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. We're strategically investing 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, space exploration, and behavioral health.
Key Metrics
22 %
external funding increase
External funding to support research, scholarship, and creative activities at Iowa increased 22% in FY24
1,700 +
UI students engaged by Hancher visiting artists
Hancher Auditorium and the Office of Performing Arts and Engagement connect world-class performers with current students for high-impact educational experiences
$ 1.5M
award to build advanced space equipment
NASA funding will allow Iowa to purchase state-of-the-art equipment needed to build instruments for future missions
$5.87M
grant funding connected to Jumpstarting Tomorrow
Eight grants totaling $5.87M have been earned by interdisciplinary research teams created by the P3 project
Highlights and Success
79
grant proposals supported
By the P3 funded Iowa Health Data Resource
Iowa Engineering turns P3 seed funding into $9.4M in NASA grants
The University of Iowa’s P3 grant program has had a transformative impact on Earth observation research in the College of Engineering, leading to faculty hires, new graduate students, critical infrastructure, and external funding, including nearly $10 million in recent NASA awards.
Facilities upgrades to research spaces
The University of Iowa is undertaking significant facilities projects to enhance research, scholarship, and creative activities. The new Health Sciences Academic Building is progressing on schedule, and upcoming renovations include transforming the Old Museum of Art Building and an addition to the Iowa Advanced Technology Laboratories.
Six interdisciplinary projects secure OVPR seed funding
The Research Development Office recently granted six $47,000 awards as part of the P3-funded Seeding Excellence Initiative. The funding will support a range of radiochemistry projects that seek to improve human health.
More Stories
Column One
Enhancing Infrastructure
- $8.2M investment in University of Iowa laboratory space
- UI Department of Dance to relocate to renovated building
- New Health Sciences Academic Building builds on strengths, supports collaboration
- Innovating research by providing secure access to health data
- College of Public Health to house new climate research center
- RDO's external grant review program helps faculty polish successful $3M grant submission
- UI seeks permission to plan new hydroscience research building to grow program
- Iowa lands $1.5 million award to build advanced space equipment
- UI researchers open hub in Cedar Rapids
Building Upon Strengths
- 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
- UI researchers contribute to one of Time Magazine's best inventions of 2023
- Researchers develop new tool to study how TMS affects the brain
- Tippie professor leads study to optimize delivery drivers’ time
- Kochanska receives $3.2 million NIH grant for research on the impact of parent–child relationships on the social-emotional development of children
- Revolutionizing cancer care with Theranostics
- Dentistry ranked 12th nationally in external grant funding
- UI's researchers join Children's Brain Tumor Network
- Four CLAS faculty researchers secure prestigious early career awards
- Research funding to UI increases, topping $680M
- OVPR Early Career Scholar awarded $1.9M NIH grant to study eye disease
- UI identifies distinctive collaborative opportunities
- UI receives $8.8M in funding to develop new treatment for ovarian cancer
Column 2
Interdisciplinary Collaboration
- 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
- UI Researchers uncover impact of wildfires on air quality
- Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing secures T32 training grant
- Kennelty, Casteel awarded $17.9M for hypertension study
- UI spearheads $6M multistate NSF grant to help Midwest agricultural communities better manage extreme weather
- UI launches Implementation Science Center to translate research into practice
- UI announces new Center for Social Science Innovation
Student Research and Creative Work
- 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
- Iowa engineering students collect data to help detect wildfires
- Fierce marks significant achievement in performing arts collaboration at Iowa
- UI dancers, engineers explore human-tech connections at Dance Gala 2024