

A long-respected program that helps faculty and research team members develop competitive grant proposals, the Write Winning Grant Proposals seminar (Phase I), will be held on Thursday, October 6, 2022.
The seminar is appropriate for faculty members, postdoctoral researchers and administrative staff who have had some exposure to writing grant applications, either through training / mentoring or personal experience.
Vice President for Research Marty Scholtz has selected Kristy Nabhan-Warren and Aliasger Salem as the associate vice presidents for research. They will begin their new part-time roles on July 1.
The new policy announced by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) places a strong emphasis on the sharing of scientific data in an effort to expedite the translation of research results into knowledge, products, and procedures to improve human health. It will go into effect in January 2023.
The new guidelines apply to all awards that generate scientific data regardless of funding mechanism. This includes grants, subgrants, contracts, subcontracts, and other transaction authority agreements.
The Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) has selected the winners of the 2022 Arts and Humanities (AHI) grants, which support humanities scholarship and work in the creative, visual, and performing arts.
“The AHI program has been supported by OVPR for almost 25 years,” said Marty Scholtz, vice president for research. “It is an important investment in individual and collaborative scholarship in the arts and humanities disciplines, which face a limited landscape of external funding opportunities.”
From the air we breathe, to the water we drink, to the soil that we walk on, staff at the State Hygienic Laboratory (SHL) at the University of Iowa, in partnership with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, have a hand in monitoring the health of Iowa’s precious natural resources.
The Research Development Office (RDO) within the Office of the Vice President for Research has selected four winners of DEI Team Awards and seven winners of DEI Supplemental Awards. The seed grants are $25,000 each.