Melissa Deininger gives invited talk on André Chénier

Melissa Deininger, assistant teaching professor in the Department of World Languages and Cultures, recently gave an invited talk at the University of Iowa on André Chénier. André Chénier became a classic martyr figure for Romanticists, who were inspired both by his poetry and his death at the hands…

December 8, 2025

The value of particle physics

Iowa State University physics and astronomy associate professor Matthew Wetstein advances research to understand one of the universe's most abundant yet mysterious particles: neutrinos.

December 5, 2025

Brian Behnken publishes book on law enforcement and civil rights in the Southwest

Brian D. Behnken, professor in the Department of History, recently published a book, Brown and Blue: Mexican Americans, Law Enforcement, and Civil Rights in the Southwest, 1935–2025 with the University of North Carolina Press.

December 3, 2025

Pablo Raúl Stinga to receive 2026 Levi L. Conant prize

Pablo Raúl Stinga, professor in the Department of Mathematics,  will be awarded the 2026 Levi L. Conant Prize by the American Mathematical Society for his article “Fractional Derivatives: Fourier, Elephants, Memory Effects, Viscoelastic Materials, and Anomalous Diffusions,” published in Notices of the AMS. The paper offers an…

December 2, 2025

Manisha Sharma to publish poem in The Bellingham Review

Manisha Sharma, assistant teaching professor in the Department of English, has poetry forthcoming in The Bellingham Review. Her fiction is a finalist for the Cream City Review 2025 Summer Fiction Contest. The poem, “Epilepsy” will be published in their 92nd Spring/Summer issue in June 2026.

November 19, 2025

Tonglu Li publishes Chinese translation of Jesus and Lao Tzu: The Parallel Sayings with Commentaries

Tonglu Li, associate professor in the Department of World Languages and Cultures, along with two collaborators, recently published the Chinese translation of Martin Aronson’s “Jesus and Lao Tzu: The Parallel Sayings with Commentaries” with The Commercial Press (Hong Kong). The book offers a comparative study of the New Testament and…

November 19, 2025

Be kind to others, it can be good for your own health, mind

Iowa State University psychology professor Douglas Gentile says even thinking kind thoughts can have a powerful effect.

November 13, 2025

Pablo Raúl Stinga delivers invited plenary lecture at American Mathematical Society conference

On Saturday October 18, 2025, Professor Pablo Raúl Stinga delivered the invited plenary lecture entitled “Regularity of solutions to nonlinear elliptic PDE problems involving surfaces” at the 2025 American Mathematical Society (AMS) Fall Central Sectional Meeting held on October 18-19 at St. Louis University, in St. Louis, Missouri. The AMS…

October 22, 2025