Kelly Kadera and Sara Mitchell, faculty members in the Department of Political Science, host workshops that support, mentor and teach women in political science. A recent NSF grant will allow them to continue this work for another four years.

Ali Hval, assistant professor of instruction in the School of Art, Art History, and Design, is no stranger to the Iowa City art scene and was recently awarded the Iowa Artist Fellowship grant of $10,000.

The University of Iowa has received nearly $1.7 million from NASA to fund the OCHRE student-led sounding rocket mission that will study cusp dynamics in the Earth’s magnetosphere and help train the next generation of space physicists and instrumentalists.

Scott Shaw, professor in the Department of Chemistry, and a team of researchers across five universities seek to understand how environmental film forms on solid surfaces and how materials can be designed to last longer.

Valerie Payré, EES assistant professor, has been granted a $492,599 grant from NASA to analyze the geologic makeup of Mars with hopes of better understanding our planet’s history.

The National Science Foundation has awarded a grant to Prof. Wayne Polyzou that will support a research collaboration with particle physics students in Poland and Ukraine.

The National Science Foundation's most prestigious award in support of early-career faculty, includes a five-year grant for $633,023.

Professor Jane Nachtman has received a $460,000 grant from the Fermi Research Alliance to work on neutrino detectors as part of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) at Fermilab.

Beth Walker, associate professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, and her colleagues, received a grant from the Department of Education to provide training to graduate students treating children from diverse backgrounds who need speech and hearing services.