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  • Peter Orazem Receives Fulbright Specialist Award to Slovenia at University of Primorska

    The U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board are pleased to announce that Peter Orazem of Iowa State University has received a Fulbright Specialist Program award. Dr. Orazem will complete a project at University of Primorska in Slovenia that aims to exchange knowledge and establish partnerships benefiting…

    August 30, 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

  • Spenser Leise
    CYstarters spotlight: Spenser Leise

    Spenser Leise ('26 advertising) developed his business, Songbird Music Décor, when he couldn't find music posters that fit his aesthetic.

    July 24, 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

  • Tess Neal profiled in the Association for Psychological Science

    Tess Neal, Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology, was recently featured on the Association for Psychological Science’s website, profiling psychologists who earned an early career “rising star” award who later became fellows. You can read the article here: https://www.psychologicalscience.org/publications/observer/member-spotlight-tess-neal.html…

    May 15, 2024