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. 

July - September 2026

  • Ryan LaLumiere, Professor, and Jason Radley, Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences, and Nandakumar Narayanan, Professor, Neurology; New Grant, Research (Basic), Neural systems mediating competing motivations for cocaine seeking, Sponsored by the National Institutes of Health - $3,060,575
  • Bengi Baran, Assistant Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences, Junjie Liu, Clinical Assistant Professor, Neurology, Vincent Magnotta, Professor, Radiology, and Aislinn Williams, Associate Professor, Psychiatry; New Grant, Research (Basic), Aging with Schizophrenia: A Multi-site investigation of the effects of Sleep Disturbances on Brain Connectivity and Cognitive Functioning, Sponsored by the National Institutes of Health - $3,809,499
  • Tina Tootle, Professor and Michelle Giedt, Assistant Research Scientist, Biology; New Grant, Research (Basic), Interplay between lipid droplet factors and actin remodeling in oogenesis, Sponsored by the National Institutes of Health - $3,104,546
  • Bin He, Associate Professor, Biology; New Research Grant, Evolution of Stress Response Gene Regulatory Network in a Commensal and Opportunistic Yeast Pathogen, Sponsored by the National Institutes of Health - $1,966,375
  • Teresa Treat, Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences; New Contract-Subgrant, Research (Basic), Moderators and Mediators of Within-Person Risk for Contact and Non-Contact Sexual Aggression in College Men, Sponsored by Arizona State University (Prime: National Institutes of Health)- $1,194,552
  • Elizabeth Walker, Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders; New Contract-Subgrant, Research (Basic), Audiological Rehabilitation of Children with Unilateral Hearing Loss, Sponsored by Boys Town National Research Hospital (Prime: National Institutes of Health) - $1,175,709
  • Daniel Eberl, Professor, Biology; New Grant, Research (Basic), Regulation of motor mechanisms in active mechanosensation, Sponsored by the US National Science Foundation – $1,232,490
  • Sriram Pemmaraju, Professor, and Sourya Roy, Assistant Professor, Computer Science; New Grant, Research (Basic), AF: Distributed Random Sampling, Sponsored by the US National Science Foundation - $999,990
  • Anna Stanhewicz, Associate Professor, Health, Sport, and Human Physiology; New Grant, Research (Basic), Mechanisms by which antidepressant therapy improves vascular function after preeclampsia, Sponsored by the American Heart Association – $76,987
  • Susan Meerdink, Assistant Professor, School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability; New Grant, Research (Basic), CAREER: Revealing the Connection between Invasive Species Distributions and Disturbance Events Using Satellite Remote Sensing, Sponsored by the US National Science Foundation - $591,565
  • Mary Hall Reno, Professor, Physics and Astronomy; New Contract-Subgrant, Research (Basic), Continued Development of nuSpaceSim: Modeling of the Extensive Air Shower Signals from Cosmic Neutrinos for Suborbital and Space-based Experiments, Sponsored by the US National Aeronautics & Space Administration, Goddard Space Flight Center - $223,967
  • Colin Case, Assistant Professor, Political Science; New Grant, Research (Basic), The Primary Effect: How Intraparty Competition Shapes Congressional Behavior, Sponsored by the Unite America Institute - $41,424
  • Yannick Meurice, Professor, Physics and Astronomy; New Grant, Research (Basic), Quantum computing in lattice field theory for high energy physics, Sponsored by the US Department of Energy - $659,000
  • Scott Daly, Professor, and Bess Vlaisavljevich, Associate Professor, Chemistry; New Grant, Research (Basic), Metal-Metal Multiple Bonded Complexes with Modular Redox Active Ligands, Sponsored by the US National Science Foundation - $600,000
  • Renee Cole, Professor, Chemistry, and Anna Flaming, Assistant Provost for Teaching and Learning and Director of the Center for Teaching; New Grant, Conference Grant, Promoting Cross-institutional Evidence-based Practices Implementation and Assessment to Enhance Student Outcomes Through a Meeting of the SCIENCE Collaborative, Sponsored by the US National Science Foundation - $99,898
  • Allison Jaynes, Associate Professor, Physics and Astronomy; New Contract-Subgrant, Research (Basic), Research, Technology Transition, and Workforce Development at Scale with Speed: A Proposal to Establish the Midwest AFRL Regional Research Convergence Hub (M-ARRCH), Sponsored by Purdue University (Prime: US Department of Defense, Air Force Research Laboratory) - $50,000
  • Muchao Ye, Assistant Professor, Computer Science; New Grant, Research (Basic), Collaborative Research: III: Toward Human-Centered, Generalizable, and Verifiable Automated Video Surveillance: A Verbalized Vision-Language Model Paradigm, Sponsored by the US National Science Foundation - $208,605
  • David Hartley, Associate Research Scientist, Physics and Astronomy; New Grant, Research (Basic), Collaborative Research: GEM: Revealing and Quantifying Hidden Low Frequency Hiss, Sponsored by US National Science Foundation - $143,232
