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Steve Kawaler helps research team see misaligned planets in distant system

Using data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope, an international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system featuring multiple planets orbiting at a severe tilt to their host star. Such tilted orbits had been found in planetary systems featuring a “hot Jupiter,” a giant planet in a close orbit to its host star. But, … Continue reading Steve Kawaler helps research team see misaligned planets in distant system

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Loomis Professorship in Plant Physiology to LAS’ Diane Bassham

The medallion ceremony honoring Diane Bassham, professor in the Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology, as the Walter E. and Helen Parke Loomis Professor of Plant Physiology at Iowa State University is Friday, October 25, at 4 p.m. in 1414 Molecular Biology Building. Senior Vice President and Provost Jonathan Wickert will present the medallion … Continue reading Loomis Professorship in Plant Physiology to LAS’ Diane Bassham

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Grant allows Marquart to return to her native North Dakota to capture the stories of the ‘oil boom’

AMES, IA – While growing up in rural North Dakota, Iowa State University’s Debra Marquart never imagined returning to her roots during the state’s current chaos. Marquart, professor of English in the M.F.A. program in Creative Writing and Environment, has been called upon by the North Dakota Humanities Council to lend her creative hands to … Continue reading Grant allows Marquart to return to her native North Dakota to capture the stories of the ‘oil boom’

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Students taking advantage of new LAS Career Services Carver location

Liberal Arts and Sciences students have found their way to the college’s new Career Services offices in Carver Hall. The LAS Career Services staff moved from Catt Hall to Carver in August, and the increased amount of undergraduate traffic has been a pleasant surprise to Taren Crow. "The visibility here has been great," said Crow, … Continue reading Students taking advantage of new LAS Career Services Carver location

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Matthew Jockers presents keynote address at LAS workshop

Matthew Jockers argues that literary scholars can no longer simply "close read" literature. The keynote speaker kicking off the Oct. 11 College of Liberal Arts and Sciences’ workshop "Exploring Data-Rich Environments" will demonstrate how big data is, he explained, "driving, even forcing, new ways of studying literature at the macro scale." Jockers, a researcher in … Continue reading Matthew Jockers presents keynote address at LAS workshop