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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

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Psychologist will discuss how to identify mental illness Oct. 16 at Iowa State

Psychologist Robert Krueger will discuss the differences between normal and abnormal human behavior and how the two overlap during a lecture at Iowa State University on Oct. 16. Krueger’s talk, "What is (Ab)Normal? How to Identify Mental Illness," will be at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 16, in the Memorial Union Great Hall. His presentation is … Continue reading Psychologist will discuss how to identify mental illness Oct. 16 at Iowa State

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Doug Spong, ISU alum and LAS Dean Advisory Board member, recipient of PRSA 2013 Gold Anvil Award

Carmichael Lynch Spong President Doug Spong has been named the recipient of the Public Relations Society of America’s 2013 Gold Anvil Award for lifetime achievement in public relations. The Gold Anvil is the Society’s highest individual award and is given annually to a PR professional whose work has significantly advanced the practice and standards for those in public relations.

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Keynotes Jockers, De Brabanter to highlight LAS’ ‘Exploring Data-Rich Environments’ workshop Oct. 11

The two keynote speakers at the Oct. 11 College of Liberal Arts and Sciences’ Signature Research Themes workshop, "Exploring Data-Rich Environments," bring exciting perspectives and expertise to the conference. • Matt Jockers, from the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, speaks at the 1 p.m. program. His talk is titled “Data Driven Criticism: … Continue reading Keynotes Jockers, De Brabanter to highlight LAS’ ‘Exploring Data-Rich Environments’ workshop Oct. 11