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. 

August

  • Zahra Aminzare, associate professor, Department of Mathematics; New Grant, Other, Collective Behavior of Biological Networks, sponsored by Simons Foundation - $42,000
  • Casey DeRoo, associate professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy; New Grant, Research (Basic), University of Iowa--Support for Space Technology Innovation and Education, sponsored by US National Aeronautics & Space Administration, Marshall Space Flight Center - $1,495,000
  • Carolyn Hartley, associate professor, School of Social Work; New Grant, Fellowship - Faculty, Improving Legal and Social Service Responses to Domestic Violence in Kosovo, sponsored by US Department of State, Bureau of Educational & Cultural Affairs, J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board - $43,180
  • Gregory Howes, professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy; New Grant, Research (Basic), Identifying the Physical Mechanisms of Turbulent Dissipation in the Inner Heliosphere, sponsored by US National Aeronautics & Space Administration - $733,873
  • Allison Jaynes, associate professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy; New Grant, Research (Basic), TRAcers Student Rocket (TRA-SR), sponsored by US National Aeronautics & Space Administration - $1,692,989
  • Guanpeng Li, assistant professor, Department of Computer Science; New Grant, Research (Basic), Collaborative Research: Elements: MELIOREM: An Integrated Evaluation Cyberinfrastructure towards Safe and Dependable Autonomous Driving Systems, sponsored by US National Science Foundation - $310,077
  • Sara B Mitchell, professor, Department of Political Science; and Kelly Kadera, associate professor, Department of Political Science; New Grant, Research (Basic), SBP: Collaborative Research: Journeys in World Politics A Mentoring Workshop for Junior Women in International Relations, sponsored by US National Science Foundation - $207,685
  • Jodie Plumert, professor, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences; New Grant, Research (Basic), Parental Scaffolding of Children's Perception-Action Skills, sponsored by US National Science Foundation - $470,104
  • Victor Ray, associate professor, Department of Sociology; New Grant, Fellowship - Faculty, Harvard Business in Global Society Fellowship, sponsored by Harvard Business School: Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society - $145,854
  • Cesare Tinelli, professor, Department of Computer Science; New Contract-Subgrant, Research (Basic), PEGISUS, sponsored by Stanford University (prime sponsor: US Department of Defense, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) - $366,821
  • Alexei Tivanski, professor, Department of Chemistry; Scott Shaw, professor, Department of Chemistry; and David Cwiertny, professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering; New Grant, Research (Basic), ABCs of SUCCESS: Associating Biology and Chemistry to study SUCCession in Environmental SurfaceS, sponsored by US Department of Defense, Army - $625,000
  • Emily Thomas, clinical associate professor, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences; New Contract, Research (Basic), Acceptance And Commitment Therapy Intervention For Cardiometabolic Conditions In Rural Veterans, sponsored by US Department of Veterans Affairs, VA Office of Research and Development, Iowa City VA Health Care System - $103,362
  • Tina Tootle, departmental executive officer, Department of Biology; Bryan Phillips, professor, Department of Biology; Sarit Smolikove, professor, Department of Biology; and Michael Dailey, associate professor, Department of Biology; New Grant, Equipment, MRI: Track 1: Acquisition Of A Field-scanning Spinning Disk Confocal Imaging System For Super-resolution And Live Imaging Of Biological Systems, sponsored by US National Science Foundation - $848,348
  • Bess Vlaisavljevich, associate professor, Department of Chemistry; New Grant, Research (Basic), CASPT2 Geometries, Spectra, and Relativistic Electronic Structures of Actinide Species, sponsored by US Department of Energy - $459,092
  • Jan Wessel, associate professor, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences; New Grant, Clinical Trial, Other, The TMS-evoked potential as a measure of cortical excitation and inhibition during cognitive processes, sponsored by NIH - $427,625
  • Xueyu Zhu, associate professor, Department of Mathematics; New Grant, Research (Basic), Towards Efficient Uncertainty Quantification for Scientific Machine Learning, sponsored by Simons Foundation - $42,000

