Iowa State University Professor Heading to Italy for Fellowship

Thomas Leslie, an architecture professor at Iowa State University, has won a 2013 Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, according to the Des Moines Business Record.

Leslie will be part of a a 120-year lineage of Rome Prize Fellows that represents America's nobility in the humanities and arts, the article said.

During his six-month fellowship in Rome, Leslie will document, analyze and advocate for the preservation of buildings by Pier Luigi Nervi, a postwar Italian engineer and architect.

Past fellows include composer Aaron Copland; architects Louis Kahn and Maya Lin; writers William Styron and Frank McCourt; and artists Roy Lichtenstein and Frank Stella, the article said.