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Archive: 2020

  • Julia Zaikina receives Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF)

    Julia Zaikina, assistant professor of chemistry, has been granted a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF).  Zaikina received the award for her proposal on intermetallic synthesis by theory and in-situ studies.  This CAREER grant was…

    January 15, 2020

  • Rachel Meyers published in the journal Ancient Society

    Rachel Meyers, assistant professor of classical studies, published “On Her Own: Practices of Female Benefaction in the Western Roman Empire” in the 2019 volume of the journal Ancient Society. In this article Meyers uses a quantitative approach in analyzing a body of over 400 Latin inscriptions from the…

    January 13, 2020

  • Students enact a mock trial as one points to geographic sketches.
    Mock trial jury returns verdict of “Guilty” – with a twist

    News from the Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences: The 17th annual “A Civil Action” mock trial on December 5, 2019 produced an overwhelming 14-5 jury verdict of “Guilty,” making it two guilty verdicts in a row for the plaintiffs’ team. “In this year’s trial, the use of a scale…

    January 10, 2020

  • Shannon Harper receives dissertation award

    Shannon Harper, assistant professor of sociology, received the Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Graduate College and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago last month for her dissertation, “A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Neighborhood Domestic Violence Resources and Intimate Partner Homicide.” Harper’s research uses…

    January 7, 2020

  • Cardiac muscle fibers of a fruit fly, under a microscope - resembles thick and thin ribbons.
    Researchers restore function of heart muscles in aging fruit flies

    Study of cardiac muscles in flies might help you keep your heart young.

    January 7, 2020

  • Matthew W. Sivils book “Sir Rohan’s Ghost. A Romance” published by Anthem Press

    Matthew W. Sivils, professor of English, recently published “Sir Rohan’s Ghost. A Romance.” The book was published by Anthem Press. Originally published in 1860, the formative Gothic noel by Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835-1921), one of the nineteenth-century America’s most significan woman writers, relates the tale of a tormented British artistocrat…

    January 7, 2020

  • Students performing on stage
    ISU Theatre’s “Iowa Odyssey or (How We Got to Here)” earns top honor

    The production will perform at January's Region 5 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

    January 6, 2020

  • Museums Inside Out published

    Museums Inside Out Artist Collaborations and New Exhibition Ecologies by Mark W. Rectanus An ambitious study of what it means to be a museum in the twenty-first century In Museums Inside Out, Mark W. Rectanus investigates how museums are blurring the boundaries between their gallery walls and public…

    January 6, 2020