The University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is a powerhouse of research, discovery, and creativity. That is reflected in the grants our faculty receive as they work to advance scholarship in their areas of study.

Help congratulate the following faculty, staff, and students on their recent research grant awards. 

March 

• Ned Bowden, Department of Chemistry, new contract 
  Synthesis of dithiophosphates 2024, sponsored by Harvest Increase Agriculture, LLC, $27,350 

• Andrew Forbes, Department of Biology, new grant 
  Collaborative Research: Discovering eukaryotic symbionts across diverse insect communities, sponsored by US National Science Foundation, $290,025 

• John Freeman, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences; Krystal Parker, Department of Psychiatry, new grant 
  Roles of Descending Forebrain Pathways to the Cerebellum in Behavioral Timing, sponsored by NIH, $413,479 

• Keri Hoadley, Department of Physics and Astronomy, new grant 
  Advancing & Qualifying UV Space Technology & Instrumentation, sponsored by US National Aeronautics & Space Administration, $337,600 

• Allison Jaynes, Department of Physics and Astronomy, new contract-subgrant 
  Space Weather Operational Readiness Development (SWORD) Center, sponsored by University of Colorado Boulder (prime sponsor: US National Aeronautics & Space Administration), $79,772 

• Nathaniel Jenkins, Department of Health and Human Physiology; Emily Thomas, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, new contract 
  VA IPA for Nathaniel Jenkins FY24, sponsored by US Department of Veterans Affairs, $16,204 

• Sarah Minor, Department of English, new grant 
  Productive Frictions: A Transatlantic Program Writing for New Media in Paris-Saint-Denis and Iowa City (FACE Transatlantic Mobility Program), sponsored by Albertine Foundation, $14,000 

• Garrett Morris, Department of Computer Science, new grant 
  SHF: SMALL: A New Semantics for Type-Level Programming in Haskell, sponsored by US National Science Foundation, $599,291 

• Julianna Pacheco, Department of Political Science, new contract-subgrant 
  Measuring Political Power for Latino Communities, sponsored by University of Wisconsin-Population Health Institute (prime sponsor: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation), $50,000 

• Ravitej Uppu, Department of Physics and Astronomy, new grant  
  CAREER: Integrated sources of multiphoton entanglement for enabling quantum interconnects, sponsored by US National Science Foundation, $447,097 

February 

• Matthew Dannenberg, Department of Geographic and Sustainability Sciences; new grant 
  Acquiring plant growth chambers for research and teaching in ecology and plant science, sponsored by Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust, $348,015 

• Casey DeRoo, Department of Physics and Astronomy, new grant 
  Rapid EBL Patterning for Customized Reflection Gratings, sponsored by US National Aeronautics & Space Administration, $293,393 

• Laurel Farrin, School of Art and Art History, new grant 
  Nancy B Negley Artists Residency Program-2024 Artists Residency Program, sponsored by Maison Dora Maar, $2,500 

• Jennifer Glanville, Department of Sociology and Criminology; Iulian Vamanu, School of Library and Information Sciences; Kara Logsden, School of Library and Information Sciences; Haifeng Qian, School of Planning and Public Affairs; Lucie Alice Laurian, School of Planning and Public Affairs; Phuong Nguyen, School of Planning and Public Affairs, new grant 
  Libraries as Resilience Hubs: Assessing Social Impacts and Learning from Best Practices, sponsored by US National Foundation on the Arts & the Humanities, Institute of Museum & Library Services, $494,444 

• Gregory Howes, Department of Physics and Astronomy, new grant 
  Identifying Particle Energization Mechanisms in Magnetic Reconnection through their Velocity-Space Signatures, sponsored by US National Aeronautics & Space Administration, $439,743 

• Sarit Smolikove, Department of Biology, new grant 
  Mechanisms for the propagation of R-loop induced chromosomal fragments in the germline, sponsored by US National Science Foundation, $550,000 

• Emily Thomas, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, new contract 
  VA IPA for Emily Thomas FY24, sponsored by US Department of Veterans Affairs, Iowa City Veterans Affairs Medical Center, $146,226 

• Alexa Zimbelman, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, new grant  
  Competing basolateral amygdala inputs to the infralimbic and prelimbic cortices in cocaine-seeking behavior, sponsored by NIH, $103,859 

January 

• Renee Cole, Department of Chemistry, new grant  
  Increasing Capacity to Support Equitable and Inclusive Learning Environments for Introductory-level STEM Students across the LCC2 Learning Community, University of Alaska-Anchorage (prime sponsor: Howard Hughes Medical Institute), $73,100 

• Gregory Howes, Department of Physics and Astronomy, new grant 
  Determining How Kinetic Instabilities Affect Particle Energization in Collisionless Shocks, sponsored by US National Aeronautics and Space Administration, $60,000 

• Peng Jiang, Department of Computer Science, new grant  
  CAREER: Compiler and Runtime Support for Sampled Sparse Computations on Heterogeneous Systems, sponsored by US National Science Foundation, $269,174 

• Kate Magsamen-Conrad, Department of Communication Studies, new contract-subgrant 
  Free Time 4 Wellness, sponsored by Columbia University (prime sponsor: NIH), $45,633 

• David Miles, Department of Physics and Astronomy, new contract-subgrant 
  MAGSTAR: Multi-Mission MAGnetometer Denoising and Sensor Resiliency through STatistical Decomposition and ARtificial Intelligence, sponsored by University of Maryland (prime sponsor: US National Aeronautics & Space Administration), $33,947 

• Mark Reagan, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, new contract-subgrant 
  U, Th, Ra, and Fe isotopic constraints on the history of hydrothermal alteration and the sources of fluids recovered during IODP Expedition 399, sponsored by Trustees of Columbia University (prime sponsor: US National Science Foundation), $13,822 

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