Iowa Political Science

Congratulations to Professor Caroline Tolbert and Alum Nate Adams-Micatka on co-authoring a paper titled, "Can nonpartisan primaries boost turnout and lessen demographic disparities?" that has been published in Plos One! tinyurl.com/PLOS2025

Congratulations to Simal Gerot on receiving the 2025 APSA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grantees!

CLAS student and 2025 Global Student Award recipient Leila Assadi has shown what it means to be a globally-minded Hawkeye through her involvement in the community and international education. Read a Q&A with Assadi here: bit.ly/43wCeCx

Congratulations to Professor Julie Pacheco on co-authoring a paper titled, "Why Building Power Is Key to Protecting Academic Public Health and Advancing Health Equity" that has been published in the American Journal of Public Health! tinyurl.com/AJPH2025

Our very own Ambassador Ron McMullen was invited to speak at the Paul Simon Public Policy Center at the University of Southern Illinois in Carbondale. He spoke on Challenges to U.S. Diplomacy Amid the Changing World Order. facebook.com/share/p/19f5mh… youtube.com/watch?v=JHTcPa…

Congratulations Professor Mitchell, Professor Pizzi and Tianhui Wu!

Wishing everyone a safe and relaxing Fourth of July weekend!

Congratulations Professor Tolbert!🖤💛

Congratulations to Professor Colin Case (@colinrcase )!

Nine CLAS faculty members have been recognized for contributing to the classroom and community during the 2024-25 academic year with teaching and engagement awards. Read about each faculty member and their recognition here: bit.ly/4mvvAUY

Congratulations to the class of 2025! Way to go! Check out our graduation congrats in today’s @TheDailyIowan

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is excited to acknowledge the scholarship and achievement of students who are graduating this fall with distinction and honors. We are proud of all your hard work! View the list of students: bit.ly/4iQA0mh

The Hawkeyes behind the feathers. 🐤 🎓 Congrats to @TheREALHerky and all Hawks graduating this week!

Meet this year's CLAS commencement singers John Wombacher and Alix Bushard. Wombacher will sing at the 9 a.m. ceremony, and Bushard will sing during the 1 p.m. ceremony on Saturday, May 17. Read about this year's commencement singers: bit.ly/3GXrR1Q

Meet the spring 2025 CLAS commencement speakers, both of whom are involved in Cinematic Arts! Reed Niebauer, the morning speaker, majored in cinema and communication studies. The afternoon speaker Angela Boateng majored in political science with a minor in cinema. Congrats! 🎓

CSSI recently concluded our 2025 Dissertation Completion Program (DCP), which offers support and resources for graduate students in the final years of their dissertations. Get to know this year's DCP participants, their dissertation projects, and program reflections here: shorturl.at/QHofy

New publications alert! 🚨Four researchers associated with CSSI have recently published studies! Read them using the links below. Caroline Tolbert (CSSI researcher affiliate) and Nathan Micatka (Dissertation Completion Program participant) [@UiPolisci]: doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.7… Brian An (CSSI researcher affiliate, @UIowaEducation): doi.org/10.1080/016396… Heather Reisinger (CSSI researcher affiliate, @IntMedatIowa): doi.org/10.1186/s12882…

The final push. Last week of classes 😎

Graduate and undergraduate students in CLAS are working on many exciting projects across various disciplines. Students are working on various research and creative projects to expand their knowledge. Learn about each of their projects and interests here: bit.ly/3Yuui25