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Brian Behnken publishes book on law enforcement and civil rights in the Southwest
Brian D. Behnken, professor in the Department of History, recently published a book, Brown and Blue: Mexican Americans, Law Enforcement, and Civil Rights in the Southwest, 1935–2025 with the University of North Carolina Press.

December 3, 2025
Manisha Sharma to publish poem in The Bellingham Review
Manisha Sharma, assistant teaching professor in the Department of English, has poetry forthcoming in The Bellingham Review. Her fiction is a finalist for the Cream City Review 2025 Summer Fiction Contest. The poem, “Epilepsy” will be published in their 92nd Spring/Summer issue in June 2026.

November 19, 2025
Tonglu Li publishes Chinese translation of Jesus and Lao Tzu: The Parallel Sayings with Commentaries
Tonglu Li, associate professor in the Department of World Languages and Cultures, along with two collaborators, recently published the Chinese translation of Martin Aronson’s “Jesus and Lao Tzu: The Parallel Sayings with Commentaries” with The Commercial Press (Hong Kong). The book offers a comparative study of the New Testament and…

November 19, 2025
Pablo Raúl Stinga delivers invited plenary lecture at American Mathematical Society conference
On Saturday October 18, 2025, Professor Pablo Raúl Stinga delivered the invited plenary lecture entitled “Regularity of solutions to nonlinear elliptic PDE problems involving surfaces” at the 2025 American Mathematical Society (AMS) Fall Central Sectional Meeting held on October 18-19 at St. Louis University, in St. Louis, Missouri. The AMS…

October 22, 2025
Tessa Brow participates in Des Moines Business Record Jobs Outlook panel
Tessa Brow, Director of LAS Career Services, recently participated in the Des Moines Business Record 2026 Jobs Outlook panel. A recording of the panel can be viewed below or on YouTube.

October 22, 2025
Mariana Castro Azpíroz exhibits at Queens Council on the Arts in New York City
Mariana Castro Azpíroz, graduate student in the Creative Writing and Environment MFA program in the Department of English, recently exhibited at the Q.ueens Council on the Arts in new York City alongside events for the New York Climate Week. The gallery exhibition is titled “Imagining Climate Futures” and was organized…

October 8, 2025
Luana Lamberti publishes paper in Journal of Language Contact
Luana Lamberti, assistant professor in the Department of World Languages and Cultures, recently published a paper in Journal of Language Contact, titled “Location Marking in Helvécian Portuguese.” The paper explores the intricate locative system of Helvécian Portuguese, a lesser-known Afro-Brazilian variety spoken by descendants of formerly enslaved Africans in…

October 8, 2025
Cristina Pardo Ballester publishes chapter in Researching Generative AI in Applied Linguistics
Cristina Pardo Ballester, associate professor in the Department of World Languages and Cultures, recently published a chapter, Unlocking the Potential of Generative AI: Enhancing Spanish Language Learning through Humor Translation Strategies, in the book Researching Generative AI in Applied Linguistics published by Iowa State University Digital Press. The chapter…

September 22, 2025