College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Hagle says most Republicans can live with Romney

Monday, August 13, 2012
University of Iowa political science professor Tim Hagle comments on how Iowans feel about Mitt Romney in a story on the role Iowa has played in launching and now potentially sinking President Barack Obama.

Eastern exposure

Monday, August 13, 2012
A group of University of Iowa professors and local media professionals traveled to Turkey to learn about Turkish media and culture in the hope of building further relationships with educational institutions and media entities in that country.
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Embrace your inner North Dakotan

Monday, August 13, 2012
Perlmutter offers Ph.D.s advice on making the most of a tight job market in higher education.

Arnone and friends open UI music season

Monday, August 13, 2012
A free concert featuring University of Iowa faculty cellist Anthony Arnone and seven other musicians will open the 2012-13 performance season of the UI School of Music Monday, Aug. 26, in the Riverside Recital Hall.

Alumna Sloane writes about 'The Newsroom'

Wednesday, August 8, 2012
English alumna Cathryn Sloane writes about the TV series The Newsroom.

Biology prof elected to Academia Sinica

Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Chun-Fang Wu, professor of biology in the University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, was elected as a prestigious academician of Academia Sinica, the most preeminent academic institution in Taiwan.

Writing alumna Schmidt is interviewed

Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Heidi Jon Schmidt, an alumna of the University of Iowa Iowa Writers' Workshop, is interviewed about her new novel.

Icelandic scholars to converge at UI to discuss economic meltdown Aug. 12-14

Monday, August 6, 2012
More than two dozen Icelandic social scientists from Iceland, Canada, and the United States will converge on the University of Iowa campus Aug. 12-14, to debate, discuss, and dissect the Icelandic economic meltdown.
student and faculty conducting research

Discoveries in the lab

Monday, August 6, 2012
More than 30 students from around the world converged on the University of Iowa campus this summer for six weeks doing innovative research in a biology lab. Their experiences were part of the University of Iowa College of Education’s Belin-Blank Center's Secondary Student Training Program.

Did You Know?: Weather talk

Monday, August 6, 2012
What weather term was coined at the University of Iowa?

Lewis-Beck: predicting elections with data

Thursday, August 2, 2012
University of Iowa political science emeritus Michael Lewis-Beck has developed an election-prediction model that sifts decades of data.

UI Council on Disability Awareness announces new officers

Wednesday, August 1, 2012
The University of Iowa Council on Disability Awareness (CDA) recently announced its new officers for 2012-13—Carly Armour, Teresa Kout, Kathy Ford, and Deanna Carter.