RPC Students Present at National Council of Writing Program Administrators Conference

Samantha Cosgrove, Derek Hanson, Patti Poblete, Jillian Garuman, Bremen Vance, Loren Malone, Barb Blakely and Kathy Rose presented at the National Council of Writing Program… Read More

August 17, 2017

Prashant Rajan studies how sales people feel about using debit card-like smartcards to track fair price purchases in India’s Chhattisgarh province.

Foodfix Podcast This interview was based on two research articles that came out in issues 1 and 3 of the journal Information Technologies & International… Read More

October 27, 2016

Charles Kostelnick’s article chosen as recipient of STC’s Frank R. Smith Outstanding Article Award for 2016.

An article that appeared in the May 2016 issue of Technical Communication, by Charles Kostelnick, “The Re-Emergence of Emotional Appeals in Interactive Data Visualization,” has… Read More

October 18, 2016

Matthew Wynn Sivils Receives 2016 A&S Distinguished Alumni Award

Matthew Wynn Sivils received the 2016 A&S Distinguished Alumni Award from the English Department at Oklahoma State University. The Distinguished Alumni Award recognizes an A&S… Read More

September 30, 2016

Prashant Rajan and Shweta Chopra published in the Information Technologies and International Development journal

Prashant Rajan, adjunct assistant professor of English and Communications Studies, along with Shweta Chopra, assistant professor of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering have research published in… Read More

March 22, 2016

English majors present at the MUCH (Midwest Undergraduate Conference on the Humanities) Conference at Wartburg College

English majors Beth Trafton, Sarah Hohnstrater, Emina Kovacevic, Jesse Ledbetter presented at MUCH (Midwest Undergraduate Conference on the Humanities) conference, November 7, 2015.   Their… Read More

December 9, 2015

Adam Blake Wright selected as one of two Julia Child Foundation Scholarship winners at the Eating Words Conference

Last month, dual-degree graduate student Adam Blake Wright (MFA Creative Writing and MS Sustainable Agriculture) was selected as one of two Julia Child Foundation Scholarship… Read More

December 7, 2015

Oxford University Press hosts a blog post from Brianna Burke on The Hunger Games

Oxford University Press will host a blog post from Brianna Burke on The Hunger Games. It is titled “The Hunger Games are Playing on Loop—and… Read More

December 5, 2015

Hui-Hsien Feng receives Graduate College Research Excellence Award

Hui-Hsien Feng, Ph.D. Student in Applied Linguistics & Technology, received a Graduate College Research Excellence Award for Fall 2015 for her dissertation entitled “Designing, implementing,… Read More

December 4, 2015

Stacy Tye-Williams nominee for 2015 Academic Minute Listener’s Choice Award

Stacy Tye-Williams, an assistant professor of communications studies and English, is a nominee for the 2015 Academic Minute Listener’s Choice Award. Tye-Williams was featured in… Read More

December 2, 2015

MFA Alum, John Linstrom edits Centennial Edition of Liberty Hyde Bailey’s landmark agrarian manifesto, The Holy Earth: The Birth of a New Land Ethic

MFA Alum, John Linstrom edits Centennial Edition of Liberty Hyde Bailey’s landmark agrarian manifesto, The Holy Earth: The Birth of a New Land Ethic, published by Counterpoint… Read More

December 1, 2015

2014 MFA Alum Lindsay Tigue

MFA Alum, Lindsay Tigue receives the 2015 Iowa Poetry Prize for her poetry collection, System of Ghosts, forthcoming from University of Iowa Press in 2016. Lindsay… Read More

December 1, 2015

2014 MFA Alum Lindsay Tigue receives the 2015 Iowa Poetry Prize

MFA Alum, Lindsay Tigue receives the 2015 Iowa Poetry Prize for her poetry collection, System of Ghosts, forthcoming from University of Iowa Press in 2016. Read More

December 1, 2015

Sarah Chase Cosby and Brenda Tyrrell, MA graduate students in English, present at Midwest Popular Culture Association

In early October, Sarah Chase Crosby and Brenda Tyrrell presented papers at the Midwest Popular Culture Association annual conference in Cincinnati, Ohio. The papers were… Read More

November 23, 2015

Rachel Murdock and Matt Baker Present Study on Narratives of Job Loss

Rachel Murdock and Matt Baker, Ph.D. students in the Rhetoric and Professional Communication program, presented their study on Narratives of Job Loss at the… Read More

November 19, 2015

New edition of Paul Errington’s Of Wilderness and Wolves

Matthew Sivils announced that his new edition of Paul Errington’s Of Wilderness and Wolves has now been published by the University of Iowa Press. Read More

November 17, 2015

Langenberg awarded the 2015 Louisville Literary Arts and Blue Mesa Review prose contest

Christiana Louisa Langenberg’s work has been chosen for the Louisville Literary Arts & Blue Mesa Review prose contest this year. Langenberg will receive $500… Read More

November 17, 2015

Blakely published in College Teaching

Barb Blakely, associate professor and member of rhetoric and professional communication, was recently published in College Teaching. The article, Pedagogical Technology Experiences of Successful Late-Career… Read More

November 2, 2015

“Crossing the Academic Border” Q and A With Jennifer Musgrove, WLC Spanish Teaching Assistant

“Crossing the Academic Border” Q and A With Jennifer Musgrove, WLC Spanish Teaching Assistant November 2, 2015 Jennifer Musgrove just completed her first year in… Read More

November 2, 2015

Orion magazine names Iowa State MFA student as new reviews editor

Award-winning essayist and poet Taylor Brorby has been named Orion‘s new reviews editor. His work has appeared in High Country News, Canary, Written River, and many others. Taylor speaks… Read More

October 29, 2015