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The Update, December 2014, University Of Northern Iowa. College Of Humanities, Arts And Sciences.

Update

Inside this issue:

-- Harlem Hellfighters: UNI Alumnus Publishes Award Winning Book
-- Department News
-- School of Music Events
-- Science Students Travel to Minneapolis: 50th Anniversary of the Nobel Conference
-- Faculty Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity Awards
-- Graphic Design Students Create Work for the Community: Students Created Work for the Hearst Center for the Arts and Cedar Rock State Park
-- Alumni Spotlight: Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry: Dane Jacobson
-- Alumni Spotlight: Department of Physics: Jack Dostal
-- Alumni Spotlight: Department of Earth Science: Cara Wright
-- Student Spotlight: Department of Philosophy & World Religions: …

The Update, October [November] 2014, University Of Northern Iowa. College Of Humanities, Arts And Sciences.

Update

Inside this issue:

-- Nature's Toolbox: Exhibition at the UNI Gallery of Art
-- Department News
-- School of Music Events

-- Art Works for Change
-- UNI Gallery of Art Awarded $32,500 Grant by Institute of Museum and Library Services
-- Faculty Awards
-- Dr. Wendy Miller Selected as Iowa's Outstanding Higher Education Art Director
-- Spooky Stuff: UNI Chemistry & Biochemistry Host Annual Halloween House Event
-- Student Spotlight: Department of Languages and Literatures: Vanessa Espinoza
-- Student Spotlight: Department of Communication Studies: Mikayla Lien
-- Alumnus Spotlight: Department of Art: Andrew Van Fleet
-- Student Spotlight: Department …

The Update, October 2014, University Of Northern Iowa. College Of Humanities, Arts And Sciences.

Update

Inside this issue:

-- WGS Internship in Guatemala: UNI Student Travels to Guatemala
-- Department News
-- School of Music Events
-- Communication Sciences and Disorders Trip to Managua, Nicaragua
-- UNI Sustainability Certificate: Board of Regents Certification
-- Midwest International Piano Competition
-- PACA Convention: Listening: An Essential Element of Communication
-- Panther Days: Panther Open Houses and UNI Up-Close
-- New Faculty Join the CHAS Team
-- New CHAS Ambassadors
-- New Promotions Assistants
-- Alumni Spotlight: Department of Music: Nicolle Foland
-- Alumni Spotlight: Science Education: Lisa Chizek
-- Graduate Student Symposium: UNI Department of Technology Students …

Iowa Academy Of Science: The New Bulletin, V10n3, Fall 2014, Iowa Academy Of Science

New Bulletin

Inside This Issue:

--Message from the Executive Director

--Member Only Website Log-in

--ICTM-ISTS Math Science Fall Conference

--New IAS Program Coordinator

--New REAP Grant

--New Academy Website

--Iowa Science Foundation

--Recognizing Excellence

--Events and Deadlines

--Excellence in Science Teaching Award

Tallgrass Prairie Center Newletter, Autumn 2014, University Of Northern Iowa. Tallgrass Prairie Center.

Tallgrass Prairie Center Newsletter

Inside This Issue:

-- The Tallgrass Prairie Center Goes to Washington (and Missouri, West Virginia, and Colorado)
-- 2015 Iowa Prairie Conference
-- ISAC Excellence in Action Award to UNI's Native Seed Distribution Program
-- What You Sow Is What Will Grow
-- The effect of summer floods on plant and wildlife diversity in managed prairie plantings: observations from a "natural experiment" in the Cedar River floodplain
-- Ecological Restoration Seminar
-- Friends of the Tallgrass Prairie Center
-- New Grad Student/Employees
-- Name that plant?

The Update, April/May 2014, University Of Northern Iowa. College Of Humanities, Arts And Sciences.

Update

Inside this issue...

