Author Archives: Troy Rutter

Daniela Dimitrova invited to Global Perspectives in Communication editorial board

Daniela Dimitrova, University Professor and LAS Dean’s Professor in the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication, has been invited to join the Editorial Board of a new International Communication Association (ICA) journal titled Global Perspectives in Communication. Published by Oxford, ICA is the largest international communication association in the world.

June 19, 2025

Karen Kedrowski honored by League of Women Voters

Karen Kedrowski, Director of the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics, has received the 2025 Making Democracy Work award from the League of Women Voters, Ames and Story County.

June 16, 2025

Tess Neal publishes article in Nature Reviews Psychology

Tess Neal, Associate Professor and LAS Dean’s Professor of Psychology, recently published an article in Nature Reviews Psychology titled, “Psychological insights for judging expertise and implications for adversarial legal context.” Martire, K.A., Neal, T.M.S., Gobet, F., Chin, J., Berengut, J.F., & Edmond, G. (2025). Psychological insights for judging expertise and…

June 16, 2025

Angela Hakim receives Professional Development Funds for Term Faculty award

Angela Hakim, lecturer in the Department of English, was recently awarded $1,000 from the Office of the Senior Vice President and Provost for Iowa State University Professional Development Funds for Term Faculty funding. The award will be used to travel to the Symposium on Second Language Writing conference in Taipei,…

June 16, 2025

How personality traits shape sleep quality

Zlatan Krizan (Hannah Olson-Wright) According to research by an Iowa State University psychologist, how well you sleep may depend as much on your personality as it does on your habits. Zlatan Krizan, professor of psychology, has spent more than a decade studying how personality traits affect both the perception and…

June 9, 2025

Burak Senel publishes in Journal of English for Academic Purposes

Burak Senel, Ph.D. student in Applied Linguistics and Technology, recently published an article in the Journal of English for Academic Purposes titled “Student Question Types and Subject-Position Pronominal Choices: An Exploratory Frequency-Based Comparison of Interactive vs. Monologic Academic Lectures.” The article can be read online here.

May 27, 2025

Hugo Salgado awarded grant from Jacobs Research Funds

Hugo Salgado, assistant professor in the Department of World Languages and Cultures, was recently awarded a grant from the Jacobs Research Funds to support his linguistic fieldwork in El Salvador this summer. His project, titled Ini Tay Tinat (“This is What We Say”), is a language documentation project aimed at…

May 14, 2025

Sarah Haughn publishes article in Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies

Sarah Haughn, lecturer in the Department of English, recently published an article in Vol 49 of Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies — “On the Trouble with Making Kin.” You can view the article at https://utppublishing.com/doi/10.3138/topia-2023-0061.

May 14, 2025