the collective Poets at the End of the World, she teaches at the University of Iowa.
University of Iowa Solves One Big Problem, and Perhaps a Bigger One
Friday, February 16, 2024
Last year, donors contributed $500 million to support local news. And that’s in addition to the tens of millions of dollars of operating losses at billionaire-owned newspapers like the Washington Post and L.A. Times. Then on Jan. 29, higher education joined the fight. That’s when the University of Iowa’s Daily Iowan announced it had acquired two nearby community papers: the Mount Vernon-Lisbon Sun, and the Solon Economist.
Grant awarded to study whether self-regulation promotes healthy lifestyle
Monday, February 12, 2024
A project led by a University of Iowa associate professor will study how self-regulation affects physical activity.
CLAS mathematics faculty member named 2024 AMS Fellow
Friday, February 9, 2024
Mathematics professor Palle Jorgensen hopes the American Mathematical Society fellowship will help him be a better researcher and mentor to his students.
3 CLAS faculty members receive humanities scholar awards
Friday, February 9, 2024
Jenna Supp-Montgomerie, Stephanie Miracle, and Jonathan Wilcox will advance their unique research projects with the funding.
What Drives Kaveh Akbar? The Responsibility of Survival
Friday, February 9, 2024
Kaveh Akbar, director of the English and Creative Writing major at Iowa and associate professor, had a raging addiction and little reason to believe his life would turn out well. Now he has a debut novel, “Martyr!,” which makes you want to “get up and yell.”
From church to the mosque, faith and friends help Iowa’s African immigrants and refugees build a sense of home
Friday, February 9, 2024
Brady G'Sell, assistant professor in Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies, and Osamamen Oba Eduviere, a PhD candidate in Religious Studies, write about how Iowa has become “a home away from home” for a growing population of African immigrants.
Ads, food and gambling galore: 5 essential reads for the Super Bowl
Friday, February 9, 2024
Thomas Oates, chair of the Department of American Studies and associate professor, contributes to this article about a range of football-related topics leading up to Super Bowl LVIII, from the partisan food divide to the numbers behind the biggest gambling bonanza in league history.
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