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Digest #40
A twice-monthly bulletin for the faculty and staff of the
University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
All the News from CLAS
October 5, 2016--October 19, 2016
Research News
Report your significant research news
UI helping record Jupiter's spooky sounds
Chem Prof Sara Mason wins NSF award to access supercomputer network
Iowa’s cancer-fighting antibody bank
Arts News
UI, CLAS, School of Music, and community to celebrate the Voxman Music Building opening October 21
UI Symphony Orchestra, guest vocalist Katherine Goeldner, Professor of Organ Greg Hand to consecrate the Voxman Concert Hall October 26
School of Music Director Dave Gier reflects on progress since the flood
Voxman: The man behind the building name
VIDEO: The Klais organ in the Voxman Concert Hall
Opera Professor Rachel Joselson's "Songs of the Holocaust" receives stellar review in Fanfare Magazine
Theatre Arts/Dance Prof Daniel Fine wins ariZoni Theatre Award of Excellence
UI dedicates new technologically advanced and artistically inspiring Visual Arts Building
New Visual Arts Building featured in "Wallpaper"
Engagement and Outreach News
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Poli Sci to hold a public forum on the Presidential election Tuesday, October 25
Communication Sciences & Disorders and Film Scene to host "The Way We Talk" and panel with filmmaker on International Stuttering Awareness Day October 22
Comm Studies Prof Kristine Muñoz explains the science of interruption in the presidential debates in Bloomberg news
Comp Sci Prof Douglas Jones offers 5 ways to improve voting security
"WorldCanvass: Fracking and the Iowa Divide" a success
Awards, Achievements, and Media Mentions
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Physics & Astronomy Prof Jasper Halekas wins highly prestigious NASA medal
Comm Sciences & Disorders Prof Jean Gordon publishes linguistic analysis of the presidential debates in Huffington Post
Mathematics conference honors Professor Phil Kutzko
Psych Prof Jan Wessel wins early career award from Society for Psychophysiological Research
HHP Lecturer Mike Winker wins IHSSA Fine Arts Administrator of the Year Award
Social Work Profs Saunders and Haskins win JSWE Best Qualitative Article award
Rachel Williams, Dan Matheson win top UI teaching award
Around Campus
Durham, Getz named as finalists for CLAS Associate Dean of Graduate Education and Outreach; open forums scheduled October 24
English/African Amer Studies Profs Lena and Michael Hill co-edit "Invisible Hawkeyes"
Spanish & Portuguese Prof Ana Merino publishes new books, "La Redención" and "Poesía soy yo"
Classics Prof Craig Gibson publishes "The Rhetorical Exercises of Nikephoros Basilakes"
English Prof Jeff Porter publishes new book, "Lost Sound: The Forgotten Art of Radio Storytelling"
African American students and alumni build community at the UI
UI Microfabrication Facility to hold open house October 28
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Upcoming CLAS Events
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Lectures/Conferences/Informational Meetings
Workshop: Scholarly Publishing and Open Access October 19
Debate Watch Party October 19
Hawkeye Lunch & Learn: German Iowans and the Politics of Brewing October 20
Exploring Careers in the Biosciences Networking Night October 20
Next Gen PhD: A Conversation with Nick Sousanis October 21
CLAS Associate Dean open forums October 24
Archival Workshop for Graduate Students and Researcher, Trudy Huskamp Peterson October 24
Public Talk by Former Acting Archivist of the United States October 25
PUBLIC FORUM - 2016 Presidential Election October 25
Gil Reynders - "Developing Rubrics to Assess Students' Process Skills" October 26
Wine+Science Night! October 26
"Jumping from Text to Screen: A Scholar's Attempts to Keep It Real on PBS's 'Mercy Street'" October 28
Arts
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2016 Truman Capote Award Ceremony: Kevin Birmingham October 19
Choral Collage Concert October 19
Film Club: Seriously Funny Movies October 20, 27
Guest Artist Recital: Jeremy Crawford, tuba October 20
Lark Quartet with Yousif Sheronick, percussion October 20
Rita Dove Reading October 20
Voxman Music Building Ribbon Cutting and Open House October 21
FilmScene: 'The Way We Talk' October 22
Center for New Music Composer's Workshop October 23
UI Symphony Orchestra October 26
The Girl Who Came Out The Wrong Way (Theatre Arts Gallery Series) October 27-28
Jean Valentine Reading October 28
Fifth Biennial Grant Wood Symposium October 28-29
JCL with Alumni Cassius Goens, Nate Bogert, Marcelo Kuyumjian October 28
Exhibitions
Hawkeyes in Space exhibition September 8 through May 2017
German Iowa and the Global Midwest Through January 8
Sciences
Prof. Stephen Martin - "Exploring the Interface between Heterocyclic Chemistry and Neuroscience" October 27
Rebecca Meredith - "FTIR Remote Sensing of Ammonia and Sulfur Dioxide" October 27
University of Iowa Microfabrication Facility (UIMF) Open House October 28