Chem Prof Ned Bowden and undergrad student Gabe Armas attend Cedar Valley Family STEM Festival

Tuesday, November 29, 2016

University of Iowa Professor Ned Bowden and undergraduate student Gabriel Armas represented the Department of Chemistry at the Cedar Valley Family STEM Festival on Nov. 10 in Waterloo.

The goals of the third annual Cedar Valley Family Festival were to promote, inspire and engage youth in STEM activities and to introduce children and parents to STEM careers. Bowden and Armas ran a booth to showcase chemistry to students from pre-K to high schoolers and their parents. The festival was a success, with 2779 in attendance. The booth was busy from opening at 4 p.m. until closing at 7:30 p.m.

Bowden is an associate professor of organic chemistry, and Armas is an undergraduate student in the Department of Chemistry, part of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences.

Gabe Armas at the STEM Festival
Gabe Armas works with students at the Cedar
Valley Family STEM Festival.

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Ned Bowden at the STEM Festival
Ned Bowden demonstrates chemistry at the
festival.

 

The University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences offers about 70 majors across the humanities; fine, performing and literary arts; natural and mathematical sciences; social and behavioral sciences; and communication disciplines. About 15,000 undergraduate and nearly 2,000 graduate students study each year in the college’s 37 departments, led by faculty at the forefront of teaching and research in their disciplines. The college teaches all Iowa undergraduates through the college's general education program, CLAS CORE. About 80 percent of all Iowa undergraduates begin their academic journey in CLAS. The college confers about 60 percent of the university's bachelor's degrees each academic year.