Articles from January 2024

CLAS chemistry professor and graduate student selected for ACS Editor’s Choice Award

Monday, January 29, 2024
A paper published earlier this year by chemistry professor Claudio Margulis and his colleagues was recently selected as an Editor’s Choice Award winner by the American Chemical Society (ACS).

Stresses strengthen disease-causing yeast

Monday, January 29, 2024
Iowa researchers say fungus capable of life-threatening infection grows more resistant after being exposed to mild stress

CLAS earth and environmental sciences professor emeritus shares details of Atlantic Ocean research expedition

Monday, January 29, 2024
Mark Reagan, professor emeritus in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, spent last summer on an expedition to drill the seafloor near the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

CLAS computer science and College of Law faculty members receive NSF grant to continue collaboration

Friday, January 26, 2024
Rishab Nithyanand, associate professor of computer science, and law professor Mihailis Diamantis recently received a nearly $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to bring legal education to computer science courses.

Ingo Titze awarded ASA Gold Medal

Monday, January 22, 2024
Professor Emeritus honored for research of the human voice
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6 CLAS departments redesign introductory STEM courses to improve student learning

Monday, January 22, 2024
Students, especially first-generation and underrepresented minority students, are benefiting from a highly collaborative project that is improving student experiences in STEM courses.
Stephen A Smith meets with students from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication

CLAS journalism students help broadcast ESPN’s “First Take,” network with sports personalities

Tuesday, January 16, 2024
Students in the UI School of Journalism and Mass Communication helped produce ESPN’s “First Take” when the show came to campus and also met prominent sports media figures Stephen A. Smith, Mark Shapiro, and Kimmi Chex.