May News from OVPR

May offers a time to celebrate, with commencement ceremonies and the arrival of summer break. Below, we celebrate a variety of faculty and staff achievements: OVPR team members who have received university-wide honors, a faculty member's early career research award, and the people whose everyday efforts keep labs and workspaces across campus safe. 

OVPR team members honored with university-wide awards

Meet two faculty and two staff members with roles in the Office of the Vice President for Research who recently received awards recognizing their extraordinary contributions to the University of Iowa.

Chemistry professor secures NSF CAREER award

Aditi Bhattacherjee, assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, recently earned the National Science Foundation's most prestigious award for early career faculty.

UI welcomes new member class to NAI chapter

The University of Iowa’s local chapter of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) has selected six new members to join in 2025.

EHS celebrates individuals and teams leading the way in lab safety

Environmental Health and Safety issued nine awards as part of its annual Lab Safety Rewards and Recognition program. 

Level up your proposals with the Write Winning Grant Proposals Seminar

The Research Development Office has opened registration for this perennial favorite, taking place on Thursday, Oct. 9. Mark your calendars now!

Meet the awardees of CSSI’s inaugural Surveying the Social World initiative

The Center for Social Science Innovation's new research incubation initiative will provide select researchers with funding and support to collect high-quality, nationally representative survey data.

As a part of the P3-funded Writing for the Public Good initiative, the University of Iowa is an institutional member of The Conversation, an independent news organization dedicated to unlocking the knowledge of academic experts for the public good. Here's a look at recent work published by campus authors.

	Shawn Datchuk, Associate Professor of Special Education Can learning cursive help kids read better? Some policymakers think it’s worth a try
	Hannah D. Patton, PhD Candidate in Immunology How bird flu differs from seasonal flu − an infectious disease researcher explains
	Gregory H. Shill, Professor of Law & Michael and Brenda Sandler Faculty Fellow in Corporate Law The founder kings of Silicon Valley: Dual-class stock gives US social media company controllers nearly as much power as ByteDance has over TikTok