Author Archives: Troy Rutter

Shalini Ajay Singh publishes poem in Live Wire

Shalini Ajay Singh, M.F.A. candidate in Creative Writing and the Environment, recently published “Astro,” in Live Wire.

March 20, 2024

Shalini Ajay Singh publishes poem in Berkeley Poetry Review

Shalini Ajay Singh, M.F.A. candidate in Creative Writing and the Environment, recently published “Opprobrium,” in Berkeley Poetry Review.

March 20, 2024

Shalini Ajay Singh publishes speculative apocalyptic fiction

Shalini Ajay Singh, M.F.A. candidate in Creative Writing and the Environment, recently published “Remembering an atom time,” in SUSPECT (Singapore Unbound).

March 20, 2024

Shalini Ajay Singh awarded Best in Show

Shalini Ajay Singh, M.F.A. candidate in the Department of English creative writing and environment program and current program assistant for Iowa State University, recently won The Best in Show in the Studies in Creativity award for three prose poems and are exhibited at the MU Gallery from February 11 –…

March 5, 2024

Corey Welch honored with IDEA Award

The Society for the Study of Evolution recently announced Dr. Corey Welch, Director of the LAS STEM Scholars Program, has received the ASN/SSE/SSB IDEA Award. Dr. Corey Welch will present his work during the IDEA Award Plenary at the in-person portion of the Evolution 2024 meeting in Montreal this July.

March 5, 2024

Sarah Dees publishes article in Routledge

Sarah Dees, Assistant Professor of American Religions in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, recently published a chapter in the book,  Selling the Sacred: Religion and Marketing from Crossfit to QAnon, published by Routledge. The chapter is titled, “Spiritual Healing for Sale: Medical Pluralism and the Commodification of Native…

February 26, 2024

Lindsay Preseau publishes chapter in Multilingualism Matters

Lindsay Preseau and her co-authors, LeAnne Spino and Niko Tracksdorf, published a chapter entitled “Gender Inclusivity Across the Curriculum: An Exploration of Novice and Advanced Course Content through Student Perspectives” in the Multilingualism Matters edited volume “Redoing Linguistic Worlds: Unmaking Gender Binaries, Remaking Gender Pluralities” Link: https://www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/Redoing-Linguistic-Worlds/?k=9781800415089…

February 14, 2024

Jeremy Best awarded Franklin Research Grant

Jeremy Best, associate professor in the Department of History, was recently awarded a Franklin Research Grant by the American Philosophical Society. The Franklin program is designed to help meet the costs of travel to libraries and archives for research purposes; the purchase of microfilm, photocopies, or equivalent research materials; the…

February 9, 2024