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.”

Learn more about Marie Culpepper being awarded an Outstanding TA Award

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.

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.

Learn more about Professor Kirsten Kumpf Baele talk about Anne Frank on Talk on Iowa

Wenqi Zeng is the recipient of the Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship for 2022. This fellowship program provides an opportunity for advanced Ph.D. student to benefit from protected and supported time to pursue their scholarly research activities. The fellowship is intended to recognize students with distinguished academic achievement during their early graduate training. These achievements should be evident from a combination of outstanding academic performance in coursework, as well as early scholarly research activities.

Wenqi Zeng is the recipient of the Graduate College Summer Fellowship for summer 2022. This fellowship program provides an opportunity for advanced Ph.D. student to benefit from protected and supported time to pursue their scholarly research activities.

Christine Shea presented "Who Lateralizes Matters" at the Georgetown University Roundtable (virtual), Georgetown University, March 10-13, 2022.

University of Iowa international studies and economics student Ryann Hubbart has been awarded a 2022 U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) to study in Amman, Jordan, this summer for an intensive Arabic language program.

Students enrolled in IS instructor Peter Gerlach's course "Community Engaged Learning with Refugees and Immigrants in Iowa" are partnering with the Catherine McCauley Center in Cedar Rapids to provide educational lectures, editorials, and other outreach to educate eastern Iowans on the experiences of local immigrant and refugee populations.