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As a top global university, Iowa is the ideal destination for learning, discovery, and innovation. We bring art and science together to create a truly unique interdisciplinary education. With over 200 areas of study to choose from, students are encouraged to mix and match majors, minors, and certificates to earn a degree that reflects their unique interests.  

From inside our world-class medical center to the most prestigious creative writing program in the U.S., students have access to quality academic support and are equipped with the tools they need to stand out in a competitive workforce. Our 15:1 student-to-faculty ratio allows students to work directly with experts in their field while earning valuable, practical skills.

Our campus seamlessly blends into the heart of downtown Iowa City, making it easy to access academic resources and belong to a larger, welcoming community. With over 500 student organizations, clubs, and communities on campus, and countless in-town events scheduled throughout the year, Iowa makes it easy to build a network of friendships and connections that last a lifetime.

Background image:  The University of Iowa celebrates its diversity by flying the flags of each country represented by a student on campus.

Smaller image:  All-American Caitlin Clark was one of two grand marshals of Iowa's 2023 Homecoming parade.

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As a top global university, Iowa is the ideal destination for learning, discovery, and innovation. We bring art and science together to create a truly unique interdisciplinary education. With over 200 areas of study to choose from, students are encouraged to mix and match majors, minors, and certificates to earn a degree that reflects their unique interests.  

From inside our world-class medical center to the most prestigious creative writing program in the U.S., students have access to quality academic support and are equipped with the tools they need to stand out in a competitive workforce. Our 15:1 student-to-faculty ratio allows students to work directly with experts in their field while earning valuable, practical skills.

Our campus seamlessly blends into the heart of downtown Iowa City, making it easy to access academic resources and belong to a larger, welcoming community. With over 500 student organizations, clubs, and communities on campus, and countless in-town events scheduled throughout the year, Iowa makes it easy to build a network of friendships and connections that last a lifetime.

Background image:  The University of Iowa celebrates its diversity by flying the flags of each country represented by a student on campus.

Smaller image:  All-American Caitlin Clark was one of two grand marshals of Iowa's 2023 Homecoming parade.

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Spencer Cooper-Ohm awarded Fulbright to teach in Kosovo

Spencer Cooper-Ohm, who received a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics, and English and creative writing from the University of Iowa in May 2024, is the winner of a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Award to Kosovo for 2024-25.
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Research / Grant - 2024 May 31

UI announces recipients of 2024 Stanley Award for International Research

19 students have been named recipients of the Stanley Award of International Research. The awards are given annually to outstanding students in all academic fields for the pursuit of foreign research, learning activities in international studies, and career interests abroad.
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Research / Grant - 2024 Mar 27

Undergraduate researchers shine at 2023 Spring Undergraduate Research Festival

More than 100 current University of Iowa students to participate in the 2023 Spring Undergraduate Research Festival, an event staged annually by the Iowa Center for Research by Undergraduates.
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Research / Grant - 2023 May 12

Valeria Cota: Graduate Student Earns Prestigious NIH Award

Valeria Cota is a first-generation college student from a large family, most of whom live in either Iowa or Mexico. She's also completing her fourth year as a graduate student in Associate Professor Nicole Brogden's lab, which focuses on the use of microneedles to improve drug delivery through the skin. Notably, Cota is a recipient of a three-year National Institutes of Health (NIH) Kirschstein National Research Service Award Pre-Doctoral F31 Fellowship - an "extremely prestigious award and notoriously challenging to get," according to Brogden, Cota's major professor.
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Research / Grant - 2023 May 11

Alan Carrillo: Reconstructing medieval architecture with digital modeling

Alan Carrillo, a doctoral candidate in Art History and recipient of the Graduate College's Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship, uses digital modeling to reconstruct seminal medieval architecture lost to time. It was his interest in the Middle Ages that brought him into the field of Art History.
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Research / Grant - 2023 May 10

Jacob Sindt: Undergraduate pursuing research that stands out

A fascination with electronic devices and photonics - or the science of light - has led Jacob Sindt down a promising path of research and discovery as an undergraduate student at the University of Iowa College of Engineering.
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Research / Grant - 2022 Aug 12

Mallory Tollefson: Imagining the Possibilities of Personalized Medicine

Fifth-year Biomedical Engineering PhD student Mallory Tollefson is imagining the possibilities of personalized medicine. And when she says personalized, she means it. She envisions a future where patients diagnosed as deaf would get their genomes sequenced so that she and other researchers could "identify variants that are unique to their genetics."
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Research / Grant - 2022 May 23

Public health students examine TikTok videos that promote e-cigarette culture

A new student-led study from the University of Iowa College of Public Health examines the role that user-generated content on the social media platform TikTok plays in promoting Puff Bar culture. Puff Bar is a brand of disposable e-cigarette available in flavors that appeal to youth.
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Research / Grant - 2022 May 19

Igniting a passion for research and discovery

Undergraduate students at the University of Iowa not only have plentiful opportunities to work alongside faculty researchers, they make important contributions to science.
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Research / Grant - 2022 Jun 10

Hannah Zadeh: Demystifying the "black box" of medical research data

Hannah Zadeh, a first-year PhD student in the University of Iowa's Sociology and Criminology department, is already challenging people to rethink medical research's presumed impartiality. "I think we sometimes look at medical research and data as a sort of impenetrable black box," they explained, "and certainly it is very valuable, but it's also important I think to come at it in a lot of different ways critically." For Zadeh, that means delving into the biases behind seemingly objective clinical algorithms, especially as they relate to race.
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Research / Grant - 2022 May 11

