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New pre-law capstone course available for students
Students may now enroll for Fall 2014.
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Stanley earns NSF Career Award for success in lab, classroom
“I believe it’s important for students to have a real world lab experience as undergraduates, so I allow them into the lab to create their own molecules and make their own discoveries. This fits with the theme that ISU thinks is important – getting them real experience as soon as possible.”
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Impact stories: Marquart writes about her month inside the Bakken oil boom
Debra Marquart, Professor of English, returned to her native North Dakota in November, one of two writers under a grant by the North Dakota Humanities Council to gather the stories and experiences of people whose lives have been impacted from the Bakken oil boom.
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Marquart’s North Dakota writing workshops gush with oil boom stories
If you read about the oil boom in western North Dakota, the word "challenge" keeps coming to mind. The Bakken oil fields have turned areas of Deb Marquart’s native state into a modern-day gold rush. The vast oil field is alive with wells and workers, who are stretching everything from available housing to public services. … Continue reading Marquart’s North Dakota writing workshops gush with oil boom stories
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Register now for LAS’ Economic, Environmental and Societal Sustainability workshop on April 7
“Economic, Environmental and Societal Sustainability” will examine new approaches for interdisciplinary collaboration between the sciences, the humanities and business in fields related to sustainability. The free workshop is Monday, April 7, beginning at 1 p.m. in the Iowa State Alumni Center, located south of C.Y. Stephens Auditorium.
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A new book and a leadership academy appointment for Greenlee faculty
Good news for a pair of Greenlee School faculty members: • Tracy Lucht is co-author of a new book: "Mad Men and Working Women: Feminist Perspectives on Historical Power, Resistance, and Otherness" (Peter Lang). Lucht and three other scholars examined the TV series "Mad Men," which takes place in the "pre- or non-feminist" ’60s. According … Continue reading A new book and a leadership academy appointment for Greenlee faculty
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History major, basketball star Melvin Ejim named 1st-team academic all-American
Iowa State senior basketball forward Melvin Ejim earned Capital One First-Team Academic All-America honors, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America. Ejim, a Toronto, Ontario, native, joins his head coach Fred Hoiberg as the only Iowa State men’s basketball players to earn first-team academic All-America accolades. Hoiberg was a first-teamer in 1995 … Continue reading History major, basketball star Melvin Ejim named 1st-team academic all-American
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Environmental science students to check water quality on campus this semester
Students will monitor the health of several streams that pass through campus this semester. The effort is being implemented as a two-semester sequence of courses for the Science of the Environment and Sustainable Systems Learning Community, a group of first-year and transfer students studying environmental science.
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Amara Piano Quartet, Music department to host award-winning composer
George Tsontakis, two-time Grammy nominee and Distinguished Composer-in-Residence at Bard Conservatory, will present a public lecture and perform with the Amara Piano Quartet during a special event this weekend.
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English’s Cavazos earns Poetry Society of America Fellowship
Poet Thomas Sayers Ellis selected Cavazos’ manuscript, “Barbarian at the Gate,” as part of the Poetry Society of America’s New American Poets Chapbook Series.