A group of 20 University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine faculty members will be honored for their work as scientists, scholars, and educators at the fourth annual Celebration of Excellence in Research, Scholarship, Teaching, and Service.

Clark Stanford, dean of the UI College of Dentistry and Dental Clinics, was elected Supreme Chapter President of Omicron Kappa Upsilon (OKU), National Honor Dental Society. Stanford will serve a one-year term as president before moving to immediate past president. OKU is a prestigious honor dental society in which only the top 12% of the dental school graduating class is selected for membership.

Three College of Liberal Arts and Sciences faculty members recently received awards to support their respective research projects during the next academic year. Jenna Supp-Montgomerie, religious studies and communication studies; Stephanie Miracle, dance; and Jonathan Wilcox, English each received a Developmental Studies Hybridoma Bank (DSHB) Humanities Scholar Award.

NASA's Roman Technology Fellowship will supply $500,000 over two years to support their research in space-based instrumentation.

The Dental Student Research Program at Iowa Dentistry has a long and venerable tradition of teaching students to conduct and think critically about research. Fourth-year dental student Colton Curtis exemplifies these qualities in his work investigating methods to improve dry mouth and oral health in older populations with dentures.

More than 40 years on and after thousands of procedures, Bruce Gantz, MD, vividly remembers how his first patient reacted when she received her cochlear implant in the early 1980s just as these devices were being introduced in the U.S.

The University of Iowa Distinguished Chair award is having a positive impact on some of the university's most accomplished faculty members by providing them with the freedom to advance teaching, research, and public service in new and innovative ways.

Mathematics professor Palle Jorgensen hopes the American Mathematical Society fellowship will help him be a better researcher and mentor to his students.

Jenna Supp-Montgomerie, Stephanie Miracle, and Jonathan Wilcox will advance their unique research projects with the funding.

Justin Torres, a 2010 graduate of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, won the 2023 National Book Award for Fiction at the 74th National Book Awards Ceremony & Benefit Dinner in New York City on Nov. 15.