News and events from CLAS, for CLAS.
 

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences News and Events Digest

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

News from the CLAS website
January 30, 2015 - February 12, 2015

 
 
 

Research News

The Mellon Foundation will fund a digital humanities partnership between the UI and Grinnell College.

Psychology Professor Daryl Cameron has received a National Science Foundation grant for his research on compassionate emotion.

The Leakey Foundation profiles Anthropology PhD candidate Shelby Putt and her brain research.

Communication Studies Professor Andy High and grad student Crystal Wotipka research online dating, finding users prefer profiles that seem humble and real.

Psychology Professors Bob McMurray and Ed Wasserman discover similarity between how pigeons learn the equivalent of words and the way children do.

Arts News

Two Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies graduate students’ art pieces have advanced to the semifinal round of the “Re-imagining Gender” exhibit at the University of Michigan.

CLAS and its departments mourn the passing of English Professor Emeritus David S. Chamberlain, longtime Writers’ Workshop Director Jack Leggett, and Art & Art History Professor Emeritus Hu Hung-shu.

Engagement and Outreach News

A Solon High School student recently spent three weeks in New Zealand researching freshwater snails with Biology Professor Maurine Neiman, as part of an outreach program.

Doctoral psychology student Nicole Hendrix is participating with a UI team in a global entrepreneurial competition, on the topic of “early childhood education in the urban slum.”

A Social Work alumnus is now an adviser at NIACC, and helps make international students feel at home.

Awards, Achievements, and Media Mentions

Biology Professors Andrew Forbes and Maurine Neiman discuss Darwin Day on Iowa Public Radio’s “Talk of Iowa”.

Biology Professor John Manak gives insights into "designer babies."

English and Spanish & Portuguese Professor Claire Fox is a peer reviewer for the Fulbright Specialist Program.

The Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science has been re-designated a Center of Actuarial Excellence.

Around Campus

The CLAS Strategic Planning Committee seeks input from faculty and staff

The Division of World Languages, Literatures & Cultures has recently expanded Korean language and culture learning opportunities, potentially with a new Korean minor.

Journalism student and CLAS editorial assistant Dora Grote was featured in a profile by the UI Office of Admissions.

The Department of English program English@Work, which helps prepare students for careers in English, is growing in popularity.

The Daily Iowan reports on physical education classes within CLAS.

Upcoming CLAS Events: Friday, February 13-Friday, March 6

MFA Painting Graduates and Faculty Exhibit Through March 1

Good Kids (Mainstage production, Theatre Arts) Through Feb. 15

Ten Minute Play Festival Feb. 12-15

Dept. of Dance Faculty/Graduate Concert Feb. 12-14

Arts Share Percussion Concert Feb. 15

Center for New Music Ensemble Feb. 15

Emeritus Faculty Lecture Series: Elizabeth Aubrey (School of Music) Feb. 17

Symphony Orchestra  Feb. 18

Orchestra Invitational Feb. 20

Ending the Silence: A Conversation on Race and Privilege Feb. 17

Family Dinner (Workshop, Theatre Arts) Feb. 20-21

Iowa Honor Band Festival Feb. 21

Bruce Gronbeck Rhetoric Society Inaugural Lecture Feb. 24

Live from Prairie Lights: T. Geronimo Johnson Feb. 25

"A Deeper Black: Race in America", a lecture by Ta-Nehisi Coates Feb. 25

Lecture by Visiting Artist Amy Pleasant Feb. 26

Dancers in Company Home Concert Feb. 26-28

Sea of Trees (Workshop, Theatre Arts) Feb. 27-28

Injustice on Our Plates: How Conditions of Food Workers Affects Us All Feb. 28

Piano Sundays: Alan Huckleberry and Studio March 1

Chamber Orchestra March 1

Thoreau Piano Trio March 2

Luck of the Irish (Mainstage production, Theatre Arts)  March 5-14