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Author Archives: Troy Rutter

  • Sarah Dees publishes in Journal of Religious Ethics

    Sarah Dees, Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, recently published the advance version of her article, “Religion, Race, and the Limit of Ethics” in the Journal of Religious Ethics.

    August 20, 2024

  • Zeta Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa receives national award

    Iowa State University’s Zeta Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa recently received one of five national outstanding chapter awards for the last Triennium (2021-24). The chapter was especially noted for their high induction rate and especially high acceptance rate. For over 200 years, election to Phi Beta Kappa has been a…

    August 7, 2024

  • Abram Anders named inaugural Jonathan Wickert Professor of Innovation

    Abram Anders, Associate Professor of English and Associate Director of the Student Innovation Center, has recently been named as the inaugural Jonathan Wickert Professor of Innovation by President Wendy Wintersteen of Iowa State University.

    August 7, 2024

  • Course facilitated by Katherine Rafferty earns Quality Matters Certification

    Communication Studies 2180, Conflict Management, has earned a Quality Matters (QM) Certification. The course is designed and facilitated by Katherine Rafferty, associate teaching professor in the Department of Psychology. QM Certification is a faculty-centered, peer-reviewed audit that evaluates online and hybrid courses with a research-based rubric. A review committee…

    August 7, 2024

  • Shalini Ajay Singh publishes chapter from work-in-progress thesis

    Shalini Ajay Singh recently published a literary creative non-fiction essay/chapter from their work-in-progress thesis, Lullaby into the Microphone, entitled “Iowa= Gujarat (?)” in Issue 74 of Hayden’s Ferry Review.

    June 11, 2024

  • Karen Kedrowski earns Ask Every Student Grant

    Karen Kedrowski, director of the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics and professor in the Department of Political Science, has received an Ask Every Student Grant. The $5,000 grant will fund efforts at Iowa State University to promote student voter participation during the 2024 election cycle. Ask Every…

    June 11, 2024

  • Mariana Castro Azpíroz chosen for Richard R. Wright Award

    Mariana Castro Azpíroz, graduate student in the MFA in Creative Writing and Environment program in the Department of English, was recently chosen as the recipient of the Richard R. Wright Award by the Department of English. This award is given annually to a graduate student with demonstrated ability in expository…

    May 15, 2024

  • NSF Awards $1.2 million to determine the function of plasmodesmata as redox signaling hubs

    Joe Aung, Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetics, Development, and Cell Biology was recently awarded a $830,000 amended grant, bringing the total funded by the National Science Foundation to $1.2 million for his research in determining the function of plasmodesmata as redox signaling hubs. The award is part of…

    May 15, 2024