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  • Michael Golemo awarded Karl King Distinguished Service Award

    Michael Golemo, Director of Bands in the Department of Music and Theater, was recently awarded the 2025 “Karl King Distinguished Service Award” from the Iowa Bandmasters Association. This is their highest honor, awarded annually to an active band director in the state of Iowa.

    August 4, 2025

  • Michael Bailey publishes volume for Bloomsbury’s “Cultural History of Magic”

    Michael Bailey, Distinguished Professor in the Department of History, recently edited and published “A Cultural History of Magic in the Middle Ages” with colleague Claire Fanger. The work is part of a 6 Volume Cultural History of Magic series published by Bloomsbury. You can find out more information on the…

    August 4, 2025

  • Michael Bugeja to receive Honorary Doctorate of Literature at the University of Malta

    Michael Bugeja, Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication, has been selected for an Honorary Doctorate of Literature at the University of Malta. He will receive the honor at a ceremony in November at the University of Malta.

    August 4, 2025

  • Debra Marquart awarded Winter 2025 Prose award from Narrative Magazine

    Debra Marquart, Distinguished Professor in the Department of English, was recently awarded the Winter 2025 Prose Award from Narrative Magazine for her essay, “How Fish Learned to Sing.” The essay is a chapter from Marquart’s in progress memoir by the same name, which is about her lifetime love affair with…

    August 4, 2025

  • Paul Spry named a Fellow of the Geological Society of America

    Paul Spry, emeritus professor in the Department of the Earth, Atmosphere and Climate was was recently named a Fellow of the Geological Society of America.

    August 4, 2025

  • Confetti behind words Congratulations LAS Alumni
    LAS Honors and Awards Ceremony to recognize distinguished alumni

    Iowa State University’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) will recognize the achievements of its distinguished alumni at the annual LAS Honors and Awards Ceremony on Thursday, Oct. 23. The ceremony takes place during Iowa State’s 2025 Homecoming Week, which will celebrate Cyclone pride with the theme “Lights, Camera,…

    July 24, 2025

  • Matt Hufford and colleagues awarded NSF EPSCoR Graduate Fellowship Program (EGFP) grant

    Matt Hufford, Cassling Family Professor in the Department of Ecology Evolution and Organismal Biology, along his colleagues, have been awarded an NSF EPSCoR Graduate Fellowship Program (EGFP) grant by the National Science Foundation. The program is entitled “EPSCoR Graduate Fellowship Program (EGFP): Iowa State University – Training the next Generation…

    July 15, 2025

  • Stephen Biggs
    The logic of belief: How do we know what’s true?

    At first glance, philosophy and science might seem worlds apart – one grounded in careful reasoning, the other in measurable experiments. But for Iowa State Associate Professor of Philosophy Stephen Biggs, both disciplines are driven by a shared goal: figuring out what’s true.

    July 15, 2025