Peng Jiang, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, was awarded a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation, which includes a $500,000 grant to fund his research.

E Cram, associate professor with joint appointments in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, received the Karl Wallace Memorial Award. The award will allow Cram to continue their research on the Johnson County Historic Poor Farm.

Continuing an upward trend of University of Iowa faculty securing prestigious early-career grants, four investigators from the Departments of Physics and Astronomy and Computer Science have been awarded notable grant awards to advance their careers.

Kenneth Tse, professor of saxophone in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences’ School of Music, has been named a 2024 University of Iowa Distinguished Chair.

NASA awarded Assistant Professor Casey DeRoo a grant for research related to Rapid Electron Beam Lithography Patterning for Customized Reflection Gratings.

CLAS researchers provided a progress report on instruments slated for $115 million TRACERS mission.

Julianna Pacheco, a professor in the Department of Political Science, received funding from County Health Rankings and Roadmaps for her research on political and community power in Latino communities.

NASA has awarded Professor Greg Howes a $525,311 grant to study the plasma physics of magnetic reconnection in turbulent solar wind.

Grazyna Kochanska, a professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, was awarded a $3.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to further her research on early parent-child relationships.

Professor Carrie Figdor’s lecture is one of six in series, which is free to watch online. Figdor discusses the different ways humanity thinks about the mind and its relation to the brain.