  • Matthew Dannenberg, Associate Professor, School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability; New Grant, Research (Basic), Collaborative Research: NSF-SNSF: SCALE-UP - Understanding VPD impacts on forests across scales to advance the next generation of Earth-system models, Sponsored by the US National Science Foundation - $599,594
  • Michael Flatte, Professor, Physics and Astronomy; New Contract-Subgrant, Research (Basic), Distributed-Entanglement Quantum Sensing of Chemical Properties (DQS-CP), Sponsored by Ohio State University (Prime: US National Science Foundation) - $320,000
  • David Miles, Associate Professor, Ravitej Uppu, Assistant Professor, Thomas Folland, Associate Professor, and Denis Candido, Assistant Professor, Physics and Astronomy; New Contract-Subgrant, Research (Basic), Nitrogen-Vacancy Quantum Magnetometer Shield of Ionospheric Irregularities and GPS Scintillation (NV-SHIELD), Sponsored by COPPERSTORM (Prime: US Department of Defense, National Reconnaissance Office)- $800,000
  • Edward Gillan, Professor, Chemistry; New Grant, Research (Basic), Rapid, Flexible Growth of Crystalline Earth-Abundant Metal Borides for Molecule-Surface Investigations Relevant to Electrocatalytic Hydrogen and Nitrogen Reduction Reactions, Sponsored by the US National Science Foundation - $485,290
  • Margaret Carrel, Professor, School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability, Mary Vaughan Sarrazin, Associate Professor, Internal Medicine, and Giovana Bowers, Clinical Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine; New Contract-Subgrant, Research (Basic), Community OHCA Risk Prediction Using Machine Learning: A Multi-Domain Approach to Prevention and Preparedness, Sponsored by the University of Chicago (Prime: The National Institutes of Health) - $342,425
  • Yu-Hsiang Wu, Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders; New Contract, Research (Applied), Clinical Validation of MIMO-One Neural Architecture in Complex Acoustic Environments, Sponsored by Fantasia Trading LLC - $59,739
  • Yasar Onel, Professor, and Burak Bilki, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Physics and Astronomy; New Grant, Research (Basic), Development of Secondary Emission Calorimetry, Sponsored by US Department of Energy - $300,000
  • Jordan Harshman, Associate Professor, and Cheng-Wen He, Postdoctoral Scholar, Chemistry, New Grant, Research (Basic), Collaborative Research: Enhancing STEM Instructor Reflection by Automatically Detecting Instructional Practices, Sponsored by the US National Science Foundation - $305,928
  • Tianyu Zhang, Assistant Professor, and Steve Goddard, Professor, Computer Science; New Grant, Research (Basic), Collaborative Research: VINES: Track 1: NSF-SRC: Towards Resilient and Converged NextG Manufacturing Systems, Sponsored by the US National Science Foundation - $270,000
  • David Martin, Associate Professor, Chemistry; New Grant, Research (Basic), Iron(III) Halide Complexes as Sustainable Photocatalysts for Radical-Mediated Reactions: Mechanism, Wavelength Tunability and Applications, Sponsored by the US National Science Foundation - $550,000
  • Denis Candido, Assistant Professor, Physics and Astronomy; New Grant, Research (Basic), ECCS-EPSRC: Electrical Readout for Sub-diffraction Imaging with hBN Spin Centers, Sponsored by the US National Science Foundation - $525,000
  • Scott Daly, Professor, Chemistry; New Grant, Research (Basic), Structural and Spectroscopic Investigations of Transuranium-Phosphine Bonding, Sponsored by the US Department of Energy - $699,150
  • Matheus Hostert, Assistant Professor, Physics and Astronomy; New Contract-Subcontract, Postdoctoral Fellowship, Neutrino Theory Network Postdoctoral Scholar, Sponsored by the Fermi Forward Discovery Group, LLC (Prime: US Department of Energy) - $301,922
  • Anna Stanhewicz, Associate Professor, Health, Sport, and Human Physiology; New Contract, Fee for Service, Work Order for Araka Therapeutics AB, Sponsored by Araka Therapeutics AB – $21,630
  • Bijaya Adhikari, Associate Professor, Computer Science; New Grant, Other, Student Travel: Student Support for SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM) 2026, Sponsored by the US National Science Foundation - $20,000
  • Garrett Morris, Associate Professor, Computer Science; New Grant, Other, Midwest Programming Languages Summit 2026--2028, Sponsored by the US National Science Foundation - $15,000
  • Valerie Payre, Assistant Professor, School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability; New Contract-Subcontract, Research (Basic), Mars 2020 SuperCam, Sponsored by the US National Aeronautics & Space Administration, Jet Propulsion Laboratory - $6,250
  • Kara Whitaker, Associate Professor, Health, Sport, and Human Physiology; New Grant, Research (Applied), Examining Compliance and Impact of a 5-Minute Seated Rest Protocol on Home Blood Pressure Monitoring in Postpartum Women at High Risk for Elevated Blood Pressure, Sponsored by the Iowa Fraternal Order of Eagles - $4,790

