The deadline has been extended to receive nominations for the Discovery and Innovation Awards, which honor University of Iowa faculty, staff and student research, innovation, mentorship and startup success.

Nominations are open for University of Iowa faculty, staff, and student researchers, creators, mentors, and entrepreneurs for the UI’s annual Discovery & Innovation Awards Ceremony, which will be held in April 2017.

While Iowa is far from the eastern seaboard where Hurricane Matthew recently raged, people up and down the Atlantic coast have Daniel Reed to thank, in part, for the prediction models of both the hurricane path and storm surge levels. In 2004, Reed, University of Iowa Vice President for Research and Economic Development, brought together academics from multiple disciplines, government and industry...

All new and early-career faculty are invited to join the Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development (OVPR&ED) for the second meeting of a yearlong lunch series to learn about running a successful and compliant research program at the University of Iowa. The topic will be “Securing external and internal funding for research” and will be held 11:30am-1:00pm, Monday, Oct. 17...

Can you describe what you do at work in 90 seconds – with a camera in your face? This summer, nine faculty members at the University of Iowa learned to do just that by participating in a one-and-a-half day media training workshop to facilitate better communication about their research to journalists and the public. Conducted annually, the Communicating Ideas Workshop training takes the research...

SantosHuman, Inc., a spinoff company that grew out of ongoing research at the University of Iowa, recently announced the release of a new plug-in module to its line of virtual human modeling and simulation software. Santos® Arm’s Force Field provides SantosHuman’s clients with the only existing way to access the most accurate, validated method to predict manual arm strength available today.

At the Celebrating Excellence: Discovery and Innovation Awards Ceremony sponsored by the Office of Research and Economic Development, Richard Tyler Priest won the Distinguished Achievement in Publicly Engaged Research Award—and for good reason.

Communicating complex scientific research to a lay audience is an important skill for researchers—but it doesn’t always come naturally.

The Latham Science Engagement Initiative is currently accepting applications for 2016-2017 Latham Fellows.

John F. Doershuk, Ph.D., is the State Archaeologist and Director of the University of Iowa Office of the State Archaeologist (OSA), as well as an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology. In this Q&A he offers a glimpse into OSA, part of the UI Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development—what it is, what it does, and why it matters. Tell us a little...

The Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development held its “Celebrating Excellence: Discovery and Innovation Awards Ceremony” on Wednesday, April 13. The annual event (photos of which may be found here) recognizes faculty, staff, postdoctoral scholars/fellows, graduate students, undergraduate students and mentors who have demonstrated outstanding accomplishments to research in...

Since becoming the University of Iowa’s Vice President for Research and Economic Development three years ago, Dan Reed has encouraged faculty to pursue more high-risk, high-reward research and scholarship proposals, both individually and in collaborative groups Reed says the intense competition for research funding and declining proposal success rates for conventional proposals means the time has...