-- Student Spotlight: Biology: Susan Graves
-- Department News
-- UBS Outstanding Teacher Award Recipients
-- School of Music Events
-- Celebrate Earth Week with the RRTTC
-- William & Stephanie Clohesy Documentary Film Series
-- UNI Botanical Center to Hold Its 15th Annual Spring Plant Sale
-- Alumni Spotlight: Computer Science: Tony Bibbs
-- Alumni Spotlight: Communication Studies, Language & Literatures: Therese Kuster
-- Alumni Spotlight: Mathematics: Ben Wadsley
-- Featured Organization: George Walker Society of Music, School of Music
-- Featured Organization: Grafx Club, Technology
-- Professionals and Students Awarded 19 American Advertising Awards
-- …

Iowa Academy Of Science: The New Bulletin, V10n2, Spring 2014, Iowa Academy Of Science

New Bulletin

Inside This Issue:

--Message from the Executive Director

--Candidates for IAS President –Elect

--Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science

--Iowa Academy of Science 2014 Ballot

--Specify where your IAS donation goes

--2013 Member Donations to the Academy

--Announcements, Events & Deadlines

The Update, March 2014, University Of Northern Iowa. College Of Humanities, Arts And Sciences.

Update

Inside this issue...

-- Slam Dunk : Featured Org, English Club
-- Department News
-- School of Music Events
-- Interpreters Theatre Productions Schedule
-- Department of Technology to Host "Expanding Your Horizons"
-- Two CHAS Alumnae Presented Outstanding Thesis Awards
-- Cyberdefense Competition Team
-- Featured Organization: Women in Physics Club
-- Shane Lies: Student Spotlight, Chemistry
-- Leanne Hotek: Alumni Spotlight, Philosophy & World Religions
-- Coming Up at Theatre UNI: Mauritius & August: Osage County

Proceedings Of The 126th Annual Meeting Of The Iowa Academy Of Science [Program, 2014], Iowa Academy Of Science

Iowa Academy of Science Documents

Contents:

Program Summary --- 2-3
Acknowledgements --- 4
Table of Contents --- 5
Iowa Junior Academy of Science Competition --- 6
General Session I --- 7
Iowa Junior Academy of Science Award Luncheon --- 8
Iowa Academy of Science Business Meeting --- 8
Necrology --- 8
Special Events --- 9
Iowa Academy of Science 2012-2013 Volunteers --- 10-11
Symposium A --- 12
Symposium B --- 13
Symposium C --- 14
Senior Poster Session Program --- 15-19
Social Hour --- 20
President's Banquet --- 20-21
General Session II --- 22
General Session III --- 23
Excellence in Science Teaching Awards Luncheon …

Biology News, Winter 2014, University Of Northern Iowa. Department Of Biology.

Biology News

Inside this issue:

-- Greetings from the Department of Biology
-- Biology Students and Alumni

-- Department News

-- The Department of Biology receives funding for specimens and microscopes from the Carver Charitable Trust
-- Carl Thurman's efforts extend the benefit of Carver Funding
-- Reconnect with the Department of Biology

-- Faculty and Staff News
-- Jeff Tamplin receives $60,000 grant
-- Marine Biology (new course offering)
-- Field trip to hatchery
-- Award of Faculty Excellence
-- Dean's Teaching Award
-- TriBeta Teaching Award

-- Student Club News
-- Student clubs combined to travel to Omaha zoo
-- …

The Update, January/February 2014, University Of Northern Iowa. College Of Humanities, Arts And Sciences.

Update

Inside this issue...

-- Name That! App
-- Department News
-- Name That! App
-- School of Music Events
-- UNI Students Write "The World of Kurt Vonnegut"
-- Just Ann: A Musical about the Life and Times of Former Texas Governor, Ann Richards
-- Interpreters Theatre Productions Schedule
-- Student Spotlight: School of Music: Claudia Restrepo:
-- UNI Women's & Gender Studies Presents: CROW Forum
-- Student Spotlight: Mathematics: Benjamin Castle
-- Featured Organization: Construction Management Club
-- Alicia Jessip Receives Diversity Matters Award
-- Coming Up at Theatre UNI: Mauritius & August: Osage County
-- Student Spotlight: Art: …

Communiqué: College Of Humanities, Arts & Sciences Alumni Magazine,Volume 3, Winter 2014, University Of Northern Iowa. College Of Humanities, Arts, And Sciences.

