Heather Chamberlain-Irwin, Ph.D. student in the interdisciplinary Ecology and Evolutionary Biology program and co-advised by anthropologist Dr. Andrew Somerville (Department of World Languages and Cultures) and maize geneticist Dr. Matthew Hufford (Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology), is the recipient of two prestigious dissertation funding awards in the amount of $63,000.
Krysten Craft will serve as the Graduate College’s student marshal at the fall 2023 graduate student commencement on Friday, Dec.
The Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR) Fellows Program selected two Iowa State graduate students for its 2023 cohort. Oluwatuyi Olowoyeye, doctoral student in Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, and Erika Ibarra-Garibay, doctoral student in Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology, are the first students from Iowa State to be selected for this fellowship.
Dr. Rick Dorn, recent Ph.D. graduate from the Department of Chemistry, is the winner of the 2023 Zaffarano Prize for Publishable Research. The prize, established by former Graduate College dean Daniel Zaffarano 1988, honors students with superior publishable research, as Zaffarano believed publishing was a vital part of the graduate experience.
Dr. Carrie Ann Johnson, recent Ph.D. graduate in Rhetoric and Professional Communication, focused her dissertation on a highly under-researched topic: whisper networks, or the informal communication channels that women use to keep one another safe from sexual harassment and other forms of sexism. Her work earned her the 2023 Karas Award for Outstanding Dissertation.
Heather Greenlee started her role in the Graduate College as associate dean for student and scholar success in spring 2023. She will lead the efforts to increase graduate student enrollment by improving recruitment and admissions, onboarding and retention, and mentoring by major professors. Greenlee earned her master's and doctoral degrees from Iowa State and has served as an equity advisor for the College of Veterinary Medicine and a director of graduate education for the Department of Biomedical Sciences. She answered a few questions about her new role in the Graduate College.
Elena Cotos began her role as associate dean for professional development in the Graduate College last month. She has worked for Iowa State since 2009 and became the director of the Graduate College's Center for Communication Excellence (CCE) in 2015. Cotos also serves as an associate professor of English and earned her Ph.D. in applied linguistics and technology from Iowa State.
Michelle Soupir joined the Graduate College as interim associate dean in 2022. Her main focus is an initiative to enhance and modernize Graduate College operations. Soupir has also served as associate chair for research and extension in the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering at Iowa State and has been an Iowa State faculty member since 2008. She answered a few questions about her role in the Graduate College and goals for her position.
Abigail Schulte is a first-year graduate student in Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering. She is one of eight finalists for Iowa State's 2022 Three Minute Thesis competition. You can watch Abigail's presentation, "Optimizing solid-state anaerobic digestion of prairie grass and dairy manure," on Thursday, Nov. 10.