April - June 2026

  • John Freeman, Professor, Psychological & Brain Sciences; Krystal Parker, Associate Professor, Psychiatry; New Research Grant, Cerebellar Interactions with the Anterior Cingulate and Hippocampus during Associative Learning, sponsored by NIH - $2,702,515
  • Maurine Neiman, Professor, Biology; New Research Grant, Collaborative Research: Theoretical and Empirical Investigation of Mutation Rate Evolution Driven by Variation in Reproductive Mode, sponsored by US National Science Foundation - $1,085,683
  • Matthew Dannenberg, Associate Professor, Earth, Environment, & Sustain; New Research Grant, Collaborative Research: NSF-SNSF: SCALE-UP - Understanding VPD Impacts on Forests Across Scales to Advance the Next Generation of Earth-system Models, sponsored by US National Science Foundation - $599,594
  • Susan Cook, Associate Professor, Psychological & Brain Sciences; New Research Grant, Personalized Multimodal Instruction and Conceptual Change Dynamics in Mathematics Learning, sponsored by US National Science Foundation - $574,558
  • Tina Tootle, Professor, Biology; New Research Grant, Defining the form-specific functions and regulation of nuclear actin within the nucleolus, sponsored by US National Science Foundation - $500,000
  • John Logsdon, Associate Professor, Biology; Andrew Kitchen, Professor, Anthropology; New Training Program Grant, REU Site: Engaging Undergraduates in Interdisciplinary Evolutionary Science, sponsored by US National Science Foundation - $465,000
  • Sara Hussain, Assistant Professor, Health, Sport, and Human Physiology; New Research Grant, Corticoreticulospinal Control of Poststroke Grasping, sponsored by Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust - $426,396
  • Chih-Chia Chen, Assistant Professor, Health, Sport, and Human Physiology; New Community Service Award, Civil Money Penalty Quality Improvement Initiative "CMPQII"-Bingocize: An evidence-based health promotion program to improve the quality of life of Iowa skilled nursing facility residents, sponsored by Iowa Department of Health and Human Services (prime sponsor: US Department of Health & Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) - $443,587
  • Edward Gillan, Professor, Chemistry; New Research Grant, Investigation of Carbon Dioxide Surface Reactions on Crystalline Metal Phosphide Particles to Assess Phosphorus Impact on CO2 Electroreduction, sponsored by American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund - $125,000
  • Gary Pierce, Professor, Health, Sport, and Human Physiology; New Research Grant, Retinal Artery Function in Preeclampsia: Window into Cerebrovascular and Cognitive Health, sponsored by American Heart Association - $100,000
  • Gabriella Sturchio, Assistant Professor, Art, Art History and Design; New Faculty Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, sponsored by John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation - $77,000
  • Tara Bynum, Associate Professor, English; New Faculty Fellowship, A Revolutionary History of Everyday Kinds of Black Joy, sponsored by John Carter Brown Library - $50,000
  • Kendall Heitzman, Associate Professor, Language, Linguistics, Literature, and Cultures; New Grant, Japanese Writers in the University of Iowa's International Writing Program and Beyond, sponsored by Japan Foundation - $25,000
  • Orgho A. Neogi, Graduate Student; Jane Nachtman, Professor, Physics and Astronomy; New Graduate Student Fellowship/Scholarship, Analysis of Neutrino Magnetic Moment Using Nova Near Detector, sponsored by Universities Research Association, Inc. - $12,000
  • Halit R. Bagdu, Graduate Student; Yasar Onel, Professor, Physics and Astronomy; New Graduate Student Fellowship/Scholarship, Neutrino Searches in ProtoDUNE-VD: Research Plan for URA Visiting Scholars Program, sponsored by Universities Research Association, Inc. - $4,000

