News

The Office of the Vice President for Research emails a monthly e-newsletter with highlights of its activities
in support of research and scholarship across the University of Iowa campus. To subscribe, please visit this link.

 

Dare to Discover banner students

UI student researchers persevere despite pandemic challenges

Thursday, January 21, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted and reshaped many aspects of our lives, but it hasn’t stopped University of Iowa (UI) students from exploring some of life’s most interesting questions through research, scholarship, and creative activity.
dance gala 2.jpg

Arts and Humanities Initiative (AHI) proposals are due March 2

Tuesday, January 19, 2021
The Office of the Vice President for Research is now accepting applications for the spring 2021 Arts & Humanities Initiative (AHI) program. This program encourages leading edge scholarship, creative activities and interdisciplinary research. The application deadline is Tuesday, March 2, 2021. Eligibility At the time of application, all UI personnel in the arts and humanities disciplines who are...
Christopher Ahern

UI agreement with Tevard Biosciences to advance therapies for genetic forms of epilepsy

Thursday, December 17, 2020
Research on faulty genetic material by University of Iowa (UI) Carver College of Medicine professor Christopher Ahern recently was licensed by Tevard Biosciences, a company that is seeking to treat certain forms of epilepsy. However, the innovative UI treatment approach being developed by Tevard holds the promise of becoming a platform with medical applications far beyond those for epilepsy. The...
_dsc2873

Nominations sought for leading researchers, scholars, and mentors

Thursday, December 3, 2020
The University of Iowa Office of the Vice President for Research is seeking award nominations of faculty, staff, and students engaged in outstanding research and scholarship, safety, and mentorship. Nominations for OVPR’s annual Discovery and Innovation Awards, which will be announced in April and celebrated virtually next spring, are due Feb. 2. This year OVPR has added an award to recognize...
screen_shot_2020-11-12_at_10.01.46_am.png

Gazette gives State Hygienic Lab its Driver business award

Thursday, November 12, 2020
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. The Driver award is given to an individual or institution that has...
Kevin Legge

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

Monday, November 2, 2020
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. On Thursday, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds announced she has set aside $2 million in Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (or CARES) Act funding to...
coronavirusball_red_cdchighrez.png

Resource: Research and COVID-19

Thursday, October 29, 2020
The University of Iowa Office of the Vice President for Research manages a Website to help guide faculty, staff, and student researchers, scholars, and creative artists as they work during the pandemic..
Ali Milani undergraduate researcher

Fall Undergraduate Research Festival goes virtual

Tuesday, October 20, 2020
The annual festival, hosted by the Iowa Center for Research by Undergraduates (ICRU,) will be held in short sessions via Zoom during the week of November 9-13, 2020. “Despite the challenges of the fall 2020 semester, University of Iowa undergraduates have collaborated with faculty mentors to participate in research all over campus, and remotely, that complements their academic studies and develops...

Hygienic Lab ambassador plays critical role in serving Iowa during COVID-19

Friday, October 16, 2020
If the State Hygienic Laboratory’s Coralville operation is headquarters in Iowa’s war on COVID-19, Connie Henderson is the lab’s forward scout and envoy to clinics across the state. Henderson, a retired laboratory manager at Mary Greeley Medical Center in Ames, has served as an SHL Ambassador since 2019, providing expert guidance to the lab, helping SHL better connect with and meet the needs of...

Video of town hall on international engagement and foreign influence available online

Wednesday, October 14, 2020
A video and PowerPoint from the Office of the Vice President for Research’s (OVPR) Oct. 12 International Engagement (Foreign Influence in Research) Town Hall is now available online. Links to the materials may be found on the Division of Sponsored Programs’ (DSP) Website at https://dsp.research.uiowa.edu/international-engagement#slide. The event was held in response to growing national concerns...