13 LAS students receive Dean’s High Impact Undergraduate Research Awards
From musical aptitude to new semiconductors, LAS undergraduates are participating in faculty-led research thanks to the Dean’s High Impact Undergraduate Research Awards.
Category: Research
The quest to understand quark matter
More data than ever is generated by machines that collide nuclei together, giving nuclear physicists the task of making sense of it all.
Despite negative consequences, benevolent sexism helps in search for mate
New research provides an alternative explanation as to why some women respond positively to benevolent sexism such as when a man opens the door on a first date or offers to pay the bill at dinner.
Amy Andreotti among winners of seed grants to launch collaborative bioscience projects
Amy Andreotti was granted one of five seed grants to help researchers on Iowa State University and University of Iowa campuses collaborate and build joint bioscience projects.
For the Birds
Greenlee researchers study how communication can save Guam’s feathered inhabitants.
Jason McCullough shatters a 32-year-old conjecture
Jason McCullough, assistant professor of mathematics, adds to Iowa State’s mathematics reputation with his research that disproves a long-standing conjecture.
All inorganic approach makes better-performing perovskites for solar cells, LEDs
Javier Vela’s research group develops perovskite materials through soft chemistry— low-environmental impact processes that use room temperature and solution-phase reactions.
Liza Alexander selected for inaugural Bioscience Innovation Postdoctoral Fellowship
A new fellowship will support breakthrough research in the biomedical sciences, thanks to the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust.