Welcome to the 2020 LAS Fall Convocation program! Thank you for joining us for this special virtual event.
I removed my face covering to speak to you since I am in a space where maintaining a physical distance of 6 feet is possible.
I encourage you all to take part in physical distancing,
wear a face covering, wash or sanitize your hands often,
and stay home when you feel ill.
As we continue with the presentation, I invite you to submit congratulatory remarks
and engage with fellow faculty and staff, and any friends of the college who are tuning in,
in the live chat box located on the right side of the YouTube Premiere video.
Submitting remarks is a fun way to show support for our incredible LAS award recipients.
Today we have much to celebrate, but first I would like to share a few things about things about the college
where we are and where we’re going.
Welcome to the 2020 LAS Fall Convocation.
This is a time to look back on the past year and look forward to the new one.
And what a year it has been!
Last Fall, who would have imagined
how dramatically the world would change over the course of a few months.
Thank you first of all for watching this video.
I would've liked for us to meet in person,
but given the size of our college,
there was not a central campus space large enough for us to meet
and abide by the 50% capacity guidelines.
This video still provides an opportunity to share some updates
and recognize faculty and staff who are being honored with college and university awards.
Thank you all for your hard work over the past year.
And especially the last few months.
Ever since coming to Iowa State in 2012, I've been impressed with how hard people work here.
We get stuff done, without a lot of noise or self promotion.
This has been especially true since COVID hit.
College department chairs and program directors stepped up and solved innumerable problems.
From the monumental, to the minute.
All over the college, faculty, staff and students stepped up and accomplished the unthinkable.
You moved all classes online at a moment's notice,
kept the university running while working from home,
and yet continued to find time for research and innovation
including research that addressed challenges posed by COVID-19.
Here are just a handful of examples:
Associate Professor of Economics John Winters and graduate student Seung Jin Cho
conducted research to uncover a significant under-estimates in reported US unemployment numbers due to the pandemic
They found that unemployment rates reportedly jumping from 4% unemployment in February to 14.7% in April
didn't necessarily include people who were employed but temporarily laid off from work due to COVID-19 shutdowns.
They also found that individuals who were not working but currently looking for a job, were not represented in the reported rates.
Lily Wang and Yumou Qiu in our statistics department,
created a statistical model to track and predict COVID-19 deaths by county in the United States.
Their model and web-based reporting system was adopted by the CDC as one of a handful of statistical models
used to report data to the US government and citizens
and to inform their decisions and recommendations.
Led by Lily Wang, the group was the first to generate COVID-19 forecasts for all 3,104 counties in the 48 contiguous states and the District of Columbia.
In the chemistry department, Robbyn Anand and her students are developing a paper strip urine test
to detect the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
The tests are based on Anand's expertise in electro-kinetics
using electric fields to concentrate, separate, isolate and manipulate charged particles.
The test is designed to detect the presence of a coronavirus protein in a urine sample.
It is novel in may ways including the versatility.
It can be performed at home, in a workplace or in a doctor's office and would deliver quick results.
Let me also mention some COVID innovations in teaching.
Many of you may be familiar with Steve Butler
Barbara Janson Professor in Mathematics.
He was recognized in a university news story for his outstanding efforts in making online learning successful
and even enjoyable, especially this spring.
He is well respected by his peers for his research,
but also by students across the university
for his commitment to students.
Search for his name on Reddit or YouTube and you will find songs written and performed about him
and discussions about why he is such a great instructor, and more.
His legendary reputation even inspired someone to design a “Steve Butler face mask,”
which features a photographic replica of Steve’s mouth and beard.
Steve tried it on and made a hilarious video about it. Here is the link.
Across the college, so many of you went above and beyond when we had to switch to online classes in such a short time
There are so many success stories! Let me mention just a few.
Volker Hegelheimer, chair and professor in the Department of English, was asked by the U.S. Department of State
to extend the offering of a massive open online course he teaches to a worldwide audience
The course teaches language instructors how to apply technology, especially online learning, to their courses for improved outcomes.
Jennifer Knox, associate teaching professor of English,
jumped at the chance to incorporate the social climate in late March into a class assignment
At the time, face coverings were unfamiliar ground – event intimidating
and she asked students to analyze the context of different D-I-Y COVID-19 mask instruction sets, online and in print, for context.
Students were learning the importance of writing for an audience
For example, what was the intended reader’s level of expertise in COVID-19
and epidemiology in general?
Would the visual presentation make it easier to read?
An online format was the perfect vehicle for the assignment
their document analysis responses were posted in an online forum and they engaged in online discussions.
Jennifer said students from all majors came to the same conclusion
“In times of uncertainty, presenting information clearly and accessibly should never be confused with dumbing it down.”
Before we even had the need to find alternate teaching arrangements,
James Nemiroff, from the Department of World Languages and Cultures,
took advantage of virtual reality to give students in ISU classrooms an opportunity to tour Spain, virtually experiencing the sights and streets of a city.
After researching the culture and history,
students led their classmates in a virtual tour of a Spanish city.
This new technology provided an active learning environment to the class
and stimulated discussion and questions both asked and answered in Spanish.
More stories are coming – keep checking the college website, follow us on social media and read Around LAS.
As every year, let me share some data with you.
Let’s first look at enrollment.
Here you see the total enrollment at Iowa State University,
and the chart shows clearly how enrollment peaked in 2016 and has fallen back since then
to a level comparable to 2012. Enrollment in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences mirrors these trends.
Now remember that year – 2012. We will see in a moment that it is also a good reference point for faculty numbers.
On the right, you can see what percentage of ISU students are enrolled in LAS.
As you can see, our fraction declined somewhat since 2012 but has held roughly steady over the last five years.
In fact, for the last couple of years, LAS has brought in a larger incoming class than the College of Engineering!
Let me thank all of you who have helped recruit these new students to ISU and LAS.
Recruiting takes consistent, focused effort, and we recruit students one at a time.
Because we know the value of an ISU education, we all engage in this important effort,
even if recruiting is not an explicit part of our job description or PRS.
Thank you so much for all your contributions!
We are already working on bringing in the next cohort;
with new tools that allow us to meet with students and families without them traveling to campus,
we hope it will be even easier for faculty and staff to contribute to these efforts.
Our budget is largely determined by how many majors we have in the college
and how many students we teach every semester,
in other words, by tuition.
Smaller contributions to our budget come from a share of ISU’s state funds and from returned indirect cost
or IDC, from grants. The pie chart shows you the different contributions.
This year, the budget situation is quite challenging, all across the university.
Declining enrollments, the decision by the Board of Regents to hold tuition and fees flat,
state budget cuts and increased costs due to Covid-19 have taken a toll.
For LAS, our budget for fiscal year 21 is $11.4 million lower than last year. That’s a significant decline.
In this chart you can see how our budget has evolved over the last few years. It has clearly followed enrollment trends.
How are we going to manage this shortfall? We will just have to become a bit smaller.
As you know, the university is offering retirement incentives, and that will help.
We have taken a careful look at expenses at the college level. We have not replaced several staff positions,
in IT, communications and advising, and we have carefully scrutinized other expenses.
That has helped us save already well over a million dollars
We are fortunate to have the Transforming Liberal Arts and Sciences endowment,
thanks to a very large gift that came in several years ago.
We can use revenue from this endowment to help backfill missing tuition dollars.
Further, we are reducing some discretionary expenses.
For example, we will reduce the funds allocated towards research and travel awards.
This will not have a significant impact, since people have travelled a lot less anyway, due to the pandemic.
While we will continue to support faculty professional development assignments, we will fund them at a slightly lower level.
We have already started to scale back faculty hiring and I’ll be working with my team
and the college Budget Advisory Group to guide our budget planning for this year and next.
While this is not great news, let me emphasize that we have experienced budget challenges before.
While we have to take them seriously, we will continue to be guided by our mission to
“educate future leaders and citizens with a global perspective, conduct research and scholarship of international significance, and share our knowledge to benefit Iowa, the nation, and the world.”
I encourage all of you to think about new offerings which can attract new students to Iowa State University and the college.
Every year, I also share a slide that shows our faculty numbers.
They also follow enrollment trends
Remember that Fall 2020 enrollments are roughly what they were in 2012?
Here, you can see that this is also true for faculty numbers, with just slightly more term faculty.
The shift to term faculty is small, however: In 2012, term faculty made up roughly 26% of total faculty, and by 2020, that number had grown to about 27%.
Now to a few highlights from last year.
This spring we had an opportunity to honor an extraordinary artist who is an inspiration both as an educator and as a world-renowned opera singer.
Music Hall was officially re-named Simon Estes Music Hall in February,
and during a March celebration in his honor, Simon delivered an emotional speech that brought many to tears
It was a powerful event, celebrating the naming of a building after this celebrated African American.
We survived the implementation of Workday!
While the go-live was bumpy at times and we are still learning to live with some of the wrinkles of the new system,
it has also been very helpful
We have much more consistent processes and procedures in Human Resources
and much more consistent financial reporting. The latter is especially critical as we navigate a major budget reduction.
It was also a good year for fundraising. We deeply appreciate our generous donors who provide support for our students and faculty.
We are establishing a new named chair in chemistry, and we have commitments
to establish a new named professorship in physics and a new faculty support fund in psychology.
In the area of student support, our LAS Success Grants have been especially important.
Multiple donors are giving to this fund which provides emergency support for students who face unexpected financial challenges.
That could be a car that breaks down and needs to be repaired, or a parent losing their job.
Whatever it is, we provide anything from a few hundred to about a thousand dollars to the student’s u-bill,
quickly and unbureaucratically, to tide them over.
This has been really powerful, especially once Covid-19 hit. You can’t imagine how much the students appreciate this support!
And finally, I am excited to tell you that we have a donor couple who have committed a 6-figure gift
designed to support students or programmatic initiatives which advance diversity, inclusion, academic excellence and innovation,
with the emphasis on diversity and inclusion. This is the first such fund in the college, and we will work hard to create others.
Congratulations to six faculty who received recent CAREER awards from the National Science Foundation!
The university had ten total recipients, a record number for recent years.
The LAS recipients are:
Jacqueline Reber, assistant professor of geological and atmospheric sciences
Julia Zaikina, assistant professor of chemistry
Zhe Fei, assistant professor of physics and astronomy
Chaoqun (Crystal) Lu, assistant professor of ecology, evolution, and organismal biology
Kevin Liu, assistant professor of computer science, and
last but definitely not least - Betsy Swanner, associate professor of geological and atmospheric sciences
Another exciting honor was the election of Paul Canfield, Distinguished Professor of physics, to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
As you know, this is an extremely prestigious honor, and one that supports our position as an AAU member.
Paul is a condensed matter physicist who designs and discovers new materials and new properties.
His work on behalf of the university and the Ames Laboratory has had a large impact on our research reputation.
Congratulations, Paul.
We had an exciting “first” with Amy Erica Smith, LAS Dean’s Professor
and associate professor of political science, who was selected as Iowa State University’s first-ever Andrew Carnegie Fellow!
She is one of only 27 researchers nationwide to earn the honor in 2020,
and she joins a prestigious class of high-caliber scholars in the humanities and social sciences.
We also had a number of student honors this past year.
Toni Sleugh, a senior in biology and environmental studies, is one of just 55 students in the U.S. selected as an Udall Scholar by the Udall Foundation.
The scholarship recognizes students who demonstrate leadership, public service and commitment to issues related to the environment or Native American nations.
Toni is also a George Washington Carver Scholar and an Ernest F. Hollings Undergraduate Scholar.
After graduating from Iowa State, she will pursue a Ph.D. in marine biology and conservation.
Her goal is to research the effects of anthropogenic environmental change on the ecology and physiology of marine organisms and ways to reduce those impacts.
This year we had two students represent LAS majors as 2020 Goldwater Scholars.
Madeline Farringer, a senior in biochemistry, will pursue a Ph.D. in biomedical sciences.
Her goal is to lead an academic lab that conducts research on parasite cellular biology using functional genomics.
Madeline’s mentors are Josh Beck, assistant professor of biomedical sciences
Eric Underbakke, assistant professor of biochemistry, biophysics and molecular biology;
and Amy Andreotti, University Professor of biochemistry, biophysics and molecular biology
Behnia Rezazadeh Shirazi, a senior and triple major in biology, biophysics and biochemistry, will pursue an M.D. and Ph.D. in biomedical sciences.
His goal is to perform translational research through the National Institutes of Health
on innovative techniques for the prognosis and prevention of cardiovascular disease.
Behnia’s mentor in LAS is Mark Hargrove, professor of biochemistry, biophysics and molecular biology.
Our ISU Theatre program kept up their reputation as leaders, earning top student AND faculty awards
at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival for their region.
Senior Bethmari Marquez Barreto received first place in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF)
Region 5 ASPIRE Arts Leadership Fellowship awards.
She was recognized for her efforts in promoting diversity and leadership.
Sydni Lapsley, a junior in performing arts, and Taylor Sklenar, an Iowa State graduate student in the MFA in Creative Writing and Environment program,
were also awarded residencies at the prestigious William Inge Theatre Festival.
Amanda Petefish-Schrag, associate professor of theatre, was presented with the 2020 Region 5 KCACTF/Association
for Theatre in Higher Education Innovative Teaching Award.
Several students and faculty also received certificates of merit for their work, and
ISU Theatre performed its originally devised production of “Iowa Odyssey (Or How We Got to Here)” at the festival.
Let me briefly describe a few important initiatives that are in progress or new for this year.
Our alumni relations coordinator Robyn Goldy and our career services director Taren Reker worked together to launch LAS Connect
a new web-based platform designed to connect LAS students to LAS alumni.
It will help our students find alumni mentors and build their professional networks.
It will also engage our alumni, many of whom are excited to share their expertise.
Last year, I mentioned a concept for an LAS entrepreneurship program for students.
Over the past year, a task force of dedicated faculty and staff, led by Assistant Dean Kent Kerby,
created the LAS Innovation and Entrepreneurship Academy.
We interviewed seven candidates for the position of director of this academy and will bring two finalists to campus this fall.
Once named, the new director will work with the task force to recruit the first cohort of students into this two-year program.
We hear again and again from our students that they want more career services support.
LAS Connect, the LAS Innovation and Entrepreneurship Academy and our career development course, LAS 203,
are new initiatives that address these needs. They provide great opportunities for students
and I expect they will make us very attractive for prospective students and their parents.
Please help us get the word out and encourage the sophomores in your programs to enroll in LAS 203!
Let me conclude by discussing some ongoing efforts in the area of diversity, equity and inclusion.
The killing of George Floyd in late May and others reminded us, yet again, that we still have a long way to go to overcome racism.
Universities, as engines of social mobility and as a home to thought leaders who interrogate institutions and the impact of their policies, have to lead the way.
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has a special responsibility here.
We are home to the vast majority of courses in US Diversity, and our faculty are the campus experts when it comes to the history
and the current manifestations of racism in our society. We are also the college with the most diverse student population.
I said it very clearly in my message to faculty and staff after the George Floyd killing, and I will say it again now: Black Lives Matter.
Here are two commitments for the coming year and beyond.
One, we need to hire more faculty and staff of color.
I am delighted that Steven Waddell, who used to be the graduate assistant for the BOLD Learning Community,
our learning community for students from underrepresented groups, recently accepted a position as an adviser in LAS. Welcome, Steven!
I challenge all of you to explore new ways to seek out promising faculty and staff candidates
who will be future leaders in their fields and can increase diversity and inclusion in the college
We need to hire individuals who can be role models for our students of color.
Second, there are lots of good diversity efforts in the college but they are scattered and not very well coordinated.
We need to bring focus and visibility to what we do, and help departmental efforts
support and leverage one another.
We can do a lot more to build bridges to minority-serving institutions, to recruit graduate students, faculty and postdocs of color.
To coordinate these efforts, the college will soon launch a search for an assistant or associate dean for diversity, equity and inclusion.
This search will be open to interested and qualified candidates who are already at ISU. Please keep an eye out and apply or encourage others to apply.
Well, and then there is the pandemic.
. I haven’t talked about it much because I wanted to remind us that there are lots of other good things going on in the college.
That said, it will be dominating campus life this fall, so let me just say a few words.
The university has developed extensive capabilities in testing and contact tracing which will be critical for a successful fall semester.
We tested all students as they moved into university housing, with a 24-hour turn-around time for the results,
thanks to having a first-class Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory on campus.
The VDL received approval from the Iowa Department of Public Health to conduct Covid-19 testing,
and throughout the fall, any student, faculty or staff member who experiences symptoms or has been exposed
can go to the Thielen Health Center and get tested.
Results will come back within 24 hours. While this is not a silver bullet, it is still a tremendous asset.
Let’s all play our part in keeping our community safe
remember the four pillars of behavior that will help prevent the spread of COVID-19:
Wear a face covering
Keep your physical distance
Wash or sanitize hands often, and
Stay home when ill.
Once again, thank you all for your outstanding work this past year, especially over the past six months.
It will be a challenging year, no doubt, but together,
we’ll get through it and will have lots of accomplishments to share next year. Thank you.
Before we recognize our award recipients, I want to offer our sincere congratulations
and recognize colleagues who are new to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences,
since our last convocation.
On the convocation web site, you note a number of  new staff across the college, departments and programs
as well as new tenure-track faculty, new multi -year lecturers and new departmental and program leadership.
The URLof the website is in the description of this video.
I also want to offer our sincere congratulations to our promoted faculty.
Our new associate professors, new full professors, and newly promoted term faculty are listed on the convocation website.
Well done to all of you on this significant achievement in your professional careers.
We now turn to the awards portion of our program.
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has been extremely fortunate to create awards
that recognize faculty successes in research, scholarly achievement, and teaching excellence.
We begin by recognizing the recipients of awards that are funded through the generosity of our donors.
The Convocation website lists a number of donor-funded awards that are presented throughout the year
As Beate stated, we will begin with a few of our donor-funded awards.
We begin with three Cassling Family Faculty Awards.
The Cassling Family Faculty Awards were established by Randal and Lori Cassling of Omaha, Nebraska
in honor of Randal’s parents, Robert and Rita Lenore Dunn Cassling.
We congratulate Aili Mu, professor in the Department of World Languages and Cultures,
as the recipient of the Cassling Family Faculty Award  for Outstanding Teaching over an extended period of time. Congratulations, Dr. Mu.
We also congratulate George Archer, assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies,
who receives the Cassling Family Faculty Award for Early Achievement in Teaching. Congratulations, Dr. Archer.
Our final Cassling Family Faculty Award is the Cassling Innovation Award.
This award helps outstanding faculty members move innovative research ideas forward from the initial stage.
Congratulations to Julia Domínguez, associate professor in the Department of World Languages and Cultures. Well done, Dr. Domínguez.
Our next award—the Shakeshaft Master Teacher Award—was established in memory of Jerry Shakeshaft by his family, friends and colleagues.
Dr. Shakeshaft was a long-time political science professor at Iowa State dedicated to the positive impact of undergraduate teaching.
This award is presented to an outstanding teacher in the humanities and social sciences.
This year’s recipient is Beth Martin, associate professor in the Department of World Languages and Cultures. Congratulations Dr. Martin.
We now move to the LAS Awards Presentation.
We have exceptional talent in this college, and I am delighted to recognize the faculty and staff recipients of the 2020 College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Awards.
I will read the award category, then name the awardees and their department affiliation.
ward descriptions and an overview of each awardee's accomplishments are listed on the convocation website
I invite you to continue submitting congratulatory messages in the live chat box to celebrate the accomplishments of our colleagues.
Our first category of awards recognizes the Outstanding Advising that happens in the LAS college:
The Early Achievement in Academic Advising award recognizes the outstanding performance
of undergraduate academic advisers early in their career. Congratulations to: Terry J. Kruse, Accademic Adviser in the department of chemistry.
The Ruth W. Swenson Award for Outstanding Advising recognizes individuals
who have demonstrated outstanding performance as an undergraduate academic adviser over an extended period of time. Congratulations to:
Ann Haugland, academic adviser in the Department of Psychology with Communication Studies majors.
We now move on to the awards that recognize outstanding teaching.
The Early Achievement in Teaching awards recognize faculty members who have
demonstrated outstanding teaching at an early stage in their careers.
Congratulations to the following three recipients:
Carly L. Manz, Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology
Tao Wang, Assistant Professor, Department of History
Aaron R. Wood, Assistant Teaching Professor, Geological and Atmospheric Sciences
Our next award, Outstanding Achievement in Teaching, recognizes faculty members
for outstanding teaching performances over an extended period of time in undergraduate education
Congratulations to the following recipients:
Christina Bonaccorsi, Associate Professor of Teaching, Department of Chemistry
Heike Hofmann, Professor, Department of Statistics. Congratulations.
Next in our Teaching Awards category is the Excellence in Undergraduate Introductory Teaching award.
This award recognizes outstanding performance by those teaching entry-level courses in their disciplines. Congratulations to the following recipients:
Brian Behnken, Associate Professor, Department of History
Shenglan Zhang, Associate Professor, Department of World Languages and Cultures
Congratulations to all of those who do important work with our students.
