Archive: 2020

Nell Gabiam honored with LAS Dean’s Emerging Faculty Leaders Award

Gabiam's research focuses on the politics of humanitarian and development aid in Palestinian refugee camps.

September 9, 2020

ISU Theatre costume shop steps up in the fight against COVID-19

Sewing face masks for hospitals and nonprofits is a perfect fit for their mission of citizen artistry.

September 9, 2020

Simon Cordery earns 2019 George W. and Constance M. Hilton Book Award

Simon Cordery, professor and chair in the Department of History, has earned the 2019 Railway & Locomotive Historical Society’s George W. and Constance M. Hilton Book Award. Cordery won the award for his book, The Iron Road in the Prairie State: The Story of Illinois Railroading (Railroads Past and…

September 8, 2020

Ritushree Chatterjee earns 2020 Distance Education Journal Article (Quantitative) Award

Ristushree Chatterjee, instructional development specialist with Engineering-LAS Online Learning, has earned a first-place ranking in the 2020 Distance Education Journal Article (Quantitative) Awards for her article, “Online Students’ Attitudes Toward Collaborative Learning and Sense of Community.” The award is sponsored by the Division of Distance Learning (DDL) of the…

September 8, 2020

Professor Jonathan Kelly and graduate student Lucia Cherep win 2019 Raymond S. Nickerson Award

Cognitive graduate student, Lucia Cherep and cognitive psychology professor, Jonathan Kelly, have won the 2019 Raymond S. Nickerson Award for the best paper in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, for their paper: Cherep, L. A., Lim, A. F., Kelly, J. W., Acharya, D., Velasco, A., Bustamante, E., Ostrander, A.

September 8, 2020

Chris Low receives LAS Dean’s Emerging Faculty Leaders Award

His research centers on the late Ottoman Empire, the Arabian Peninsula, the Indian Ocean world and environmental history.

September 8, 2020

Sociology, data science and statistics research enhance Iowa study

Study examines Iowa towns with decreased population experiencing same or higher perception of quality of life.

September 8, 2020

Derecho from a storm expert’s perspective

Bill Gallus, professor of atmospheric sciences, weighs in on the storm.

September 2, 2020