AMES, Iowa – The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State University is honoring 26 faculty and staff with awards for their accomplishments. The recipients will be recognized at the Fall Liberal Arts & Sciences Faculty/Staff Convocation on Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2012, at 4 p.m. in the Sun Room, Memorial Union. The event … Continue reading Teaching, service and research honored with 2012 LAS awards
AMES, Iowa – Assistant Professor Levi Stanley is the new holder of the Carlyle G. Caldwell Endowed Chair in Chemistry at Iowa State University. The two-year chair will provide him with supplemental annual funds for his teaching and research efforts in the Department of Chemistry, an academic unit in the College of Liberal Arts and … Continue reading Levi Stanley named the next Caldwell Chair in Chemistry
Barbara Mack, master teacher, professor, grammarian, mentor and friend to decades of Iowa State University journalism students, has died. Mack passed away in her sleep at home in Des Moines early this morning. She was 59.
AMES, Iowa – Edward Yu took note of the facts – nearly 2 million deaths each year, 9 million infected each year, developments of multidrug-resistant, extensively drug-resistant and now totally drug-resistant strains – and decided to shift his research focus to tuberculosis. Yu, an Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory researcher, has described in the journal … Continue reading Researchers study the structure of drug resistance in tuberculosis
The National Institute of Statistical Sciences presented the 2012 Jerome Sacks Award for Cross-Disciplinary Research to William Meeker, ISU distinguished professor of statistics.
Professor Clifford Bergman is the new holder of the Janson Professorship in Mathematics at Iowa State University. The professorship, in addition to recognizing Bergman’s professional achievements, will provide him with supplemental annual funds to advance the teaching and research efforts of the Department of Mathematics, an academic unit in the College of Liberal Arts and … Continue reading Bergman is the next Janson Professor of Mathematics at Iowa State
Jake Sullivan, assistant professor of Aerospace Studies, has been named Operations Flight Commander of the Year for the Northwest Region of the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps.
LAS graduate Jake Varner earns gold at London Olympics Former Iowa State Cyclone wrestler and College of Liberal Arts and Sciences alumnus Jake Varner is an Olympic gold medalist. In London, he won the 2012 gold medal in men’s freestyle wrestling at 96 kg./211.5 pounds on Aug. 12 with a 1-0, 1-0 win over Ukraine’s … Continue reading Golden Moment
Mayly Sanchez, a physics assistant professor, has won a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
John R. Clem, Distinguished Professor of physics emeritus and senior physicist emeritus at the Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, will receive the 2012 IEEE Council On Superconductivity Award for Significant and Sustained Contributions to Applied Superconductivity.