Communiqué: College of Humanities, Arts & Sciences Alumni Magazine

Inside this issue:

-- Dean's Message
-- The Oldest Literary Magazine in the Country
-- Even the King Plays Jazz
-- Briefs: Humanities and Fine Arts
-- Inari and a Land Between Two Rivers
-- By the Light
-- The American Way of Eating
-- Kristallnacht: Threads of Memories
-- Finding a Voice
-- CHAS Applause
-- Transitions
-- News in Short
-- 3D Printer: Dimensional Opportunities
-- Americorps: Iowa Energy Efficiency
-- Yager Award
-- Salamanders, Snakes and Turtles, Oh My!
-- Titan: One Man's Search for Answers from a Moon
-- Plant, Grow, Harvest: UNI's Panther Plot
-- …

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Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science: JIAS

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Gene Expression Of Components Of The Insulin/Insulin-Like Signaling Pathway In Response To Heat Stress In The Garter Snake, Thamnophis Elegans, Tonia S. Schwartz, Anne M. Bronikowski

Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science: JIAS

The insulin/insulin-like signaling (IIS) pathway is an evolutionary conserved molecular signaling pathway that regulates growth, reproduction, stress resistance, and longevity in response to nutrition and external stress. While the constituents of this pathway and their functions are relatively well understood in laboratory model animals, they have not been explored in many other organisms, with notable exceptions in the fisheries literature. We tested for the gene expression of four key components of this pathway in the garter snake (Thamnophis elegans) liver, and determine how the transcription of these components responds to heat stress. We found that the two insulin-like …

Improved Functional Prediction Of Hypothetical Proteins From Listeria Monocytogenes 08-5578, Michael J. Lagier, Brittany Bowman, Kelsey Brend, Katherine Hobbs, Michael Foggia, Mark Mcdaniel

Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science: JIAS

Listeria monocytogenes is a foodborne human pathogen responsible for listerosis. The genomes of several L. monocytogenes strains have been recently sequenced. The genome of L. monocytogenes 08-5578, which was in part responsible for a significant listerosis outbreak in 2008, contains an unexpectedly high percentage of protein-encoding genes (1,927 out of 3,161; 60.96%) autonomously annotated as hypothetical proteins. The aim of this study was to test whether a manual annotation strategy could be used to assign more meaningful functional names to the hypothetical proteins of 08-5578. A holistic, manual gene annotation strategy that utilized sequence homology, cellular localization predictions, structure-based evidence, …

The Role Of An Urban Tallgrass Prairie Remnant In Conservation: A Case Study In Central Iowa (Usa), Jimmie D. Thompson, Deborah Q. Lewis, William R. Norris

Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science: JIAS

Although more than 85% of Iowa (USA) was covered by tallgrass prairie at the time of settlement by Europeans in the early 19th century, less than 0.1% remains. The Richard W. Pohl State Preserve at Ames (IA) High School, surrounded on three sides by structures, roads, and other development, protects 4 ha of tallgrass prairie. The preserve, commonly referred to as Ames High Prairie (AHP), was grazed but never plowed under private ownership until its acquisition by the Ames School District in 1959.

Although considered for development as a parking lot or football field in the 1960s, the residents of …

Synchronous Rotation In The Eclipsing Binary 68 Herculis Inferred From Doppler Shifts In Its Spectrum And Light Curve Modeling, Kenneth W. Mclaughlin, Janak Panthi

Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science: JIAS

Our differential photometry of the eclipsing binary 68 Herculis through V- and R-filters shows periodic minima consistent with a previously established period. As a function of its orbital motion, we report spectra over a limited wavelength range encompassing H-alpha 656.3 nm and helium 667.8 nm lines. Doppler shifts of both stars were resolved in H-alpha, while only the more massive star rendered the helium line with Doppler shifts that agree with the radial velocity we derive for it from the H-alpha profile. Sinusoidal curve-fits to the orbital dependence of the radial velocities imply circular orbits for both components, with amplitudes …