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Ana Rodríguez-Rodríguez helping Spain reexamine its Golden Age
Friday, June 19, 2020
Ana M. Rodríguez-Rodríguez is playing a prominent role in bringing to light the work and legacy of women writers during Spain's "Golden Age," a period of flourishing in arts and literature in Spain in the 16th and 17th centuries. The associate professor of Spanish literature in the University of Iowa Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and interim chair of the Department of French and Italian...
McMillan named a Fellow of the Institute of Sacred Music at Yale University
Friday, June 19, 2020
Assistant Professor Christopher-Rasheem McMillan of the Departments of Dance and Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies, has been appointed a Fellow of the Institute of Sacred Music at Yale University. McMillan's Yale project will take two interdependent approaches: completion of a book titled Performance Criticism: Scripture, Sex, and the Sacred, and an evening-length performance called Sacred/...
Perlman named to Mark Stinski Chair in Virology
Friday, June 19, 2020
Stanley Perlman, physician and professor of microbiology and immunology in the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, has been appointed to the Mark Stinski Chair in Virology. The Stinski Chair was created in 2010 as the endowed chair in immunology. In 2015, the chair was named after Stinski, who developed and commercialized the cytomegalovirus promoter, a tool to...
Computer Science researcher Zubair Shafiq part of $10 million NSF cybersecurity grant
Friday, June 19, 2020
The National Science Foundation announced that University of Iowa Computer Science researcher Zubair Shafiq is part of a team receiving a $10 million grant. The grant is part of NSF's Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program, which supports cybersecurity research. Shafiq's team's project is titled "ProperData: Protecting Personal Data Flow on the Internet."
Electrical and Computer Engineering professors receive NSF RAPID grant for novel COVID-19 testing technologies
Tuesday, June 16, 2020
Three Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty members received a National Science Foundation (NSF) RAPID grant titled "RAPID: High-Throughput and Low-Cost Testing of COVID-19 Viruses and Antibodies through Compressed Sensing and Group Testing," to develop a novel high-throughput and low-cost testing technology that has great potential of breaking the testing bottleneck of the COVID-19 pandemic...
Christopher Harris selected as 2020-21 Radcliffe Institute Fellow at Harvard University
Tuesday, June 16, 2020
Christopher Harris has been named a 2020–2021 fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, joining an impressive class whose work will span the sciences, social sciences, humanities, and arts. Harris is head of Film and Video Production in the Department of Cinematic Arts. For his Radcliffe project, Harris will continue researching, writing, and re-photographing...
Mark Vander Weg to lead Department of Community and Behavioral Health
Monday, June 15, 2020
Mark Vander Weg has been named the head of the University of Iowa Department of Community and Behavioral Health, effective July 1, 2020. Vander Weg is currently an associate professor of internal medicine at the UI Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine and holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He...
Engineering and public health collaboration leads to NSF RAPID grant on PPE materials which capture and kill pathogens
Tuesday, May 26, 2020
Engineers at the University of Iowa and the University Notre Dame are collaborating with a UI College of Public Health faculty member to develop protective equipment that captures and kills viral pathogens, thereby improving protective equipment performance and reusability during the COVID-19 pandemic.
CCOM gap funding supports 3 medical innovation projects
Monday, May 18, 2020
Three University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine faculty and staff have received gap funding for innovative translational research projects that potentially could lead to new, commercially viable medical devices or technologies.
Researchers, scholars, inventors and mentors recognized
Monday, May 18, 2020
OVPR recognized faculty, staff, and students who stand out for their commitment to discovery, their shepherding of young students, their entrepreneurship, their gifts as research communicators, and their support of the campus research enterprise with the office's annual Celebrating Excellence Awards.
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