Implementation Overview
We aim to position our university at the forefront of research and creative discovery, enhancing the success of our talented collection of scholars, researchers, and artists.
To achieve this, we must build upon our strengths and identify new strategic opportunities. In Year 1, we formed a Strategic Plan Action and Resource Committee (SPARC) team with representation from across the university to evaluate and prioritize existing areas of distinction. Using their findings, we'll be able to strategically invest in enhancing our infrastructure for research and creative discovery. We're also promoting interdisciplinary collaboration, creating teams of researchers from across the university to tackle topics like cancer treatment, water quality, and climate change.
Key Metrics
11
new interdisciplinary research communities
Created through the Jumpstarting Tomorrow Seed Grant Program in FY22 and FY23
4
National Science Foundation CAREER Awards in FY23
Number of winners in FY23 ties a UI record for recipients of this prestigious award for early-career faculty
$ 20M
multi-institutional statewide initiative joined by UI
The initiative leverages the expertise of 16 UI faculty from a range colleges and units to make Iowa a national leader in biomanufacturing
7-Year, $28M
grant to extend research discoveries into rural Iowa
UI Carver College of Medicine was awarded the grant from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences to help address rural health disparities
Highlights and Success
$ 500K
grant from IMLS
To assess effects of public libraries on community resilience
UI researchers contribute to one of Time Magazine’s best inventions of 2023
Multiple University of Iowa researchers helped create and are continuing to work on grants related to NASA’s TEMPO, a real-time air quality measurement tool that Time Magazine named one of its best inventions of 2023.
UI Researchers uncover impact of wildfires on air quality
A recent study by UI researchers reveals wildfires have erased two decades’ worth of air quality gains in western US, leading to an increase in premature deaths in fire-prone and downwind regions.
College of Public Health to house new climate research center
The UI College of Public Health will house a new climate research center focused on enhancing climate resiliency in Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska for tribal nations and women who own farmland.
More Stories
Column One
- Becoming a global leader in oral cavity cancer research
- New Center for Hydrologic Development
- Helping cells seek and destroy cancer
- Inventing new tools for radiation treatment for cancer
- Record number of young investigators secure prestigious funding
- CLAS smashes research funding records
- CCOM researchers featured in multiple top-tier journals
Column 2
- Faculty pursue interdisciplinary, community-engaged scholarship through Seeding Excellence Initiative
- UI faculty receive $1.7 million grant to study social media and national security
- Promoting collaborative, interdisciplinary research communities with pilot grants
- Pioneering multi-disciplinary collaboration between a neurologist, a breastfeeding expert, and a nutritional scientist
- Helping Iowa become a leader in biomanufacturing
- Office of Performing Arts and Engagement creates partnerships to drive student-driven productions
- UI Museum of Natural History is muse for MFA grad student
- Edge of Space Academy provides hands-on learning experiences and guided mentorship
- Research ambitions yield big rewards
- Iowa Center for Research by Undergraduates becomes the Office of Undergraduate Research