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Dead clams talking blog, part 3 – Still seeking the deep water clam off Norway

The third and final blog appearing in the online version of the journal Discover, Alan Wanamaker of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and other researchers including Iowa State students still seek their elusive catch off the northern coast of Norway: the Arctica islandica clam, the oldest living multicellular animal in the world, from deep water. Wanamaker, … Continue reading Dead clams talking blog, part 3 – Still seeking the deep water clam off Norway

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Influential science – Trio of LAS physicists on prestigious list of highly cited scientists

Paul Canfield, Costas Soukoulis and Sergey Bud’ko – physicists with the Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory – were included on the list of 3,200 researchers who published the greatest number of highly cited papers in one of 21 academic fields from 2002 to 2012. Highly cited papers, according to the publication, rank in the top 1 percent by citations for their field and year of publication.

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Bingo! Stop by our Family Weekend event

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is sponsoring bingo this Friday as part of the Family Weekend activities. There is no entry fee to attend: Sept. 5, 7:30 – 10:30 p.m. in the South Ballroom, Memorial Union. Learn more about the Family Weekend activities here.