Articles from 2025

Bri Swopes

CLAS HHP faculty member honored with Visionary Volunteer Award for Iowa Disability Film Festival

Bri Swope, associate professor of instruction in the Department of Health and Human Physiology, received recognition for expanding access and awareness through film.
Ava Reed

CLAS physics and astronomy department partners with engineering student to build 3D Lego model of TRACERS satellites

Monday, March 10, 2025
Ava Reed, a student in the College of Engineering, spent her summer designing and constructing the mini replica of the NASA funded satellite mission.
CSD graduate students presenting

CLAS CSD speech-language pathology graduate students present to paratransit drivers

The students, all members of clinical professor Krista Davidson’s augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) community outreach group, presented to local paratransit drivers.
Guanpeng Li

CLAS computer science faculty member receives NSF grant to improve safety of autonomous vehicles

Monday, March 10, 2025
Guanpeng Li, an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, received a $310,077 National Science Foundation grant which focuses on ensuring autonomous vehicle systems are dependable and safe.
CSD faculty members meet with students

CLAS CSD initiative offers unique research opportunities for undergraduates

The program will provide direct laboratory experience throughout 2025 for six undergraduate students studying speech and hearing science.
Shaun Vecera

CLAS PBS faculty members receives Lola Lopes Award

The 2025 Lola Lopes Award for Undergraduate Student Advocacy has been awarded to Shaun Vecera, director of the University of Iowa Honors Program and professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences.
Birds fly inside of the UI Museum of Natural History’s rare Laysan Island cyclorama

Donors Rally to Restore University of Iowa Museum’s Historic Exhibit

Monday, March 3, 2025
A campaign to preserve a 111-year-old cyclorama at the UI Museum of Natural History raises more than $500,000, including from supporters on One Day for Iowa.
Schaeffer Hall in the winter

CLAS political science faculty members investigate the link between the Peruvian government’s response to natural disasters and political violence

Monday, March 3, 2025
Sara Mitchell and Elise Pizzi, professor and associate professor, respectively, in the Department of Political Science and researcher affiliates in the Center for Social Science Innovation (CSSI), have published a study that analyzes how the Peruvian government’s response to natural disasters influenced political violence in the country.
student walking to Old Cap in evening light

CLAS HHP faculty member explains the importance of sleep when it comes to physical performance

Monday, March 3, 2025
Aaron Schneider, assistant professor of health and human physiology in the University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, explains how sleep can optimize your physical performance and the best way to prioritize quality sleep over quantity.
Schaeffer Hall in the winter

Downtown banners feature CLAS student and postdoc research and creative activity

The 2025 Dare to Discover banner campaign highlights 80 undergraduate, graduate student, and postdoctoral scholars who are engaged in promising research, scholarship, and creative activities that range from unlocking the molecular mechanisms of disease to exploring the mysteries of space.