CLAS Research Resource Issue #5: February 2021

CLAS Research Resource: February 2021

Joshua Weiner

A year into COVID, and CLAS research remains strong.

Our college’s researchers have stuck to their mission and made the best of the situation. Read more . . .


Click here for an easy-to-read e-mag version of CLAS Research Resource.

Upcoming grant and fellowship deadlines: February-March


CLAS Research and Infrastructure units:

Associate Dean for Research

CLAS Technology Services

Space, Facilities, and Equipment

Grant Support Office

Office of Sustainability and the Environment

GSO lockup

Gearing up to provide all CLAS units with pre- and post-award grant support

Kristi Fitzpatrick, Director of the CLAS Grant Support Office, unveils the GSO's vision: providing EVERY unit in CLAS with grant support from application to project close-out.  Read more . . .

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Featured Funding Programs: Obermann Center for Advanced Studies

Learn about the funding programs available through the UI's Obermann Center for Advanced Studies Read More . . .

English-Philosophy Building

Windows Updates: Real windows, we mean

CLAS Director of Facilities Eugene Buck talks about upcoming building maintenance projects, including all new windows in the English-Philosophy Building. Read more . . . 

students and faculty in prairie

Ashton Research Prairie: A living classroom and lab on the UI campus

Stratis Giannakouros, director of the Office of Sustainability and the Environment, tells us about the UI's Prairie Reconstruction Project—and how you and your students can be involved in the research under way. Read more . . .

Cesare Tinelli

Meet the Researcher: Cesare Tinelli

Increasingly, the world's data lives in the cloud. Cesare Tinelli, professor of computer science, is making sure it all works smoothly and securely.  Read more . . .

DNA strand

Anna Malkova and PhD student Lipeng Liu unravel DNA repair mechanism, publish findings in "Nature"

The study was funded by the NIH, and employed a revolutionary new technique developed by Lipeng.  Read more . . . 

Colin Gordon, University of Iowa

Colin Gordon awarded prestigious NEH Fellowship in support and recognition of his research

Colin, professor of history, will use the fellowship to support the upcoming publication of his long-running work exposing the "architecture of segregation" in St. Louis and other American cities. Read more . . .  

Juno spacecraft

NASA extends Juno mission; UI instrument keeps uncovering Jupiter's secrets

Bill Kurth, Department of Physics and Astronomy researcher, and his colleagues will continue to receive data from the "gas planet" for up to 4 more years. Read more . . .

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