Coach Rhoads tells Liberal Arts and Sciences leadership class the story behind ‘I’m so proud’

When Iowa State football coach Paul Rhoads told his jubilant team after upsetting Nebraska in 2009 that he was "so proud to be your football coach," he was not just caught up in the moment. Rhoads recently told students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean’s Leadership Class that the phrase was part … Continue reading Coach Rhoads tells Liberal Arts and Sciences leadership class the story behind ‘I’m so proud’

Bergman receives medallion for Janson Professorship

An Iowan and a Poet

by Laura Wille Fueled by a passion for her native state, Iowa Poet Laureate and ISU Distinguished Professor Mary Swander strives to bring out the poetry in all of us. A fourth-generation Iowan, Mary Swander’s two-year reappointment by Gov. Terry Branstad as Iowa Poet Laureate is very fitting. Swander has written poems, books and a musical about Iowa, directed an Iowa-based reader’s theatre … Continue reading An Iowan and a Poet

8th annual Stupka Symposium brings BBMB students, faculty together on April 11

AMES, Iowa – The eighth annual Stupka Symposium at Iowa State University is Thursday, April 11. The event is organized and run by students in the Roy J. Carver Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology. The daylong symposium is dedicated to promote student-professor interactions and facilitate opportunities for students to learn how to thrive … Continue reading 8th annual Stupka Symposium brings BBMB students, faculty together on April 11

History’s John Warne Monroe wins William Koren Jr. Prize for article

John Warne Monroe, associate professor of history, has won the 2013 William Koren Jr. Prize by The Society for French Historical Studies for his recent article “Surface Tensions: Empire, Parisian Modernism, and ‘Authenticity’ in African Sculpture.”