January - March 2026

  • Douglas Houston, Professor, Biology; Other Award, DSHB Antibody Research, Production and Distribution Facility, sponsored by NIH - $3,398,996
  • E. Anne Martin, Assistant Professor, Biology; Basic Research Grant, Uncovering molecular mechanisms of cell-cell communication, sponsored by Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust - $445,611
  • Tina Tootle, Professor, Biology; Instructional Grant, Enhance undergraduate laboratory education across the four disciplines of Biology, sponsored by Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust - $194,353
  • Jordan Harshman, Associate Professor, Chemistry; Basic Research Grant, CAREER: Uncovering Faculty Beliefs and Values to Define a Model of Doctoral Education in Chemistry, sponsored by US National Science Foundation - $737,148
  • Lucas Silva, Assistant Professor, Computer Science; Basic Research Grant, Investigating AI with Children and Family Collaboration for Self-Tracking and Wellbeing, sponsored by Google Research - $60,000
  • Emily Finzel, Professor, Earth, Environment, & Sustainability; Equipment Grant, Transforming Environmental Learning Spaces: Classrooms and Living Laboratories at the University of Iowa, sponsored by Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust - $406,877
  • Valerie Payre, Assistant Professor, Earth, Environment, & Sustainability, and Protiti Roy, Graduate Student; New Fellowship/Scholarship, Morphological and Mineralogical Characterization of High Thermal Inertia Regions on the Floor of Valles Marineris, Mars, sponsored by US National Aeronautics & Space Administration - $100,000
  • Adam Corkery, Postdoc Research Fellow, Health, Sport, and Human Physiology; New Fellowship Grant, The Impact of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus on Cerebrovascular Function after Pregnancy, sponsored by American Diabetes Association - $271,959
  • Sara Hussain, Assistant Professor, Health, Sport, and Human Physiology; Basic Research Grant, Developing real-time personalized TMS to target residual corticospinal connections after stroke, sponsored by NIH - $245,687
  • Sara Hussain, Assistant Professor, Health, Sport, and Human Physiology; Clinical Trial, Towards real-time personalized brain state-dependent TMS to enhance poststroke hand rehabilitation, sponsored by NIH - $229,318
  • Garrett Steinbrink, Graduate Fellow, Health, Sport, and Human Physiology; Graduate Fellowship/Scholarship Award, Development and Validation of a Muscle-Strengthening Activities Screening Tool for the Healthcare Setting, sponsored by American Heart Association - $70,676
  • Ionut Chifan, Professor, Mathematics; Sergii Bezuglyi, Asst Professor of Instruction, Mathematics; Raul Curto, Professor, Mathematics; Daniel Drimbe, Assistant Professor, Mathematics; and Palle Jorgensen, Professor, Mathematics; Conference Grant, 2026 Great Plains Operator Theory Symposium, sponsored by US National Science Foundation - $40,000
  • Meghan Ross, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Music; Contract-Subgrant, Caring Cadences (2025 App Art Project Grant for Organizations), sponsored by Iowa Arts Council (prime sponsor: US National Endowment for the Arts) - $9,850
  • Yasar Onel, Professor, Physics and Astronomy; Basic Research Grant, Advanced Calorimetry for High Energy Physics: Characterization and Material Exploration for Enhanced Radiation-Hard Timing and Resolution, sponsored by Coe College (prime sponsor: US Department of Energy) - $324,994
  • Dustin Swarm, Assistant Professor, Physics and Astronomy; Basic Research Grant, Developing a Gamma Ray Reflectometer for 511 keV Multilayer Performance Characterization, sponsored by US National Aeronautics & Space Administration - $173,658
  • Allison Jaynes, Associate Professor, Physics and Astronomy; Basic Research Grant, 24-HELIO24-0039 Characterizing Pulsating Aurora: Dependence on Substorm Phase and Wave Dynamics, sponsored by US National Aeronautics & Space Administration - $150,000
  • Emily Thomas, Clinical Associate Professor, Psychological & Brain Sciences; Basic Research Grant, ActiveCBT for depression: Transforming treatment through exercise priming, sponsored by the University of Wisconsin System, UW-Madison (prime sponsor: NIH) - $33,077
  • Hazal Arpaci Atmacaoglu, Graduate Student, Psychological & Brain Sciences; Basic Research Grant, Effects of Acute Stress on NREM Sleep Oscillations and Sleep-Dependent Memory Consolidation, sponsored by Sleep Research Society Foundation - $5,000

