| Meet the 40 students and postdocs featured on downtown banners | The Dare to Discover campaign celebrates outstanding UI student and postdoc researchers. This year’s cohort features exemplary young scholars advancing work on important projects like endometrial cancer treatment, flood management, understanding dementia, sustainable design, and so much more. The link below has been fixed. | | | | The deadline for the new grant opportunity that supports interdisciplinary research that will lead to a large grant award is approaching. We encourage applications from all disciplines.
There is just over one week left to finish an application. | | | The Arts and Humanities Initiative (AHI) awards grants support creative and scholarly work that advances humanist principles for spring 2026 are now open. Scholars can receive up to $7,500 for a standard grant and up to $30,000 for a major project grant.
Apply by March 10. | | | | The University of Iowa's Center for Social Science Innovation (CSSI) and OVPR are exploring the renewal of an institutional membership with the Central Plains Federal Statistical Research Data Center (CPRDC).
- Qualified UI researchers can access restricted-use federal datasets available through the U.S. Census Bureau.
- To access this secure data, UI researchers must physically visit the Iowa FSRDC in Ames.
If you have interest in accessing the data, please fill out the interest form. | | | Help your humanities graduate students explore professional pathways beyond academia. Through a new grant, the Obermann Center is offering six paid summer internships with local nonprofits.
Please encourage your community-minded students to apply for these skill-building opportunities by March 2. | | | | Two associate vice presidents (AVPs) for research have recently been recognized as leaders in their respective fields:
Kristy Nabhan-Warren, AVP of research and professor and Figge Chair in Catholic Studies, was elected as the 2027 President of the American Catholic Historical Association.
Aliasger Salem, AVP of research and Lyle and Sharon Bighley Endowed Chair and professor in Pharmaceutical Sciences, was named among the "World’s Top 2% Scientists" by Stanford University, along with other UI faculty members. | | | The University of Iowa has won nearly $1.5 million to expand its materials science center and to explore new ways to leverage materials for quantum technologies.
The locus of the research will be at the MATFab Facility, which was created by the OVPR to centralize the university’s advanced micro-nanofabrication research. The facility, housed in 1,500 square feet of clean room space at the Iowa Advanced Technology Laboratories, has deposition and etching tools for building structures at the micro and nanoscale. | | | | Do you know what an airway epithelial monolayer culture looks like? How about the inside of a mouse colon? UI voted and these are some of the most beautiful views from a microscope.
The annual Iowa Art in Science Contest recognizes the combination of outstanding scientific discovery and artistic appeal inherent to microscopy research. It is supported by the Central Microscopy Research Facility. | | | The Science Coalition Alyse Gray Parker Memorial Student Video Challenge encourages students to share basic scientific research means to them and the nation.
Hiruni Sumanasiri took third place in the undergraduate category for highlighting her work on ovarian and endometrial cancer research at the University of Iowa's Thiel Lab. | | | |
