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November 2020

marissa mueller

Biomedical engineering student named UI’s 22nd Rhodes Scholar

Canadian Iowa student Marissa Mueller has become the UI’s 22nd Rhodes Scholar.
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moala keshei

3MT competition helps graduate students more effectively share their research

Communicating the value of a graduate students’ research is more important than ever. The Graduate College’s Three Minute Thesis competition helps them share their work more broadly with people who aren’t experts in the field.
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Gazette Business Awards

Gazette gives State Hygienic Lab its Driver business award

While it’s not, technically, a business, Iowa’s State Hygienic Lab (SHL) has demonstrated incredible innovation and dedication since it became ground zero for most of Iowa’s COVID-19 testing.

That’s why SHL and Director Mike Pentella were recently given the Driver award as part of the sixth annual Gazette Business Awards.

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Understanding suicide as a social justice issue

In a new article published in the Journal of Prevention and Health Promotion, Counseling Psychology Professor Emeritus John Westefeld of the University of Iowa College of Education, describes how we can begin to understand suicide and suicide prevention as a social justice issue.
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Kevin Legge

UI researchers team up with ISU to develop nanovaccine for COVID-19

With federal funding from the Iowa Governor’s Office, researchers at the University of Iowa are working to help create a nanovaccine that would protect against the virus that causes COVID-19 and be administered via nasal spray rather than a needle.

  • Read more about UI researchers team up with ISU to develop nanovaccine for COVID-19

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