October - December 2025

  • Tori Forbes, professor, Chemistry; New Grant, Equipment, Pioneering New Capabilities in Correlative Mapping of Biomaterial Structure and Composition at the University of Iowa, sponsored by Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust - $200,089
  • Rahul Singh, professor, Computer Science; and William Thiel, associate professor, Internal Medicine; New Grant, Research (Basic), Advancing Precision Medicine for Vascular Health: Targeting VSMC Growth with Cell-Specific Aptamers, sponsored by Dr. Ralph and Marian Falk Medical Research Trust - $349,987
  • Valerie Payre, assistant professor, Earth, Environment, & Sustainability; New Contract-Subgrant, Research (Basic), Petrological Characterization of Feldspar-Bearing Terrains on Mars Using VNIR Spectroscopy: Nature of Mars' Crust, sponsored by Iowa Space Grant Consortium (prime sponsor: US National Aeronautics & Space Administration) - $156,459
  • Vitor Lira, associate professor, Health, Sport, and Human Physiology; New Contract-Subgrant, Research (Basic), The role of orosomucoid1 in skeletal muscle aging during an optimized autophagy activity intervention, sponsored by Rowan University (prime sponsor: National Institutes of Health) - $41,939
  • Bingbing Zhang, assistant professor, Journalism and Mass Communications; New Contract-Subgrant, Research (Basic), Examining the Impact of Transparency and Community Notes on Voters' Trust and Perception of AI-Generated Political Advertising, sponsored by The Arthur W. Page Center for Integrity in Public Communication (prime sponsor: Pennsylvania State University) - $4,000
  • Michael Flatte, professor, Physics and Astronomy; New Contract-Subcontract, Research (Basic), Q-NEXT: Interconnecting U.S. Quantum Science and Technology, sponsored by US Department of Energy, Argonne National Laboratories (prime sponsor: US Department of Energy, Office of Science) - $482,000
  • Michael Flatte, professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy; New Contract-Subgrant, Research (Basic), Collaborative Research: Development of atomic resolution spin dynamics imaging scanning tunneling microscopy (SDI-STM), sponsored by Ohio State University (prime sponsor: US Department of Energy, Office of Science) - $948,486
  • Yasar Onel, professor, Physics and Astronomy; New Contract-Subcontract, Research (Basic), Activities Related to the High Luminosity (HL) LHC CMS Detector Upgrade Project MIP Timing Detector, sponsored by Fermi Forward Discovery Group, LLC (prime sponsor: US Department of Energy) - $52,005
  • Paul Dilley, associate professor, Religious Studies; New Grant, AI Models with Reinforcement Learning to Edit Text in Damaged Manuscripts, sponsored by Schmidt Sciences - $235,868
  • Lauren Gil Hayes, graduate student, Social Work; New Grant, Health Policy Research Scholars, sponsored by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - $124,000
  • Luis Martin-Estudillo, professor, Spanish and Portuguese; New Contract-Subgrant, Mass Migrations, Personal Voices: Latin American Women Migrants Write Their Stories, sponsored by University of California, Berkeley (prime sponsor: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation) - $10,000
  • Kanokwan Bunsawat, assistant professor, Health, Sport, and Human Physiology; New Contract-Subgrant, Research (Basic), Dietary Ketone Supplementation as a Novel Strategy to Attenuate the Adverse Vascular and Renal Consequences of High Dietary Salt in Older Adults, sponsored by Indiana University (prime sponsor: National Institutes of Health) - $10,929
  • Derick Juptner, graduate student, Anthropology; New Grant, Research (Basic), Showing Lovitt New Love: Understanding the Spatial and Temporal Relationships of the Dismal River Type Site, sponsored by Plains Anthropological Society - $7,600
  • Yannick Meurice, professor, Physics and Astronomy; and Zane Ozzello, Graduate Student, Physics and Astronomy; New Grant, Improving upon a Hybrid Classical/Quantum Event Generator, sponsored by Universities Research Association, Inc. - $5,000
  • Yannick Meurice, professor, Physics and Astronomy; and Blake Senseman, Graduate Student, Physics and Astronomy; New Grant, Development of Ab-Initio Methods for Event Generation, sponsored by Universities Research Association, Inc. - $1,422
  • Yasar Onel, professor, Physics and Astronomy; and Ohannes Koseyan, graduate student, Physics and Astronomy; New Grant, Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson decaying to two muons, CMS HF M&O, and construction of CMS Endcap Timing Layer for CMS Phase II upgrade, sponsored by Universities Research Association, Inc. - $5,000
  • Yasar Onel, professor, Physics and Astronomy; and Dylan Blend, graduate student, Physics and Astronomy; New Grant, CMS Outer Tracker Phase 2 Upgrade, sponsored by Universities Research Association, Inc. - $4,120

