The University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is a powerhouse of research, discovery, and creativity. That is reflected in the grants our faculty receive as they work to advance scholarship in their areas of study. Help congratulate the following faculty, staff, and students on their recent research grant awards. 

November

  • Mili Kuruvilla-Dugdale, associate professor, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders; New Grant, Research (Basic), Exploring Psychophysical Scaling for Auditory-Perceptual Evaluation of Dysarthria, sponsored by American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation - $25,000
  • Pere Miro Ramirez, associate professor, Department of Chemistry; New Contract-Subgrant, Research (Basic), Transforming Critical Materials Separations through Metal-Oxo Cluster Chemistry., sponsored by Georgetown University (prime sponsor: US Department of Energy) - $135,404
  • David Nataf, assistant professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy; New Contract-Subgrant, Research (Basic), Correcting for the Effects of Interstellar Extinction Toward the Roman Galactic Exoplanet Survey Fields, sponsored by Space Telescope Science Institute (prime sponsor: US National Aeronautics & Space Administration) - $55,311
  • David Nataf, assistant professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy; New Contract-Subgrant, Research (Basic), Determination of the Star-by-Star Elemental Abundance Trends in Nearby Galaxies: Are the Disks Bimodal?, sponsored by Space Telescope Science Institute (prime sponsor: US National Aeronautics & Space Administration) - $116,712
  • Naomi Rodgers, assistant professor, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders; New Grant, Research (Basic), Developing and Validating a Self-Report Assessment to Measure Stutter-Affirming Outcomes, sponsored by American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation - $35,000
  • Cesare Tinelli, professor, Garrett Morris, assistant professor, and Katherine Kosaian, assistant professor, Department of Computer Science; New Grant, Conference Grant, Conference: 2024 Formal Methods in the Field PI Meeting, sponsored by US National Science Foundation - $99,893
  • Tina Tootle, departmental executive officer, and Michael Dailey, associate professor, Department of Biology; New Grant, Equipment, Acquisition of DIVE Multi-Photon Laser System, sponsored by Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust - $595,957
  • Elizabeth Walker, associate professor, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders; New Grant, Research (Basic), Children's Hearing Aid Access under Medicaid Programs (CHAAMP), sponsored by American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation - $35,000
  • Yu-Hsiang Wu, professor, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders; New Contract, Research (Basic), Dyadic - Ecological momentary assessments (EMA) Project, sponsored by Sivantos GmbH on behalf of WS Audiology, a Sivantos affiliate - $241,764

October

  • Inyong Choi, associate professor, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders; New Contract, Fellowship - Faculty, Global Convergent Research on Healthcare Solutions to Overcome Hearing Loss and Dementia, sponsored by Korean Institute of Science and Technology (prime sponsor: National Research Foundation of Korea) - $21,555
  • Casey DeRoo, associate professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy; New Grant, Research (Basic), Evaluation of Commercial CMOS Sensors for a HaloSat Follow-on, sponsored by US National Aeronautics & Space Administration, Marshall Space Flight Center - $24,225
  • Michael Flatte, professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy; New Grant, Research (Basic), Optospintronic control of spin qubits in nuclear spin free hosts, sponsored by US Department of Defense, Department of the Air Force, Air Force Office of Scientific Research - $350,000
  • Tori Forbes, professor, Department of Chemistry; and Korey Carter, assistant professor, Department of Chemistry; New Grant, Research (Basic), Identification of Free Radical Based Spectroscopic Signatures in Nuclear Materials Using Electron Paramagnetic Resonance and Resonance Raman Spectroscopies, sponsored by US Department of Homeland Security - $900,000
  • Mary Hall Reno, professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy; New Contract-Subgrant, Research (Basic), POEMMA-Balloon with Radio (PBR), sponsored by Columbia University (prime sponsor: US National Aeronautics & Space Administration) - $127,110
  • Allison Jaynes, associate professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy; New Grant, Research (Career Development), The Effect of Substorm Injections on Pulsating Aurora Energy Spectra, sponsored by US National Aeronautics & Space Administration - $50,000
  • Nathaniel Jenkins, associate professor, Department of Health and Human Physiology; New Grant, Training Program, Developing Proficiency in the Measurement of MSNA in Humans: 2024 APS RCEA, sponsored by American Physiological Society - $14,361
  • Yasar Onel, professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy; New Grant, Fellowship/Scholarship - Graduate, CMS Outer Tracker Phase 2 Upgrade, sponsored by Universities Research Association, Inc. - $10,000
  • John Prineas, professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy; New Contract-Subcontract, Research (Basic), Megapixel infrared Scene Projector Based on Dual Band Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Array, sponsored by Sivananthan Laboratories (prime sponsor: US Department of Defense, Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research) - $40,951
  • Elizabeth Stone, professor, Department of Chemistry; New Contract-Subgrant, Research (Basic), Building the Capacity to Improve Air Quality in Central Asia Through Source and Source Region Identification with Stakeholder Engagement, sponsored by Duke University (prime sponsor: US Department of State, Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs) - $21,604