July

  • Joseph Breen, postdoctoral research scholar, Department of Mathematics; New Grant, Other, AMS-Simons Travel Grant, sponsored by American Mathematical Society (prime sponsor: Simons Foundation) - $5,000
  • Andrew Forbes, professor, Department of Biology; New Grant, Research (Basic), Collaborative Research: How do gall-forming insects escape diverse and evolving clades of parasitic wasps - and how do parasites catch up?, sponsored by US National Science Foundation - $639,125
  • Eric Hunter, departmental executive officer, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders; New Grant, Research (Basic), Protecting Teachers' Voices: Investigating Risk Factors, Conducting Cost Analysis, sponsored by NIH - $1,033,098
  • Kai Hwang, associate professor, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences; New Contract, Other, Research collaboration with Tufts, sponsored by Tufts University - $25,000
  • Mili Kuruvilla-Dugdale, associate professor, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders; and Elizabeth Walker, associate professor, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders; New Grant, Training Program, Research Initiative for Science Education in Communication Sciences and Disorders (RISE-CSD), sponsored by American Speech-Language-Hearing Association - $15,000
  • Rishab Nithyanand, assistant professor, Department of Computer Science; New Grant, Research (Basic), CAREER: SaTC: Law-First Methodologies for Privacy Regulatory Compliance Audits, sponsored by US National Science Foundation - $200,015
  • Chris Pigge, associate professor, Department of Chemistry; New Grant, Research (Basic), Turning Reactive Organic Intermediates into Versatile Metal Ligands Organometallic Complexes and Catalysts from Alkylidene Dihydropyridines, sponsored by US National Science Foundation - $579,365
  • Wayne Polyzou, professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy; New Grant, Research (Basic), EAGER: IMPRESS-U: Two-body currents in relativistic electron and neutrino scattering off few-nucleon targets, sponsored by US National Science Foundation - $300,000
  • Alberto Segre, departmental executive officer, Department of Computer Science; and Garrett Morris, assistant professor, Department of Computer Science; New Grant, Other, Collaborative Research: FMitF: Track III: Integrating Formal Methods into the Foundational Undergraduate Curriculum, sponsored by US National Science Foundation - $77,430
  • Jenna Springer, graduate teaching assistant, Department of Health and Human Physiology; New Grant, Research (Basic), Purchasing Fitness Equipment for New University of Iowa Fitness Studio, sponsored by Fraternal Order of Eagles - $2,040
  • Ravitej Uppu, assistant professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy; New Grant, Research (Basic), Robust generation and transfer of multiphoton states using reduced-symmetry quantum photonics, sponsored by US Department of Defense, Air Force - $595,374
  • Bingbing Zhang, assistant professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication; and Jun Wang, departmental executive officer, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering; New Grant, Research (Basic), RII Track-2 FEC: Data-Advanced Research and Education (DARE) to improve weather intelligence and localized climate change assessment and resilience in ag--based communities, sponsored by US National Science Foundation - $2,999,894

June

  • Adrianna Caro, graduate research assistant, Department of Biology; New Grant, Role of the immune response in spiral ganglion neuron death after hair cell loss, sponsored by NIH - $36,262
  • Chi-Lien Cheng, professor, Department of Biology; New Grant, Collaborative Research: The evolution and development of fundamental reproductive structures: sporangia, sponsored by US National Science Foundation - $750,000
  • Matthew Dannenberg, assistant professor, Department of Geographic and Sustnablty Sciences; New Grant, Collaborative Research: Reducing uncertainties in tree-ring records of wet extremes to aid interpretations of past climate and plan for future changes, sponsored by US National Science Foundation - $324,677
  • Casey DeRoo, associate professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy; New Contract-Subgrant, X-ray Reflection Gratings: Key Developments for the Next Decade, sponsored by Pennsylvania State University (prime sponsor: US National Aeronautics & Space Administration) - $32,123
  • Mei-ling Joiner, asst research scientist/engin, Department of Biology; New Contract-Subgrant, Genetic basis of the evolution of insect hearing, sponsored by University of Leicester (prime sponsor: The Royal Society) - $5,740
  • Susan Lutgendorf, professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences; Michelle Voss, associate professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences; and Daniel Tranel, professor, Department of Neurology; New Grant, Understanding Health and Disease at the Behavioral-Biomedical Interface, sponsored by NIH - $1,354,735
  • Valerie Payre, assistant professor, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences; New Grant, Exploration of Igneous Rocks at the Surface of Mars Combining Experimental Petrology and Remote Sensing, sponsored by US National Aeronautics & Space Administration - $469,319
  • Jason Radley, professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences; New Contract-Subgrant, Stressor controllability: prefrontal circuits that produce resilience and dominance, sponsored by University of Colorado Boulder (prime sponsor: NIH) - $70,474
  • Rahul Singh, professor, Department of Computer Science; New Contract-Subgrant, Reasoning with chemically induced dynamic phenotypes in whole-organism assays, sponsored by San Francisco State University (prime sponsor: NIH) - $136,982
  • Zhiwei Tong, assistant professor, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science; and Boxiang Wang, associate professor, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science; New Grant, A Novel SAFE Model for Predicting the Impact of Climate-Related Extremes, sponsored by Society of Actuaries - $41,785

May

  • Mark Arnold, professor, Department of Chemistry; Maria Spies, professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; and Michael Schnieders, associate professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering; New Grant, Iowa Biotech-TP: Predoctoral Program in Biotechnology, sponsored by NIH - $2,127,775
  • Kyle Bikowski, graduate teaching assistant, Department of Anthropology; New Grant, Identity Work and Community Building Among Mexican Gaymers, sponsored by Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc. - $24,998
  • Raul Curto, professor, Department of Mathematics; New Grant, Travel Support for IWOTA 2024, sponsored by US National Science Foundation - $273,407
  • Casey DeRoo, assistant professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy; New Contract-Subgrant, Technology Maturation for Adjustable X-ray Mirrors, sponsored by Pennsylvania State University (prime sponsor: US National Aeronautics & Space Administration) - $40,408
  • Tori Forbes, professor, Department of Chemistry; Scott Daly, associate professor, Department of Chemistry; and Korey Carter, assistant professor, Department of Chemistry; New Grant, Enhancing Radiochemistry Capabilities at the University of Iowa, sponsored by Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust - $558,755
  • David Hartley, asst research scientist/engin, Department of Physics and Astronomy; New Grant, Collaborative Research: GEM: Whistler-mode wave properties in plasmasphere-plasmatrough transition regions, sponsored by US National Science Foundation - $345,680
  • Jane Nachtman, professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy; New Contract-Subcontract, Activities Related to DUNE at Fermilab, sponsored by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC (prime sponsor: US Department of Energy) - $460,000
  • Elizabeth Walker, associate professor, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders; New Grant, Increasing the Diversity of Education in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology (Project IDEAS), sponsored by US Department of Education - $1,249,517