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TED speaker and Penn State Senior Lecturer Melissa Marshall will deliver a workshop on how to present research in an engaging, accessible way.
The Obermann Center for Advanced Studies has announced new opportunities for faculty research funding.
Earth & Environmental Sciences Associate Professor Ingrid Ukstins Peate uses Chilean sediment to learn about climate change history. CLAS students invited to register for, present work in the
Spring Undergraduate Research Festival. CLAS announces undergraduate recipients of research grants from the
Dewey Stuit Fund
in the Liberal Arts and Sciences. Report your significant research news. Arts NewsStudents in an Art & Art History course taught by Professor Joni Kinsey will help develop a UI Museum of Art exhibition showing Alden Lowell Doud’s personal art collection. The Department of Dance faculty and graduate students performed dance pieces using the new Human Instrument Digital Interface (HIDI) system, which allows dancers to communicate with software through a wireless glove. "Smoke-Screen":
Dance performance will debut as finale of Obermann Center's energy symposium, Energy Cultures in the Age of the Anthropocene. Engagement and Outreach NewsCLAS faculty are invited to participate in the University of Iowa Engagement Tour, a “listening and learning tour”, to visit with Iowans. Spanish & Portuguese Professor Adriana Méndez Rodenas travelled to Mid-Sweden University this fall to lecture on eco-criticism as a Visiting Scholar. American Studies and African American Studies Associate Professor Deborah Elizabeth Whaley penned a guest column in the Iowa City Press Citizen on homelessness. Journalism Associate Professor Don McLeese will speak in Des Moines about “Music, Media, and Journalism”
and the future of these industries in a digital world. Chemistry faculty, students presented experiments at
Cedar Rapids STEM Festival. Obermann Center's interdisciplinary energy symposium, "Energy Cultures in the Age of the Anthropocene," will be next week. Report your engagement/outreach activities. Awards, Achievements, and Media
MentionsThe School of Journalism & Mass Communication inducted former Daily Iowan editor Philip R. Currie and Professor Emeritus Al Talbott to the SJMC Hall of Fame. Physics & Astronomy Assistant Professor Scott Baalrud has won a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation, for his research and museum project. History Associate Professor Mariola Espinosa has been awarded the May Brodbeck Humanities Fellowship to further her research on yellow fever in the Caribbean. History doctoral candidate Noaquia Callahan has won the Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women and Politics, for her work on Mary Church Terrell, an African American feminist. History Professor Emeritus Sheldon Stromquist is featured in IPTV's "Iowans Return to Freedom Summer". The
Frank N. Magid Center for Undergraduate Writing
was featured in Parent Times’ winter issue. Around CampusCLAS faculty, staff, alumni named to serve on the UI Presidential Search Committee.
Health & Human Physiology undergraduate student athlete Samantha Logic is a finalist for this year's Senior CLASS Award. The Muslim Student Association hosted the UI’s first Islam Awareness Week, which included events to foster a better understanding of Islam. The University of Iowa will now offer three-year major options for new undergraduates. The University of Iowa’s next Theme Semester
will be Spring 2016, focusing on social justice; faculty funding is available. CSD Professor Jerald Moon and Chemistry Lecturer Russell Larsen win
Innovations in Teaching with Technology Awards. Upcoming CLAS EventsLectures/ConferencesTom Oates, Assistant Professor of American Studies & Journalism & Mass Communication:
"Onward to Victory: NFL Coaches, Masculinity, and Enterprising Culture"
Feb. 27 Injustice on Our Plates: How Conditions of Food Workers Affect Us All
Feb. 28 "Recent Excavations at Sardis, City of Croesus," lecture by Nicholas Cahill, visiting speaker in Art History
March 2 Not the Elegiac Ideal: The Bodily Interior in Roman Elegy, Medicine, and Law
March 2 Humanities for the 21st Century, or "Why I Teach Plato to Plumbers"
March 3 Energy Cultures in the Age of the Anthropocene
March 5-7 Travel and Remembrance: Experiencing the Grand Tour and Bringing it Back Home
March 5 The Nature of Light: Physics and Astronomy Public Demonstration March 13 Arts
(Visit Arts Iowa for complete listings)Sea of Trees (Workshop, Theatre Arts)
Feb. 27-28 Dancers in Company Home Concert Feb. 27-28 Piano Sundays - Alan Huckleberry and Studio
March 1 Chamber Orchestra March 1 Thoreau Piano Trio
March 2 Documentary: "The Great Invisible"
March 3 UI String Quartet Residency Program Presents: Under the Hood with Pacifica Quartet March 4 Clarinet Studio Recital
March 5 Luck of the Irish (Mainstage production, Theatre Arts) March 5-8 Smoke-Screen, This and Other Warnings
March 7 Camerata and University Choir
March 8 Frederic Rzewski "The People Will Never Be Defeated," a multi-media, multi-pianist event
March 8 University Band and Concert Band March 9 Book Wings South Africa
March 10 ExhibitionsHonoré Daumier: Selections from the University of Iowa Museum of Art
Feb. 27-March 10 From the Grand Tour to American Pop: Learning with the Alden Lowell Doud Collection March 5-May 17
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