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Digest #26

A twice-monthly bulletin for the faculty and staff of the
University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

News from the CLAS website
February 16, 2016--February 29, 2016

 
 

Research News

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Three high-profile visiting lecturers are on campus this week:

Philip Lutgendorf publishes translation of Tulsidas' Rāmcaritmānas

Biology study shows how cancerous tumors form, receives international attention

I'll cry if I want to: Psych study finds empathy related to anticipated emotional effort

Philosophy prof and DEO David Cunning publishes new book on the ideas of Margaret Cavendish

Poli Sci Prof Julie Pacheco receives grant to study Obamacare

Deborah Whaley publishes pedagogy piece on teaching Rhetoric and the passing of David Bowie

Psych PhD student Marian Rizk awarded APAGS research grant

Listen to gravitational waves from merger of black holes

Arts News

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Building bikes and a world-class reputation in the School of Art & Art History

A bow and a bow: Double Bass Professor Volkan Orhon mentors student

Ethan Canin discusses new novel on NPR

Robyn Schiff's next poetry collection named one of "most anticipated" of 2016, featured on NPR

 

Engagement and Outreach News

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Chemistry cooks up community outreach opportunities

Local AP Biology class visits Department of Biology

History Prof Michael Moore lectures on popes for monks at New Melleray Abbey

The UI's science guides: Iowa Biosciences Academy encourages underrepresented students to attend graduate school

Awards, Achievements, and Media Mentions

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Music Ed Prof Jeremy Manternach conducts at two state music ed conferences

Professor Philip Lutgendorf interviewed in Times of India's "Speaking Tree"

NY Times profiles program started by Theatre Arts Chair Alan MacVey

Deborah Whaley's book featured nationally in various outlets

English prof John D'Agata interviewed by Guernica magazine: "What We Owe History"

UI grad David Guttenfelder (BA 93, Journalism/Anthro) featured during Oscars broadcast

Around Campus

CLAS alumni and friends crush $140 million fundraising campaign goal

Magid Center for Undergraduate Writing to offer new publishing track

Global Health Studies students complete field research in India

Been to a Kapustnik lately? (VIDEO)

CLAS Faculty Governance elections: Vote Now!

Upcoming CLAS Events

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Lectures/Conferences/Informational Meetings

Exploring Careers in Cinema March 1

WorldCanvass: "Taking It to the Streets: Engagement and the Academy" March 1

Finding and Funding Global Health Experiences March 2

Exploring Careers in Biology March 3

E.P. Adler Lecture Featuring Candida Moss March 3

Alford Young, U Michigan: "Race, Place and Perceptions of Opportunity: How Black Men Move from Poverty to Possibility" March 4

Graduate School and Beyond/Meet and Greet (with Alford Young) March 4

Floating Friday lecture "Asia-Latin America as Method: The Global South Project and the Dis-articulation of the West" March 4

Lecture by Janet Ruttenberg, visiting artist in Dimensional Practice March 9

Arts
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Live from Prairie Lights: Ethan Canin in conversation with Curtis Sittenfeld February 29

'Before NIght Falls': Owl of Minerva Film Series: 'Resisting Authority: Systems of Power, Oppression and Thought Control' March 2

Dean Young Reading March 2

Iphigenia Crash Land Falls on the Neon Shell That was Once her Heart (a rave fable) (Theatre Arts Mainstage Production) March 3-12

Latin Jazz Ensemble Performance March 4

Kantorei and University Choir March 4

Michael Cunningham Reading March 4

Preview of Bill Plympton's animated film "Revengeance" March 5

Camerata March 5

Piano Sundays: Alan Huckleberry and Studio March 6

Chamber Orchestra March 6

University Band/Concert Band March 7

Neal Corwell, Guest Euphonium March 9

Trombone Studio Recital March 10

Exhibitions

THEM: Images of Separation January 28-May 15

Sciences

Shani Egodawattte - "Environmental and Biomedical Applications of Magnetic Mesoporous Silica Nancomposites" February 29

Dr. Joseph W. Bennett - "The Search for Functional Semiconductors: New classes of Piezoelectric, Ferroelectrics, and Antiferroelectrics" March 2

Ariel Bohman - "Skin Interface and Spectrometer Development for Noninvasive Glucose Measurements in People Over Combination Near-Infrared Wavelength" March 3

Jason Mixdorf "Allylic Fluorination"  March 3

Aruni Gankanda - "Heterogeneous and Multiphase Atmospheric Chemistry of Nitrogen and Sulfur Oxides with Mineral Dust and other Metal-Containing Aerosols" March 7

Professor Vicente Moliner - "Computational chemistry as a tool to study enzyme catalysis"  March 10

Prof. Krishnan Rajeshwar - "The Materials Chemistry Wonderland: A 30 Year Odyssey"" March 11

Jiayue Li - "Establishing the Role of Global Networks in Human Dihydrofolate Reductase" March 21