Archive: 2021

Karen Kedrowski publishes research in the Journal of Convention & Event Tourism

Karen Kedrowski, director of the Carrie Chapman Catt Center, has published an article, “Students’ perceptions of experiential learning in a political events course: A case study from Iowa.” The article was published in the Journal of Convention & Event Tourism.

April 2, 2021

Amy Erica Smith quoted in New York Times article

Amy Erica Smith, a Liberal Arts and Sciences dean’s professor and associate professor of political science, was quoted in a recent New York Times article, “Brazil’s Armed Forces Chiefs Resign Abruptly Amid Cabinet Shake-Up.” Smith is considered an expert on Brazil. She is frequently quoted in high-profile publications as an…

April 2, 2021

Graduate programs in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences ranked among best by U.S. News and World Report

English, economics, sociology, and history shine in humanities category.

April 1, 2021

Two Iowa State students named Goldwater Scholars

LAS student Benjamin Litterer, a junior majoring in data science and French, is one of two Iowa State students who earned this national honor.

March 31, 2021

Charlie Nagle publishes paper in Studies in Second Language Acquisition

Charlie Nagle, associate professor of Spanish, has co-authored a paper entitled “Beyond Linguistic Features: Exploring behavioral and affective correlates of comprehensible second language speech.” The paper appears in Studies in Second Language Acquisition, which is published by Cambridge University Press. The paper explores the factors that make it…

March 31, 2021

Associate Professor Wei Le earns grant from the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University

Associate Professor Wei Le in the Department of Computer Sciences, has received a grant from the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Le received funding for the Rapid Adjudication of Static Analysis Alerts During Continuous Integration (CI) project. This project aims to develop algorithms and tools for matching static…

March 30, 2021

Hridesh Rajan named general chair for SPLASH 2021

Hridesh Rajan, Kingland Professor and chair in the Department of Computer Science, will serve as the general chair for SPLASH 2021, the ACM SIGPLAN conference on Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity. The conference, to be held in Chicago from October 17 to October 22, is a premier…

March 30, 2021

Associate Teaching Professor Adisak Sukul named Google Cloud Faculty Expert

Associate Teaching Professor Adisak Sukul has been selected as a Google Cloud Faculty Expert for 2020-21, for the second continuous year. The Google Cloud Faculty Expert rewards Google Cloud’s top faculty advocates with professional development, recognition, networking opportunities, and access to Google developers for helping other educators explore the…

March 30, 2021