College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
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.
Stresses strengthen disease-causing yeast
Tuesday, January 9, 2024
University of Iowa biologists have found that a yeast species that can be hazardous to human health can become more resistant when exposed to a prior, mild stress. The researchers also learned this trait does not exist in a close relative, brewer’s or baker’s yeast.
New graduates celebrated at fall 2023 commencement
Monday, December 18, 2023
They did it! Almost 1,700 students received their degrees at fall 2023 commencement ceremonies Dec. 14—17.
Dates, times of fall 2023 commencement ceremonies announced
Wednesday, December 6, 2023
On Dec. 14–17, nearly 1,700 University of Iowa students will receive their degrees during in-person and livestreamed commencement ceremonies, beginning with the College of Education’s undergraduate and Teacher Education Program recognition Dec. 14 and concluding with the College of Engineering undergraduate ceremony Dec. 17.
Among American Chefs, the Israel-Hamas War Has Spread to Food
Monday, November 20, 2023
A recent petition signed by nearly 900 food professionals calling for a cease-fire raises, once again, questions of contested cuisines.
UI professor receives NASA grant
Monday, November 20, 2023
University of Iowa professor Gregory Howes has received a grant from NASA to study how particles in space are accelerated to high energy.
NASA’s robotic prospectors are helping scientists understand what asteroids are made of – setting the stage for miners to follow someday
Tuesday, November 7, 2023
The commercialization of asteroid mining is still a ways off, but in October 2023, NASA launched a scientific mission to explore the metal-rich asteroid Psyche. The main goal of the mission is studying the composition and structure of this asteroid, which could tell scientists more about Earth’s core since the two objects might have a similar makeup.
UI plans remodeling, expansion of Iowa Advanced Technology Laboratories
Tuesday, October 31, 2023
The University of Iowa plans to remodel and expand the Iowa Advanced Technology Laboratories—one of its most unique buildings—to create a permanent home for one of its fast-growing programs of study.
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