Kendall Riley: Researching at the intersection of crime, deviance, and health

Sociology and Criminology graduate student, Kendall Riley, has witnessed firsthand the profound affects incarceration has on families while tutoring a child whose parents oscillated in and out of prison. She recognized how incarceration can drastically alter one's life trajectory, especially the lives of Black children and families. This experience pushed Riley into her current doctoral research where she explores how the legal system can affect a multitude of health outcomes.
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Research / Grant - 2022 May 11

Samantha Kruse: Finding the large impact of small materials

Samantha Kruse's research interests are incredibly specific, yet they promise large-scale impacts. A second-year graduate student in the University of Iowa's chemistry department, Kruse is researching how radiation impacts organic materials, or as she described it, "incorporat[ing] my two loves in the area of chemistry: organic solid-state chemistry and radio chemistry."
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Research / Grant - 2022 May 11

UI students, recent alumni awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

Nine University of Iowa students and recent graduates were named recipients of the highly-competitive Graduate Research Fellowship Program funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
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Research / Grant - 2022 May 11

Greta Becker: Heading to Vietnam on a Fulbright grant

Greta Becker, a Doctor of Medicine student at UI Carver College of Medicine, is the winner of a Fulbright Study/Research grant in Public Health to Vietnam for 2022-23.
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Research / Grant - 2022 Apr 29

Camellia Pham: Stanley Undergraduate Award for International Research recipient

Camellia Pham, a University of Iowa student graduating in May 2022 with a BA in comparative literature Asian languages and literature (Chinese) and a 2021 recipient of a Stanley Undergraduate Award for International Research to conduct research in China, took an unconventional, yet effective, path to completing her research project. Though COVID-19 impacted her plans to travel to China, she persevered and used resources both here at the university and connections abroad to conduct her research and utilize her findings when applying to PhD and master's programs across the country.
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Research / Grant - 2022 Apr 27

Anna Correa: Winner of Fulbright grant to study public health in India

Anna Correa, a graduate student who will receive a Master of Public Health in community and behavior health from the University of Iowa in May 2022, is the winner of a Fulbright Study/Research grant in Public Health to India for 2022-23.
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Research / Grant - 2022 Apr 27

McKenzie Toma: Fulbright-winning poet to study in Romania

McKenzie Toma is a winner of a Fulbright study/research grant in creative writing. She will travel to Romania after graduating with an MFA in creative writing (poetry) in May.
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Research / Grant - 2022 Mar 29

Jackson Russo: Creating new possibilities for treating chronic pain

Fourth-year pharmaceutics graduate student Jackson Russo sees poloxamers as an opportunity to more effectively treat chronic wounds like bedsores and diabetic ulcers.
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Research / Grant - 2021 Jun 7

Riley Troyer: Doctoral student helps describe new type of aurora

In a new study, physicists led by the University of Iowa report a new feature to Earth's atmospheric light show. Examining video taken nearly two decades ago, the researchers describe multiple instances where a section of the diffuse aurora-the faint, background-like glow accompanying the more vivid light commonly associated with auroras-goes dark, as if scrubbed by a giant blotter. Then, after a short period of time, the blacked-out section suddenly reappears.
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Research / Grant - 2021 May 13

Min Zhang: Mining consumer reviews for innovation gold

A soon-to-be published study co-authored by Min Zhang, graduate student in informatics, finds that companies can find ideas for innovative new products in the consumer review sections on e-commerce websites like Amazon. The review sections are essentially free focus groups where consumers can leave ideas for new or improved products, says Weiguo Fan, professor of business analytics in the University of Iowa Tippie College of Business and study co-author. Finding those nuggets of consumer wisdom can be a challenge, though. Few companies have the resources to sift through thousands of comments across dozens of e-commerce sites, only a small number of which offer any kind of information that could be used for product innovation.
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Research / Grant - 2020 Dec 4

Undergraduate research: Filtering Flint's backroom chatter

University of Iowa undergraduate students Terry Saul III and Hannah Zadeh are working with Iowa faculty and staff to increase the accessibility and usability of nearly a half-million pages of emails related to the Flint water crisis.
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Research / Grant - 2021 Apr 8

Tatiana Schlote-Bonne: Winner of the Speculative Literature Foundation's 2020 Diverse Worlds Grant

The Speculative Literature Foundation recently announced University of Iowa graduate student Tatiana Schlote-Bonne the winner of its 2020 Diverse Worlds Grant. Schlote-Bonne was honored for her work "The Afterlife Memoirs." She is a second year MFA candidate in the Nonfiction Writing Program inside Iowa's Department of English.
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Research / Grant - 2020 Dec 3

Danny Tallon: Supernova student

Danny Tallon is serious about space. After all, he'd love to go there. Tallon, an undergraduate physics major at the University of Iowa, studies supernovas, which are exploding stars hundreds of billions of light years from Earth. The junior from Mondamin, Iowa, is a published author on two scientific papers that describe the curious behavior of a type of supernova whose explosions defy what physicists think should be happening.
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Research / Grant - 2019 Mar 12
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