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Archive: 2021

  • Richard R. Phillips receives LAS Distinguished Service Award

    Richard R. Phillips (’78 journalism and mass communication) is the recipient of the Distinguished Service Award from the Iowa State University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Phillips was recognized at the Iowa State University Alumni Association’s 89th Annual Honors & Awards Ceremony April 7, 2021. The Distinguished Service Award…

    May 10, 2021

  • Dara Wald co-edits special issue of Frontiers in Communication

    Dara Wald, assistant professor in the Greelee School of Journalism, has co-edited a special issue of Frontiers in Communication. The issue is focused on the role of trust in Natural Resource Management. The full special issue is available here: Advancing a Cross Boundary Social Science of Trust in…

    May 10, 2021

  • Hongyang Gao earns $175,000 National Science Foundation CISE Research Initiation Grant

    Hongyang Gao, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, has earned a $175,000 CISE Research Initiation Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). This grant was issued through the NSF’s Information Integration and Informatics program. The grant will fund Gao’s research into graph neural networks, until June 2023.

    May 10, 2021

  • East Hall, Iowa State campus
    Department of Sociology adopts a new name

    Beginning July 1, the Department of Sociology will change its name to better reflect students' growing interest in criminal justice.

    May 10, 2021

  • John Grundy’s research featured in Discover Magazine

    John Grundy’s research is the subject of an article that was recently published in Discover Magazine. Grundy is an assistant professor and neuroscientist in the Department of Psychology. The article, “How Learning A Language Changes Your Brain” features Grundy’s research-based findings which show that learning a new language…

    May 6, 2021

  • Graduating senior Noah Kutz stands in front of the Physics Building
    Physics student launches space science career

    Noah Kutz has been accepted into the Graduate Space Systems program at the U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology, a highly competitive military graduate school.

    May 5, 2021

  • Shawn Dorius, Data Science for the Public Good team receive Interdisciplinary Team Research Award

    Shawn Dorius, associate professor of sociology, and members of the Data Science for the Public Good team received the Interdisciplinary Team Research Award from Iowa State University. The award recognizes an interdisciplinary team of faculty researchers (at least two or more) with outstanding achievements who have made a significant contribution…

    May 5, 2021

  • Student marshal Brenda Goh poses in her cap and gown
    Brenda Goh selected as student marshal

    Goh, a double major in political science and psychology, has demonstrated stellar leadership skills, outstanding academics and notable achievements in undergraduate research.

    May 4, 2021