Articles from April 2022

Portrait of Marissa Schooley

International Studies Student Marissa Schooley Awarded U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship to Study Mandarin

University of Iowa international studies and Chinese major Marissa Schooley has been awarded a 2022 U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) for an intensive study of Mandarin.

Allison Stickley earns Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award

The University of Iowa Council on Teaching named 29 teaching assistants as recipients of the 2021 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. These awards have been given annually since 1988 to a select group of graduate teaching assistants who have effectively promoted learning and creativity both inside and outside the classroom while demonstrating enthusiasm and dedication to student success. “Teaching assistants are vital to our mission of student success,” says Executive Vice President and Provost Kevin Kregel. “I am grateful for their dedication to our students and I thank them for all that they do to exemplify excellence in our classrooms.”
Portrait of Lauren Philips

International Studies Student Lauren Philips Awarded U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship to Study Persian

University of Iowa international studies and French student Lauren Philips has been awarded a 2022 U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) for an intensive study of Persian.

The FreqTag toolbox: A principled approach to analyzing electrophysiological time series in frequency tagging paradigms

Steady-state visual evoked potential (ssVEP) frequency tagging is an increasingly used method in electrophysiological studies of visual attention and perception. Frequency tagging is suitable for studies examining a wide range of populations, including infants and children. Frequency tagging involves the presentation of different elements of a visual array at different temporal rates, thus using stimulus timing to “tag” the brain response to a given element by means of a unique time signature. Leveraging the strength of the ssVEP frequency tagging method to isolate brain responses to concurrently presented and spatially overlapping visual objects requires specific signal processing methods.