September 2025

  • David Schwebel, vice president for research, Tom Folland, assistant professor, John Prineas, professor, & Ravi Uppu, assistant professor, OVPR and Department of Physics and Astronomy; New Grant, Equipment, Heterogeneous Nanoscale Materials Collaborative for Quantum Technologies at the University of Iowa, sponsored by US Department of Defense, Department of the Air Force, Air Force Office of Scientific Research - $1,498,989
  • Elizabeth Walker, associate professor, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders; New Contract-Subgrant, Research (Basic), Neural Dynamics underlying Sensory Processing in Children with Mild-to-Severe Hearing Loss, sponsored by Father Flanagan’s Boys Home (prime: US Department of Health & Human Services, National Institutes of Health) - $140,465
  • Yasar Onel, professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy; New Contract-Subcontract, Research (Basic), Activities Related to the US CMS HCAL Subsystem, sponsored by Fermi Forward Discovery Group, LLC (prime: US Department of Energy) - $31,055
  • Gary Small, professor, Department of Chemistry; New Grant, Research (Basic), Chemometric Tools for Airborne Remote Sensing, sponsored by Spectral Systems Integration, LLC - $78,952
  • David Hartley, assistant research scientist/engineer, Department of Physics and Astronomy; New Grant, Other, Collaborative Research: Conference: GEM Workshop, sponsored by US National Science Foundation - $427,771
  • Ece Demir Lira, assistant professor, & Isaac Petersen, associate professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences; New Grant, Research (Basic), Identifying Relations between Premature Birth, Parental Factors, and the Neural Basis of Numerical Development, sponsored by US Department of Health & Human Services, National Institutes of Health - $1,772,666
  • Simal Gerot, graduate fellow, Department of Political Science; New Contract-Subgrant, Research (Basic), News Habits and Emotional Well-Being: Investigating Political News Consumption and Mental Health, sponsored by American Political Science Association (prime: US National Science Foundation) - $14,749
  • Boxiang Wang, associate professor, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science; New Contract-Subgrant, Research (Basic), DMS/NIGMS 2: Novel Statistical Methods, Algorithms, and Pipelines for Learning Omics Data with Complex Heterogeneity, sponsored by New York University (prime: US Department of Health & Human Services, National Institutes of Health) - $47,028
  • Kai Hwang, associate professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences; New Grant, Clinical Trial, Other, Investigating mediodorsal thalamus representations underlying human cognitive flexibility, sponsored by US Department of Health & Human Services, National Institutes of Health - $4,171,267

August 2025

  • Daniel Drimbe, assistant professor, Department of Mathematics; New Grant, Research (Basic), Rigidity results for von Neumann algebras and equivalence relations, sponsored by US National Science Foundation - $247,985
  • Scott Shaw, professor, & Scott Daly, associate professor, Department of Chemistry; New Grant, Research (Basic), Collaborative Research: Redox Electrolyte Co-design for Enhanced Solubility and Stability (RECESS), sponsored by US National Science Foundation - $335,956
  • Sanvesh Srivastava, associate professor, Department of Statistics Actuarial Science; New Grant, Research (Basic), Collaborative Research: Array-Variate Models for Longitudinal Data: Scalable Mixed and Autoregressive Approaches, sponsored by US National Science Foundation - $119,994
  • Emily Thomas, clinical associate professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences; New Contract, Other, VA IPA Micah Williams, sponsored by US Department of Veteran Affairs, Veterans Rural Health Resource Center, Iowa City VA Health Care System - $52,475
  • Michael Flatte, professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy; New Contract-Subgrant, Research (Basic), DMREF: Collaborative Research: Systematic Discovery of Materials Platforms for Spin-Light Quantum Interfaces, sponsored by Brown University (prime: US National Science Foundation) - $25,358
  • Daniel Drimbe, assistant professor, Department of Mathematics; New Grant, Other, Rigidity results for von Neumann algebras and equivalence relations, sponsored by Simons Foundation - $42,000
  • Hao Fang, associate professor, Department of Mathematics; New Grant, Other, Canonical metrics in conformal and complex geometry, sponsored by Simons Foundation - $42,000
  • Grace Maurer, graduate research assistant, Department of Health, Sport, and Human Physiology; New Grant, Fellowship, Endothelin-1 signaling in microvascular responses to insulin and the role of physical activity and sedentary behavior in women with a history of gestational diabetes mellitus, sponsored by US Department of Health & Human Services, National Institutes of Health - $159,794.
  • Greogry Friestad, associate professor, Department of Chemistry; New Grant, Research (Basic), Expanding the Synthetic Applications of Enol Esters and Their Epoxide Derivatives, sponsored by US National Science Foundation - $450,000
  • Casey DeRoo, associate professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy; New Grant, Research (Basic), 24-ASTRO24-0014 – Designing Compact X-ray Optics for Pulsar-informed Navigation, sponsored by US National Aeronautics & Space Administration - $150,000
  • Yea Won Sung, assistant professor, Department of Biology; New Grant, Research (Basic), Roles of Macrophages in Cisplatin-induced Hearing Loss, sponsored by US Department of Health & Human Services, National Institutes of Health - $739,338

