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Tracy Lucht awarded Best Article prize by American Journalism Historians Association

American Journalism, the peer-reviewed quarterly journal of the American Journalism Historians Association, awarded its 2022 Best Article prize to Tracy Lucht, associate professor in the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication at Iowa State University. This annual award honors the best of the best scholarship that was published in American Journalism between Summer 2021 and … Continue reading Tracy Lucht awarded Best Article prize by American Journalism Historians Association

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Ann Oberhauser delivers keynote at International Conference on Crisis, Recovery and Gender

Ann M. Oberhauser, professor in the Department of Sociology, delivered a keynote address at the International Conference on Crisis, Recovery and Gender. The July conference was held at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain and was organized by the International Geographical Union Commission on Gender and Geography. The title of Oberhauser’s talk was “Work in … Continue reading Ann Oberhauser delivers keynote at International Conference on Crisis, Recovery and Gender

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Nell Gabiam and Scott Feinstein awarded National Science Foundation grant

Nell Gabiam and Scott Feinstein have been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study the integration of Ukrainian refugees into the United States. Gabiam, associate professor in the Department of World Languages and Cultures, and Feinstein, associate professor in the Department of Political Science, will serve as co-principal investigators on the … Continue reading Nell Gabiam and Scott Feinstein awarded National Science Foundation grant

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Liz Hergert voted president-elect of Career Professionals of Iowa

Liz Hergert, career advisor for Career Services in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, has been voted president-elect of Career Professionals of Iowa (CPI) for 2022-2023. Hergert will ascend to the position of president for 2023-2024. During the following year, she will serve as past president. CPI is a network of educators, employers, students … Continue reading Liz Hergert voted president-elect of Career Professionals of Iowa

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National Weather Association honors William Gallus with Dr. T. Theodore Fujita Research Achievement award for 2022

William Gallus, professor in the Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences, has earned the 2022 Dr. T. Theodore Fujita Research Achievement award from the National Weather Association (NWA). This award is presented to an NWA member whose research has made a significant contribution to operational meteorology. Gallus won the award for his decades of achievements … Continue reading National Weather Association honors William Gallus with Dr. T. Theodore Fujita Research Achievement award for 2022

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Junqi Li awarded $313,600 National Institutes of Health grant

Junqi Li, assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry, has been awarded a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for her research “Atom-swapping reaction sequences enabled by decarbonylation and decarboxylation.” The $313,600 grant, issued by the NIH’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences, will fund Li’s studies until May 2023. Li’s research in … Continue reading Junqi Li awarded $313,600 National Institutes of Health grant