Emily Hurst, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences’ first student care manager, helps University of Iowa students navigate mental health concerns, crisis support, and campus resources through the Hawkeyes Helping Hawkeyes Fund. Since joining CLAS in 2024, Hurst has supported students, faculty, and staff through challenging situations while expanding wellness and peer-support initiatives across the college.

Mary Louise Kelley Staff Excellence Awards and CLAS Leadership Awards were recently granted to CLAS staff members across several units.

University of Iowa alumni Yiyun Li and Daniel Kraus earned 2026 Pulitzer Prizes, with two more Iowa graduates named finalists. Their achievements add to a long tradition of literary excellence rooted in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

As a double major in informatics and piano performance, graduating student Alison Baldwin found space to explore coding, data analysis, and music at the same time. She describes informatics as a versatile field that can be tailored to individual interests, from web design and psychology to economics and the arts.

CLAS faculty and staff across the college are being honored with university-wide recognition and awards for their impactful work.  These awards reflect the breadth of teaching, research, mentorship, service, and innovation taking place across the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

As one of the largest American Sign Language programs in the state, faculty members in the program focus on both language and culture instruction in the classroom.

Once she realized how flexible the Spanish major was, CLAS Student Isabella Weber took the leap to become a triple major.

CLAS's cinema program blends hands on production with critical thinking to help students understand the art of and process of filmmaking.

Raul Curto, professor of mathematics in the University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, has been named a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, one of the discipline’s highest honors. The recognition celebrates his groundbreaking work in multivariable operator theory, extensive scholarly contributions, and longstanding commitment to mentoring students and early-career mathematicians.

More than 40 years after leaving while just credits short of a degree, Tim Dickson fulfills a promise to his mother by returning to the University of Iowa — thanks to an online program that finally made finishing possible from afar.