Archive: 2020

Anand recognized for research

June 5, 2020

Katherine Rafferty publishes case study in Health Communication

Katherine Rafferty, assistant teaching professor in the Department of Psychology recently published a case study in Health Communication. The study, #AbortionChangesYou: A Case Study to Understand the Communicative Tensions in Women’s Medication Abortion Narratives, is one of the first to analyze women’s narratives after having had a medication abortion. Health…

June 3, 2020

LAS faculty and staff honored with university awards

Seventeen individuals from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences were selected as recipients of Iowa State University awards.

June 3, 2020

Faculty and staff honored with 2020 LAS Awards

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) is pleased to announce and celebrate its exemplary faculty and staff with the 2020 Liberal Arts and Sciences and Iowa State University awards recipients.

June 3, 2020

Alex Gonzalez, assistant professor of geological and atmospheric sciences earns $316,000 grant from the National Science Foundation

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Alex Gonzalez, assistant professor in the Department of Geological and Atmospheric sciences, a $316,0000 grant. The award will fund his research as well as broad-impact outreach activities through Iowa State University’s Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) program. Gonzalez’s research, “Nonlinear Dynamics of…

June 2, 2020

Hridesh receives Facebook award

Hridesh Rajan, Kingland Professor and interim chair of the Department of Computer Science, was selected to receive a Facebook Probability and Programming Award for his project “Manas: Big Code Assisted Neural Architecture Search.”…

June 1, 2020

Jacob Erickson receives spring 2020 research excellence award

Jacob Erickson, who earned a Ph.D. in sociology this spring, delves into the minds of criminals to understand what makes them tick. In honor of his exceptional research, Erickson received a spring 2020 Graduate College Research Excellence Award, which recognizes graduate students for their outstanding research accomplishments as documented in…

May 28, 2020

DeLisi, Hochstetler receive exemplary mentor awards

Matthew DeLisi, Distinguished Professor and College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean’s Professor, and Andrew Hochstetler, professor of sociology, have been recognized by the Office of the Senior Vice President and Provost as faculty members who have demonstrated exemplary mentoring of junior faculty. The 2020 Exemplary Faculty Mentor Award recognizes…

May 27, 2020