July 2025

  • Frauke Bleher, professor, Department of Mathematics; New Grant, Research (Basic), Collaborative Research: FRGMS: Small root discriminants in number theory and cryptography, sponsored by US National Science Foundation - $242,337
  • Raul Curto, professor, Department of Mathematics; New Grant, Conference Grant, Travel Support for IWOTA 2025, sponsored by US National Science Foundation - $15,000
  • Garrett Morris, assistant professor, Department of Computer Science; New Grant, Research (Basic), SHF: MEDIUM: Extensible LCF-style Theorem Proving with Dependent Rows, sponsored by US National Science Foundation - $1,199,815
  • Ionut Chifan, professor, Department of Mathematics; New Grant, Research (Basic), Rigidity Theory of von Neumann Algebras and its Connections to C*-Algebras, Geometric Group Theory, and Continuous Model Theory, sponsored by US National Science Foundation - $257,995
  • David Nataf, assistant professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy; New Grant, Research (Basic), Correcting for the Effects of the Optical/Near-Infrared Interstellar Extinction Toward the Roman Galactic Exoplanet Survey Fields, sponsored by Space Telescope Science Institute - $25,000
  • Paul Dilley, associate professor, Department of Religious Studies; New Contract-Subgrant, Other, Hidden Stories: New Approaches to the Local and Global History of the Book, sponsored by University of Toronto (prime: Mellon Foundation) - $5,471
  • Gregory Howes, professor, & Frederick Skiff, professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy; New Grant, Research (Basic), Plasma Seismology: Fully Exploiting Velocity Distributions to Recover Spatial Electric Field Structure, sponsored by US National Science Foundation - $449,999
  • John Goree, professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy; New Grant, Research (Basic), Collaborative Research: ECLIPSE-CHIPS: Avoiding contamination by controlling charging and transport of particles in plasmas under modulation and afterglow conditions, sponsored by US National Science Foundation - $405,000
  • Jae Myung Kim, postdoctoral research scholar, & Kara Whitaker, associate professor, Department of Health, Sport, and Human Physiology; New Grant, Equipment, Optimal Step Counts for Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes Risk Reduction: The Pregnancy 24/7 Cohort Data Analysis, sponsored by Iowa Fraternal Order of the Eagles - $2,500
  • Michelle Voss, professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences; New Grant, Research (Basic), Integrating Self-Report, Sensor Tracking, and Neuroimaging Biomarkers of Cerebrovascular Health, sponsored by University of Texas at Dallas - $26,432
  • Allison Jaynes, associate professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy; New Grant, Research (Basic), Collaborative Research: GEM: Plasmapause control of outer radiation belt electron enhancements, sponsored by US National Science Foundation - $51,126
  • Lucas Carr, associate professor, Department of Health, Sport, and Human Physiology; New Grant, Equipment, Purchasing Resting Metabolic Rate Measurement Equipment for the Community Health Collaborative, sponsored by Iowa Fraternal Order of the Eagles - $2,000
  • Bradley Cramer, professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences; New Grant, Research (Basic), Collaborative Research: GEO OSE Track 1: Toward an Open Science Geologic Time Scale, sponsored by US National Science Foundation - $151,544
  • Ned Bowden, professor, & Johna Leddy, professor, Department of Chemistry; New Grant, Research (Basic), Synthesis and Electrical Properties of Conjugated Polymers Based on Nitrogen and Sulfur, sponsored by US National Science Foundation - $660,000
  • Bin He, associate professor, Department of Biology; New Grant, Research (Basic), Genetic Basis and Evolution of the Transcriptional Response to Oxidative Stress in Diverse Yeasts, sponsored by US National Science Foundation - $900,000
  • Naomi Rodgers, assistant professor, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders; New Grant, Research (Career Development), Promoting Communication Well-Being with Stutter-Affirming Therapy: A Pilot Clinical Trial in the Schools, sponsored by US Department of Health & Human Services, National Institutes of Health - $891,836

