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Report your significant research news Physics & Astronomy Associate Professor Randy McEntaffer, along with a team of graduate and undergraduate students, are preparing rockets for launch to search for the unseen universe.
History Professor H. Glenn Penny has received the 2015 Distinguished Achievement in Arts and Humanities Research Award from the Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development.
History Professor Colin Gordon has received the 2015 Distinguished Achievement in Publicly Engaged Research Award from the Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development. Arts NewsEssayist Elena Passarello, a 2008 alumna of the Department of English’s Nonfiction Writing Program, is a winner of the 2015 Whiting Writers’ Award. Theatre Arts announced its 2015-16 MainStage lineup, kicking off with American Idiot. School of Music faculty and alumni presented work and won multiple awards
at the annual conference of the Society for American Music. Engagement and Outreach NewsReport your engagement/outreach activities CLAS faculty Joni Kinsey, Karen Mason, Barbara Mooney, and Marian Wilson Kimber will speak at the Iowa Humanities Festival, April 10-11, in Des Moines. CLAS students and soccer sophomores Amanda Lulek and Corey Burns spent a week of winter break in Nicaragua serving as camp counselors with Soccer Without Borders. Graduate students from the Print Area of the School of Art & Art History will travel with the UI Mobile Museum teaching Iowans about printmaking and its history. Awards, Achievements, and Media MentionsMarilynne Robinson's Lila
won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Steve Duck, Rhetoric department chair and professor and Communication Studies researcher, was selected for inclusion in the Central States Communication Association’s Hall of Fame. Eight CLAS staff members received Mary Louise Kelly Staff Excellence Awards for exceptional service to their department or to the College. Political Science alumni Andrea N.J. Woodard and Brianne Sanchez both received Central Iowa Young Professional of the Year awards in Des Moines. Rhetoric Lecturer Tom Keegan received the
Honors Award for Campus Support. Around CampusTo provide TIER efficiency initiative updates, the UI has launched a TIER update website. Updates from the most recent Board of Regents meeting on March 11, in Iowa City.
Faculty, staff, students encouraged to submit comments and suggestions to the
Presidential Search Committee. Upcoming CLAS EventsLectures/ConferencesThe Nature of Light: Physics and Astronomy Public Demonstration March 13 Shannon Jackson, "The Way We Perform Now"
March 24 Writing Statements of Purpose March 24 Game-Based Learning, The Multiplayer Classroom and You
March 25 Digital Humanities & Papyri.info
March 25 The Art of Propaganda: French and American Posters of the First World War
March 25 Lecture by Barbara Takenaga, visiting artist in Painting & Drawing March 30 Arts
(Visit Arts Iowa for complete listings)Luck of the Irish (Mainstage production, Theatre Arts)
Through March 14 Daniel Shapiro and Uriel Tsachor, Solo and 4-Hand Piano March 23 Symphony Orchestra
March 25 Brian Lee, piano March 26 A Little Lunch Music Concert Series
March 27 David Werden, euphonium March 27 Frank Almond, violin
March 27 Nice People (Reading, Theatre Arts) March 27 The Stoddard Stud House (Workshop, Theatre Arts)
March 28 ExhibitionsFrom the Grand Tour to American Pop: Learning with the Alden Lowell Doud Collection
Through May 17 Honoré Daumier: Selections from the University of Iowa Museum of Art Through March 28
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