Many of you are aware of federal investigations into the activities of some NIH funded researchers at institutions across the United States, and related arrests, indictments, and investigations at Harvard, Emory University, the University of Kansas, and other institutions. While this recent news should in no way be perceived to reflect on the institutional commitment or character of researchers...

Bridge-building isn’t just about making connections, growing relationships, and finding common goals (though it’s all of those things). It’s also about taking action through hard and coordinated work, sweat equity, and a shared vision to close the gap between one thing and another. This spring, the University of Iowa’s Research Development Office (RDO), a unit within the UI Office of the Vice...

Several University of Iowa groups are coming together in February to encourage more undergraduate students to get hands-on experience conducting research and scholarship. Led by the UI Student Government (UISG), the Fall in Love with Research campaign kicks off its weeklong celebration of the university’s commitment to undergraduate research on Monday, Feb. 10. The five-day campaign will feature...

Singer-songwriter and four-time GRAMMY award winner Rosanne Cash will host a Creative Matters event at Hancher Auditorium on the University of Iowa campus at 7 p.m. on Feb. 7. The event is free and open to the public. Cash will be joined on stage by writer A.M. Homes for a conversation about carrying her family’s legacy forward into her own life’s work, her creative process, and more. A question...

Communications expert Melissa Marshall will visit the University of Iowa to lead three workshops for faculty, staff, postdocs, and students, on February 12, 2020. A former faculty member with the Department of Communication Arts and Sciences at Penn State University, Marshall has spent the last decade presenting at Fortune 100 corporations, institutions and universities, to help scientists and...

The Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) is now accepting applications for the spring 2020 Arts & Humanities Initiative (AHI) program. This program encourages leading edge scholarship, creative activities and interdisciplinary research. The deadline for applications is Tuesday, March 3, 2020. The AHI program is open to all UI personnel in the arts and humanities disciplines who are...

From investigating the dark side of the global art market, to launching rockets into space, to discovering new fossil species previously unknown to science, University of Iowa (UI) students are engaged in diverse and ground-breaking research and scholarly activities. Fifty-two of these student researchers are featured in the Dare to Discover downtown banner campaign starting January 1, 2020.

The administrative and regulatory challenges related to university research and scholarship are vast—and grow even more daunting when the work involves international partners. To help answer questions related to international research collaboration—from travel and disclosure requirements to invention reporting and federal regulations—the University of Iowa Division of Sponsored Programs has...

In a joint venture with the Graduate College, the University of Iowa Research Foundation (UIRF), which helps campus inventors and creators protect and commercially license intellectual property (IP), has hired its first-ever post-doctoral student to support the office while acquiring first-hand experience of a potential and unique career path for new scientists. Sarah Sapouckey, who has a Ph.D. in...

The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) has named University of Iowa cystic fibrosis and gene therapy researcher John Engelhardt, PhD, a 2019 Fellow. Engelhardt, who is professor and head of anatomy and cell biology in the UI Carver College of Medicine and director of the UI Center for Gene Therapy, is recognized for his work in developing gene therapies to treat cystic fibrosis (CF). The...