Cross-disciplinary research and scholarship fueled by FY 2018 numbers The University of Iowa had another strong year for projects that will benefit Iowans, the country, and world thanks to an increase in federal funding for research and the number of proposals, grants, and contracts awarded in fiscal year 2018. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) granted UI medical and healthcare researchers...

As part of the Research Development Office’s (RDO) efforts to bring together faculty from across disciplines and grow campus connections in innovative ways, the RDO is hosting a series of speed networking events. The next topic will focus on one of the nation’s great public health crises – mental health and illness. Speed networking (similar to speed dating) is designed to expand a researcher’s...

University of Iowa faculty and staff are invited to register for a daylong grant writing seminar sponsored by the Research Development Office, a unit of the Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development (OVPRED), in collaboration with the Carver College of Medicine Office of Faculty Affairs and Development. The “Writing Winning Grant Proposals” seminar will be led by Dr. John...

A search committee made up of University of Iowa faculty, staff, and students has begun work to find a replacement for Daniel Reed, former vice president for research and economic development, who stepped down last fall and recently was named senior vice president for academic affairs at the University of Utah, effective July 1, 2018.

The University of Iowa Center for Health Effects of Environmental Contamination (CHEEC) has awarded $40,000 in cooperative funding to a team of researchers from the UI, Wake Forest School of Medicine, and University of Maryland College of Behavioral and Social Sciences that is exploring links between certain cancers and environmental factors. The awarded study, led by Paul Romitti from the...

The University of Iowa Center for Health Effects of Environmental Contamination (CHEEC) has awarded $159,929 in seed grants to researchers at the UI and Luther College. Awarded studies will focus on the identification and measurement of harmful algal blooms, viral and bacterial pathogens, and lead. CHEEC supports and conducts environmental health research relating to environmental toxins. Its...

University of Iowa Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development (OVPR&ED) Director Wendy Loney was recently given the 2018 recipient of the UI Human Resources (UIHR) Distinguished Strategic Business Partner Award. One of two major awards given annually by UIHR (the other being the Emerging HR Business Partner Award), it recognizes HR leaders across campus who function as...

John Keller, University of Iowa interim Vice President for Research and Economic Development and Dean of the Graduate College, recently joined a panel of experts to discuss “Investing in the Nation’s Future – A Renewed Commitment to Federal Science Funding.” The event was held May 8 at the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington D.C. and was a response to recent Congressional action to increase...

Liz Crooks, communications coordinator for the University of Iowa Pentacrest Museums (UIPM), will become the museums’ interim director, effective June 5. Crooks will take over the role from Trina Roberts, who is stepping down to take a position as Associate Vice President for Collections at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. John Keller, interim Vice President for Research and...

Liz Crooks, communications coordinator for the University of Iowa Pentacrest Museums (UIPM), will become the museums’ interim director, effective June 5.