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Use this listing to find offices and phone numbers for administrative staff and collegiate leaders in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

HR Request Forms

Review Request Forms to learn how to submit transaction requests, access workflow and more. You can also learn more about shared governance practices and volunteer opportunities for faculty, staff, and students.

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Events for faculty and staff in CLAS

Are you holding an event you'd like to share with faculty and staff in CLAS? Please add your event to the UI Events calendar selecting both the "College of Liberal Arts and Sciences" unit tag and the "faculty/staff" audience tag.

 

Upcoming events

DeLTA Center Talk: Matthew Lira promotional image

DeLTA Center Talk: Matthew Lira

Friday, September 18, 2026 9:00am to 10:30am
University Capitol Centre
DeLTA Center Talk featuring Matthew Lira, Assistant Professor of Learning at the University of Iowa.
Biology Seminar: "How Neuron Identities and Sources of Energy Control Synapse Stability" promotional image

Biology Seminar: "How Neuron Identities and Sources of Energy Control Synapse Stability"

Friday, September 18, 2026 3:30pm
Biology Building East
The Department of Biology’s seminar speaker on Friday, September 18, is Andy Frank, PhD, a Professor in the Department of Anatomy (College of Medicine) at the University of Iowa. His seminar will be held at 3:30pm in Kollros Auditorium (Room 101), Biology Building East (BBE).
CS Colloquium - "Learning Sparse Dependence Structure in Complex-Valued Tensor Data" promotional image

CS Colloquium - "Learning Sparse Dependence Structure in Complex-Valued Tensor Data"

Friday, September 18, 2026 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Schaeffer Hall
Complex-valued tensor data arise in signal processing and neuroscience. Learn more about the method using local field potential recordings, where sparse separable factor analysis (SSFA) captures dependence across brain region, frequency, and time and supports reconstruction of missing signals
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