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
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UI scholars secured support for more than 2,300 projects in FY25
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Mark Simpson-Vos, a senior editor at the University of North Carolina Press, met with 36 UI faculty and graduate students
Highlights and Success
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Involved in the TRACERS project
UI to establish Office of Writing and Communication
The University of Iowa will establish the Office of Writing and Communication to unify, amplify, and expand the university’s rich legacy as a global leader in writing and communication.
Editor-in-Residence program helps faculty craft book proposals
The Obermann Center’s P3-supported Editor-in-Residence program connects faculty and graduate students with a senior editor from a major university press, providing invaluable, behind-the-scenes guidance on how to craft a compelling book proposal and navigate the path to publication.
UI research funding advances health, science, community resilience
In FY25, UI researchers secured more than $533.7 million in funding for research, scholarship, and creative activities, including support for developing cancer treatments and patient care, advancing brain science and mental health, and building healthier and more resilient Iowa communities.
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
- Facilities upgrades to research spaces
- Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing secures $1M from the IEDA
- UI Pharmaceuticals expands to advance innovative therapies
- Cancer Research Building will pave way for significant discoveries at UI
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
- Iowa Engineering turns P3 seed funding into $9.4M in NASA grants
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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
- Six interdisciplinary projects secure OVPR seed funding
- UI Nurse Innovators Program helps nurses turn workarounds into products for industry
- Faculty projects supported by OVPR's Arts and Humanities Initiative
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
- Undergraduates support TRACERS project with replica model