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  • LAS faculty and staff honored by YWCA Ames-ISU

    Several faculty and staff of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences were recently honored by the YWCA Ames-ISU for its 2026 Women of Achievement awards.  The honorees include: Jennifer Rodgers – Department of Music and Theatre Carrie Ann Johnson – Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice Karen Kedrowski –…

    March 30, 2026

  • Hugo Salgado awarded grant from the Foundation for Endangered Languages

    Hugo Salgado, assistant professor in the Department: World Languages and Cultures, has been awarded a grant from the Foundation for Endangered Languages (FEL) to support Nawat Story Circles, a community-based language revitalization initiative in Santo Domingo de Guzmán (Witzapan), El Salvador. The project builds on Dr. Salgado’s audiovisual repository Ini…

    March 16, 2026

  • Michael Golemo named NFHS Outstanding Music Educator Award Winner

    Michael Golemo, Director of Bands and University Professor of Music, was recently selected by the National Federation of State High School Associations to receive the 2026 National Outstanding Music Educator Award. The NFHS Citation is one of the most highly regarded honors in high school athletics and performing arts and…

    March 13, 2026

  • Amy Rutenberg named to Scholars Advisory Council of the National Women’s History Museum

    Amy Rutenberg, was recently named to the Scholars Advisory Council of the National Women’s History Museum. The museum, founded in 1996,  works to illuminate the stories of women who have shaped our past and who continue to inform our shared future.

    March 4, 2026

  • Mahdi Duris awarded development grant from ISU Postdoctoral Affairs

    Mahdi Duris, postdoctoral research associate in the Department of English, has received a $1,000 Postdoc Professional Development Grant from Postdoctoral Affairs (Office of the Senior Vice President and Provost). The award supports career and professional development activities that strengthen postdoctoral training through scholarly and leadership engagement.

    March 4, 2026

  • Tonglu Li receives education leadership award from Chinese Association of Iowa

    Tonglu Li, associate professor in the Department of World Languages and Cultures, was recently invited by the Chinese Association of Iowa to join the panel discussion, “U.S.-Asia Relations, Business Opportunities and Challenges,” as part of the 2026 Chinese New Year Celebration. Contextualizing his remarks within Asian American history, dating back…

    February 25, 2026

  • Brett VanVeller, associate professor of chemistry, awarded Bailey Research Career Award

    Brett VanVeller, associate professor in the Department of Chemistry, has been awarded The Bailey Research Career Development Award for his lab’s research into unlocking bottromycin, a relatively rare antibiotic with a unique mechanism that could outsmart resistant bacteria. 2026 Bailey Award to support research into new antibiotic class From the Office…

    February 11, 2026

  • Pablo Raúl Stinga to receive 2026 Levi L. Conant prize

    Pablo Raúl Stinga, professor in the Department of Mathematics,  will be awarded the 2026 Levi L. Conant Prize by the American Mathematical Society for his article “Fractional Derivatives: Fourier, Elephants, Memory Effects, Viscoelastic Materials, and Anomalous Diffusions,” published in Notices of the AMS. The paper offers an…

    December 2, 2025