June 2025

  • Chase LaSpisa, graduate teaching assistant, Department of Political Science; New Grant, Fellowship, The Role of Fossil-Fuel Resources in Norway’s Maritime Foreign Policy in the Arctic, sponsored by US Department of State, Bureau of Educational & Cultural Affairs, J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board - $19,767
  • Denis Candido, assistant professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy; New Contract-Subgrant, Enhanced Quantum Sensing with entangled NV-center qubits, sponsored by Iowa State University (prime: US National Aeronautics & Space Administration) - $5,000
  • Johna Leddy, professor, Department of Chemistry; New Grant, Research (Basic), Magnetoelectrocatalysis: Hydrogen Evolution Reaction (HER), sponsored by US Department of Defense, Army Research Laboratory - $60,000
  • Adare Smith, graduate fellow, Department of English; New Grant, Fellowship, American Requiem: Remembering the Renaissance Through 18th Century Race and Religion in British America, sponsored by McNeil Center for Early American Studies - $32,000
  • Jeremy Faden, application developer, & David Miles, associate professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy; New Contract-Subcontract, Conference Grant, UI Support for Developing Heliophysics Standards and Cross-science Collaborations Workshop, sponsored by ADNET Systems, Inc. (prime: US National Aeronautics & Space Administration) - $14,724
  • Mei-ling Joiner, assistant research scientist/engineer, Department of Biology; New Contract-Subcontract, Research (Basic), Genetic basis of the evolution of insect hearing, sponsored by University of Keele (prime: The Royal Society) - $5,740
  • Christopher Veeh, associate professor, Department of Social Work; New Contract-Subgrant, Research (Applied), Adaptation of the STAIR-NT Intervention to Respond to Psychological Health Conditions for First Responders with a History of Traumatic Brain Injury, sponsored by Florida State University (prime: US Department of Defense, Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program) - $25,054
  • Mark Berardi, assistant research scientist, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders; New Contract-subgrant, Research (Basic), Neurobiological and psychobiological signatures of vocal effort in early career teachers, sponsored by University Hospital Bonn (prime: US Department of Health & Human Services, National Institutes of Health) - $92,427
  • Kara Whitaker, associate professor, Department of Health, Sport, and Human Physiology; New Grant, Equipment, Examining the comparability of two sleep monitoring devices, sponsored by Iowa Fraternal Order of the Eagles - $3,380

May 2025

  • David Nataf, assistant professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy; New Grant, Research (Basic), A Three-dimensional Extinction Map for Microlensing Planet Discovery and Characterization, sponsored by US National Aeronautics & Space Administration - $310,987
  • Sophia Musoki, graduate teaching assistant, Department of Geographic and Sustainability Science; New Grant, Research (Basic), 2023-2024 Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS) Racial Justice Research and Pedagogy Fellowships, sponsored by Association for the Study of Food and Society - $3,500
  • William Kurth, research scientist/engineer, Department of Physics and Astronomy; Competitive Renewal Subcontract, Research (Basic), REASON Phase E (Radar for Europa Assessment and Sounding: Ocean to Near-surface (REASON): Preliminary Design NASA Solar System Exploration Program (Phase E)), sponsored by University of Texas, Institute for Geophysics (prime: US National Aeronautics & Space Administration) - $777,769
  • Chaeyeon Lee, graduate teaching assistant, Department of Philosophy; New Grant, Other, 2025 Iowa Lyceum (2025 PLATO Application), sponsored by Philosophy Learning and Teaching Organization - $1,000
  • Manoela Lima Oliveira, postdoctoral research scholar, Department of Health, Sport, and Human Physiology; New Grant, Fellowship, 1478093 The Role of Dietary Quality and Gut Microbial Diversity in Functional Vascular Impairments after Early Life Adversity, sponsored by American Heart Association - $152,836

April 2025

  • Shawn Goodman, associate professor, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders; New Contract-Subgrant, Research (Basic), Next Generation OAEs, sponsored by Northwestern University (prime: US Department of Health & Human Services, National Institutes of Health) - $796,452
  • Douglas Houston, professor, Department of Biology; New Grant, Research (Basic), DSHB: Innovations in open sharing of antibodies for research, sponsored by US Department of Health & Human Services, National Institutes of Health - $2,188,873
  • Jane Nachtman, professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy; New Grant, Fellowship, Study of the Neutrino Magnetic Moment with the NOvA Near Detector, sponsored by Universities Research Association, Inc. - $6,000
  • Bob McMurray, professor, Ethan Kutlu, assistant professor, & Leah Zimmerman, clinical assistant professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences; New Grant, Research (Basic), Categorization Consistency: A Fundamental Dimension of Induvial Variation in Speech Perception, sponsored by US National Science Foundation - $794,490