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2007 |
- Dancing in the Dark with Termites
Barbara Stay , Department of Biological Sciences
- Music Therapy: Improving Quality of Life
Mary Adamek , School of Music
- Nanotechnology: Solving Big Problems with Small Science
Sarah Larsen , Department of Chemistry
- Freedom of Expression: For a Price
Kembrew McLeod , Communication Studies
- Ethical Activism in the Poetry of Adrienne Rich and Mary Oliver
Linda Bolton, Department of English
- Animated Culture: Contemporary Experimental Art Practices
Jon Winet , School of Art and Art History
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2006 |
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Architecture as Art: Steven Holl’s New Home for the School of Art and Art History
Dorothy Johnson, School of Art and Art History
- The Curious Appearance of Jazz and Improvisation in the 20th Century
John Rapson, School of Music (Division of Performing Arts)
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Journey to the Center of the Milky Way Galaxy
Cornelia Lang, Department of Physics and Astronomy
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Waving Your Arms: A Conductor Struggles to be Understood
Timothy Stalter, School of Music (Division of Performing Arts)
- Development and Disease: Fishing for Answers
Diane Slusarski, Department of Biological Science
- Politics: What’s Emotion Got to Do With It?
David Redlawsk, Department of Political Science
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2005 |
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From Vaudeville to the Nickelodeon: Tin Pan Alley Singalongs
Rick Altman, Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature
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Down and Out: Women'sPoverty, Crime, and Imprisonment
Karen Heimer, Department of Sociology
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So You Want to be an Actor: What Makes a Great Performance?
Alan MacVey, Theatre Arts Department (Division of Performing Arts)
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Through a Glass Darkly: Dark Energy and the Fate of the Universe
Robert Mutel, Department of Physics and Astronomy
- Crossing the Road Safely: Children on Bicycles
Jodie Plumert, Department of Psychology
- Shakespeare on Passion, Deceit, and Sadness
Doug Trevor, Department of English
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2004 |
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From Kabuki to Peter Pan:Cross Gender and Cross Cultural Theatre Costumes
Loyce Arthur, Department of Theatre Arts (Division of Performing Arts)
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100 Years and Counting: A “Radical” View of the Science of Aging
Kevin Kregel, Department of Exercise Science
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Broadway Starmaking at the Turn of the Last Century
Kim Marra, Department of Theatre Arts (Division of Performing Arts)
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Marketing Culture: Native Amazonians in the Public Sphere
Laura Graham, Department of Anthropology , College of Education
- Immigrants' America: Then and Now
Shelton Stromquist, Department of History
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2003 |
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Only Natural: The Horn of Mozart and Beethoven
Kristin Thelander, Director, School of Music, Division of Performing Arts
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Oh Baby: Fertility Decline in the Richest
Nations on Earth
Jennifer Glass, Department of Sociology; Department of Behavioral and
Community Health, College of Public Health
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Tandem Stories: Traveling Iceland By-cycle
Steve Thunder-McGuire, School of Art and Art History; Curriculum and Instruction,
College of Education
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Herbal Products: They’re Organic
but Are They Safe?
David Wiemer, Department of Chemistry
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Maps and Their Makers: Decidedly Deliberate
Deceptions and Distortions
Marc Armstrong, Department of Geography
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2002 |
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Motherhood, Is It Bad for Your Health: What
Your Mother Didn't Tell You
Michael O'Hara, Department of Psychology
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The Big, the Violent, and the Expensive:
How We Make Pictures of War
David Wittenberg, Departments of English and Cinema and Comparative Literature
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The Dead Speak: Lessons from Tyrannosaur
Chris Brochu, Department of Geoscience
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Jewish Women in India: Rethinking the Middle
East
Jael Silliman, Department of Women's Studies
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Just Beneath My Skin: Autobiography and
Self-Discovery
Patricia Foster, Department of English
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The Neanderthal Mystery: Who Were They
and Why Did They Disappear?
Robert Franciscus, Department of Anthropology
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2001 |
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Work, More Work, Work Everlasting!
Benjamin Hunnicutt,
Department of Health, Leisure and Sport Studies
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Iowa Physicians in the Depression
Susan Lawrence,
Department of History
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Do Infant Rats Cry? And Why Should We Care?
Mark Blumberg,
Department of Psychology
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The Civility Trap: America's Nostalgia
for a More Civil Time
Melissa Deem,
Department of Women's Studies and Rhetoric
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A Reading from the Novel, Carry Me Across
the Water
Ethan Canin,
Department of English; Writers' Workshop
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Lessons on Empowerment: Listening to the
Voices of Entrepreneurial Women
Salome Raheim,
The School of Social Work
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2000 |
- Shakespeare: Side by Side
Miriam
Gilbert, Department of English
- The Aurora Borealis: Nature’s Lightshow in the Sky
Craig Kletzing, Department
of Physics and Astronomy
- Oboe on the Road
Mark Weiger,
School of Music, Division of Performing Arts
- Yesteryear’s Wonderlands: How Amusement Parks Introduced
Modernism to America
Lauren Rabinovitz, American
Studies/Cinema & Comp Literature
- All that Jazz: Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington
Horace
Porter, African American World Studies/ Department of
English
- Eye, Brain, and Mind
Steven
Luck, Department of Psychology
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1999 |
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Do You Hear What I Hear: Music Perception
Through a Bionic Ear”
Kate Gfeller,
Music/Speech Pathology & Audiology
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Snow Pack in Colorado—The Big Meltdown?
The Future of Water Resoruces and Climate Change
David
McGinnis, Department of Geography
- From YMCA to NBA: The Western Stamp on Chinese Sports
Judy
Polumbaum, Journalism and Mass Communication
- Eve Drewelow: An Iowa Collection
Joni
Kinsey, Art and Art History
- The Return of Little Big Man
Brooks Landon,
English
- Behind the Scenes: Contemporary Lighting Design
Byron
Winn, Theatre Arts
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1998 |
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Womb with a View: The Development of Behaviour
Before Birth
Scott Robinson, Psychology
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Messages for Healing
Alice
Fulton, Biochemistry
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Fascinating Frogs
Linda Maxson,
Biological Sciences
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Minding Animals
Edward Wasserman,
Psychology
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Art and Life in Africa
Christopher
Roy and Linda McIntyre, Art and Art History
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Photo-Sensitive: Walt Whitman and Nineteenth
Century Photography
Ed Folsom, English
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