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  • Professor Jo Mackiewicz working in a welding shop.
    4 decades after the landmark book ‘Alone in a Crowd,’ women in the trades still battle bias

    Jo Mackiewicz, professor in the Department English and a welder, reflects on whether women still battle equality in trade occupations, decades after the publication of Jean Reith Schroedel’s landmark book, "Alone in a Crowd: Women in the Trades Tell Their Stories."

    September 18, 2025

  • Jared Anderson and an image of a rock with circuitry
    Jared Anderson to present Fall ’25 Dean’s Distinguished Lecture

    Jared Anderson, Alice Hudson Professor in the Department of Chemistry, will deliver the Fall 2025 LAS Dean’s Distinguished Lecture.

    September 16, 2025

  • Kaili Meyer
    Keeping AI-generated content authentic

    Where some see artificial intelligence (AI) flattening human creativity, Kaili Meyer (‘17 journalism and mass communication) sees an opportunity to prove that authenticity and individuality are still the heart of communication. As founder of the sales and web copywriting company Reveal Studio Co., Meyer built her business and later included…

    September 5, 2025

  • Sithmi Hewage
    Interns: How LAS students spent their summer 

    Summer offers college students the chance to get ahead and distinguish themselves through internships, research, and other hands-on learning experiences. As a new academic year begins, three College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) students reflect on their summer of learning, growing, and preparing for what’s next. Sithmi Hewage Sithmi…

    September 2, 2025

  • PIRI team led by Robbyn Anand, Department of Chemistry
    Robbyn Anand leads team that will tackle critical water challenges

    The leaders of the latest Presidential Interdisciplinary Research Initiative (PIRI), led my Associate Professor Robbyn Anand, Department of Chemistry, are leveraging the best insight and knowledge and latest technology of our time to deliver innovative and impactful solutions for improving water purification for human health and national defense purposes.

    August 20, 2025

  • Diana Thatcher, an Iowa State lecturer and researcher in earth, atmosphere and climate, collects clam specimens during a June 2024 research trip to the Gulf of Maine.
    Tracking Gulf of Maine acidity, outlook for commercial shellfisheries

    A team of researchers led by Alan Wanamaker, professor in the Department of the Earth, Atmosphere, and Climate, studied the annual bands built by crustose coralline algae to help build a history of seawater chemistry in the Gulf of Maine.

    August 20, 2025

  • Katie Dentzman
    Food, pesticides, and public perception: What’s behind the label?

    What do you really know about the pesticides on your food? For many consumers, the answer is not much. Ask Katie Dentzman, a rural sociologist at Iowa State University, who is examining neonicotinoid use in potato production and what it means for agriculture, regulation, and the environment.

    August 15, 2025

  • Promotional graphic for Iowa State University's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The background shows a red-tinted campus building framed by trees. Bold white text announces the LAS Fall 2025 Convocation and Awards ceremony, with a celebratory "Congratulations!" at the bottom.
    Celebrate LAS faculty and staff at the 2025 Fall Convocation and Awards Ceremony

    The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is proud to recognize the exceptional achievements of its faculty and staff. More than 50 individuals have been selected as recipients of 2025 LAS faculty and staff awards, honoring their dedication and impact. Awardees will be celebrated at the LAS Fall Convocation and…

    August 12, 2025