Our next award—Excellence in Graduate Mentoring—recognizes those major professors
who serve as mentors and who enrich the student-professor relationship.Congratulations to:
Jonathan D. H. Smith, Professor, Department of Mathematics
The LAS Award for Inclusive Excellence recognizes faculty and staff who have
advanced the College’s vision for diversity through their teaching, scholarship, service or campus-community outreach.
Congratulations to this year’s recipient: Karin Dorman, Professor, Department of Statistics.
The first category of awards I will present is our Research Awards, which honor those faculty
who contribute significantly to Iowa State’s reputation as a world-class research institution.
Our Outstanding Achievement in Research Award recognizes faculty who have
a national or international reputation for contributions in research or artistic creativity. Congratulations to
Ruslan Prozorov, Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
The Mid-Career Achievement in Research Award recognizes faculty who make
outstanding contributions in research or the arts during the mid-career stage.
Congratulations to the following three recipients:
Wenyu Huang, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry
Amanda Petefish-Schrag, Associate Professor, Department of Music and Theatre
Amy Erica Smit, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Our Early Achievement in Research Award honors outstanding research or achievements
in the arts at an unusually early stage in an academic career. We have three recipients to honor with this award:
Bernard Lidicky, Associate Professor, Mathematics
Elizabeth Swanner, Associate Professor, Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences
Our next awards honor those who have positively enhanced LAS and Iowa State through leadership, excellence and service.
The International Service Award recognizes faculty members for outstanding international service
in teaching, research or administration, within the United States or abroad
Congratulations to: Abdi Kusow, Professor, Department of Sociology.
The Institutional Service Award recognizes faculty or staff for a history of exemplary institutional service
that has benefited the department, college and university. Congratulations to:
Gloria Jones-Johnson, Professor, Department of Sociology
Our Merit Excellence Award honors Merit employees who have achieved excellence in their respective fields. Congratulations to:
Valerie Awino, Laboratory Technician, Department of Chemistry
We also honor excellence by our P&S Staff. Congratulations to the following recipient of our Professional and Scientific Excellence Award:
Kenneth G. McCabe, Greenhouse Manager, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology
Our last award in this category recognizes new professional and scientific employees
who have quickly achieved excellence in their respective professions. Congratulations to:
Kimberly Hope, Program Coordinator, Women’s and Gender Studies Program.
Congratulations to all of our awardees and thank you for all that you do for the college, for your departments and for the university.
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has several faculty and staff who have received University-level awards
for their teaching, research and service to the institution. Today, the college community
would like to celebrate their accomplishments.
I will read the names of the award recipients now and I invite you to continue submitting congratulatory remarks in the live chat box
I’ll begin with the highest honors the university awards to faculty. Congratulations to our newest Distinguished Professors:
Matt DeLisi
Pamela Riney-Kerhberg
Congratulations to our newest University Professors:
Lisa Larson
Javier Vela-Becerra
And congratulations also to our newest Morrill Professors:
Mark Hargrove
Loreto Prieto
Beth Martin
ISU Award for Outstanding Achievement in Teaching
Aili Mu, ISU Award for Outstanding Achievement in Teaching
Flor Romero-Slowing, ISU Award for Early Achievement in Academic Advising
Stephen Biggs, ISU Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Introductory Teaching
Arthur Winter, ISU Award for Achievement in Intellectual Property
Jigang Wang , ISU Award for Mid-Career Achievement in Research
Monic Behnken, ISU Award for Inclusive Excellence
Tracie Ann Hennen-Bierwagen, ISU P&S Research Award
Teresa Fernando, ISU P&S Excellence Award
Jacob Larsen, ISU P&S Excellence Award
Christopher Myers, ISU P&S Outstanding New Professional Award
Congratulations to our University-level award recipients. The university will celebrate these individuals in the fall.
Thank you for joining us for the first ever virtual LAS Fall Convocation program!
We once again welcome our new faculty and staff, and congratulate our promoted faculty and award recipients for their achievements.
I now invite you to follow the link in the live chat box to explore the LAS Fall Convocation website and learn more about our promoted faculty and award recipients.
Thank you for all you do for the college and the university and have a great year. And stay safe.
Congratulations!
