Although Forbes has named Iowa one of the best places in the nation to do business, the Small Business Administration (SBA) and Bloomberg News said in 2014 that African Americans and women in the state still struggle to succeed in business here. To help turn the tide, the University of Iowa and UI Partners, part of the UI Office of Research and Economic Development, are sponsoring an Untraditional...

The University of Iowa Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development has launched a pilot seed grant program to encourage researchers to use the Central Microscopy Research Facility (CMRF) to help secure further external funding. Established in 1973 and located in the Eckstein Medical Research Facility, the CMRF provides instrumentation and technical assistance to research...

Faculty, staff and students of public or private colleges or universities in Iowa, and researchers and educators affiliated with Iowa state agencies may apply for seed grants from the University of Iowa Center for Health Effects of Environmental Contamination. The application deadline is January 4. Funding emphasis is on original pilot studies leading to innovative lines of environmental and...

The Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development (OVPRED) is accepting applications to the FY2016 Internal Funding Initiatives. These programs encourage leading edge scholarship, creative activities and interdisciplinary research. The next application deadline is 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, December 15, 2015.

Studies of the early universe show that 5 percent of all mass and energy should be in normal matter—that is, the visible stuff of the universe, composed of protons and neutrons.

All infants learn language, but they don’t all learn at the same pace. University of Iowa psychology professor Julie Gros-Louis recently received a $230,381 grant from the National Science Foundation to study the prelinguistic interactions between infants and their caregivers, and how these interactions lead to word learning and language development.

UI Research Park company SantosHuman, Inc. was recently featured in the April 2015 edition of The Ergonomist, a monthly magazine by Chartered Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors. The magazine features individuals and companies in fields related to ergonomics and human factors.

Science fiction lately has been dominated by postapocalyptic, dystopian futures: environmental desolation, runaway nanotechnology, AI overlords, genetic discrimination, and the death of privacy. When did our utopian dreams stagger into an alleyway, drunk on hubris, only to be mugged by our diminished expectations?

The University of Iowa Office of Research and Economic Development will host a lecture by Israeli author Etgar Keret at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 22 in Room 240 of Art Building West as part of the Creative Matters lecture series in collaboration with the UI Arts Advancement Committee.

University of Iowa faculty, staff, and students are invited to join Daniel Reed, Vice President for Research & Economic Development, at the second annual State of Research address.