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CLAS staff honored during 2023 recognition celebration and awards ceremony

Tuesday, June 20, 2023
CLAS staff members were recognized with Staff Leadership, Professional Development, Staff Excellence Awards, and DEI awards.
Downtown Iowa City

The Iowa Summer Writing Festival returns to Iowa City in July

Thursday, June 15, 2023
The popular writing festival has continued online but is offering in-person workshops for the first time since 2019.

Visiting CLAS assistant professor named 2023 NCECA Emerging Artist

Monday, June 12, 2023
School of Art and Art History faculty member Heidi McKay Casto has been selected as a National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts Emerging Artist for 2023.

CLAS assistant professor awarded AAUW postdoctoral fellowship

Monday, June 12, 2023
Brady G’Sell, assistant professor of gender, women’s and sexuality studies received the American Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship by the American Association of University Women.

CLAS pilots new staff orientation program

Monday, June 12, 2023
The half-day event offered an opportunity for employees to meet across units and learn more about the college.
Schaeffer Hall with flowers in the foreground in summer

Summer reading: check out new books by these Iowa authors

Monday, June 12, 2023
Add these new releases by Iowa Writers’ Workshop alumni Jamel Brinkley, Curtis Sittenfeld, and Ada Zhang to your reading list.
Tom Folland

Folland awarded NSF grant to study photonics in crystals

Monday, June 12, 2023
The grant for the project “CAREER: Photonics in the Lowest Symmetry Crystals” is being administered through the NSF Division of Materials Research.

CLAS staff member and chemistry glassblower receives prestigious award

Monday, June 5, 2023
Benjamin Revis, scientific glassblower in the Department of Chemistry, has been awarded the 2023 Helmut E. Drechsel Award.

UI joins statewide initiative to make Iowa a national leader in biomanufacturing

Researchers from CLAS will play a key role in boosting Iowa’s position as a leader in bioscience and advanced manufacturing through a new project sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Inaugural season of Book Matters fêtes 49 campus authors

Monday, June 5, 2023
The authors, many in CLAS, represent a wide range of disciplines.