September

  • Bhavana Bhat, graduate research assistant, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders; New Grant, Fellowship/Scholarship - Graduate, The role of somatosensory perception in speech sound production and speech motor learning in children with CAS, sponsored by Apraxia Kids - $10,000
  • Matthew Dannenberg, assistant professor, Department of Geographic and Sustainability Sciences; New Grant, Research (Basic), Tree growth legacies of combined soil and atmospheric drought across climatic, plant trait, and morphological gradients in the United States, sponsored by US Department of Energy - $398,756
  • Michael Flatte, professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, and Durga Paudyal, research scientist/engineer, Department of Physics and Astronomy; New Contract-Subgrant, Research (Basic), Center for Energy Efficient Magnonics (CEEM), sponsored by Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (prime sponsor: US Department of Energy) - $110,000
  • Nathaniel Jenkins, associate professor, Department of Health and Human Physiology; New Grant, Research (Basic), Adverse Childhood Experiences and Premature Vascular Aging in Humans: The Role SIRT1, sponsored by American Heart Association - $99,193
  • Ryan Kinser, departmental executive officer, Department of Mathematics, Xiaoyi Zhang, professor, Department of Mathematics, Isabel Darcy, associate professor, Department of Mathematics, and Cynthia Farthing, associate professor of instruction, Department of Mathematics; New Grant, Training Program, Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need for Mathematics at The University of Iowa, sponsored by US Department of Education - $672,396
  • Vitor Lira, associate professor, Department of Health and Human Physiology; New Grant, Research (Basic), Role of ULK2 in selective protein degradation and protection against sarcopenia, sponsored by NIH - $381,507
  • Nathan Micatka, graduate research assistant, Department of Political Science; New Contract-Subgrant, Research (Basic), Socializing Policy Feedback: The Persistent Effects of Adolescent Policy Program Use on Political Behavior in Adulthood, sponsored by American Political Science Association (prime sponsor: US National Science Foundation) - $14,813
  • David Miles, associate professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy; New Contract-Subgrant, Research (Basic), LabOratory for the Behavior of the SloT Region (LOBSTR), sponsored by Montana State University (prime sponsor: US National Aeronautics & Space Administration) - $26,822
  • Pere Miro Ramirez, associate professor, Department of Chemistry; New Grant, Research (Basic), CAREER: Understanding Structure-Function Relationships of Polyoxovanadate-Alkoxide Clusters from a Bottom-Up Perspective, sponsored by US National Science Foundation - $395,289
  • Valerie Payre, assistant professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences; New Contract-Subgrant, Research (Basic), Investigating Compositional, Thermophysical, and Original Variabilities of Ancient Volcanic Materials on Mars, sponsored by Northern Arizona University, Arizona Board of Regents (prime sponsor: US National Aeronautics & Space Administration) - $29,481
  • Sarit Smolikove, professor, Department of Biology; New Contract-Subgrant, Research (Basic), Protection from cosmic radiation, sponsored by Institute for Medical Research, Inc. (prime sponsor: US National Aeronautics & Space Administration) - $65,479
  • Zhiwei Tong, assistant professor, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science; New Grant, Research (Applied), Integrated Frequency and Severity Modeling for Extreme Losses, sponsored by Casualty Actuarial Society - $150,000
  • Florence Williams, assistant professor, Department of Chemistry; New Grant, Research (Basic), A Mechanistic Foundation for the Iron Homeostasis Impacts and Neurotrophic Activity of trans-Banglene, sponsored by NIH - $385,968