Rishab Nithyanand, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, will tackle the enforcement of consumer privacy regulations with the help of a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The award, the NSF’s most prestigious award in support of early-career faculty, includes a five-year grant for $633,023. Nithyanand and his team will develop a variety of computational tools to help enforcement agencies perform large-scale audits to determine if organizations are complying with consumer privacy regulations.

Kirkwood Community College and the University of Iowa are partnering to offer a four-year Medical Laboratory Science (MLS) Bachelor of Science degree, beginning this fall. The MLS program will help address a major workforce shortage of medical laboratory scientists.

M. Lindell Joseph, University of Iowa College of Nursing clinical professor, has been selected as the next editor-in-chief of "Nurse Leader," the journal of the American Organization for Nursing Leadership. She will begin the position in January 2025.

Beth Walker, associate professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, is leading a project focused on training graduate students in audiology and speech-language pathology on how to work with and treat children with disabilities who come from multicultural backgrounds.

Professor Jasper Halekas has been selected to serve on the National Academies of Sciences' Panel on Atmospheric Science and Space Physics, which will identify atmospheric science and space physics objectives for human exploration of the surface of Mars.

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.