University of Iowa

Four undergraduate students in the Tippie College of Business recently won a national business analytics competition.

University of Iowa PhD student Riley Post hopes his research changes the way we fight floods Post was named the winner of this year's Three Minute Thesis competition (3MT), a university-wide contest that tasks graduate students with relating their research in three minutes or less to a general audience.

Three University of Iowa College of Public Health students recently competed in a MHA case competition featuring teams from accredited public health programs from around the country.

14 students have been named finalists in the University of Iowa's annual Three Minute thesis competition. The Three Minute Thesis (3MT) is a research communication competition that challenges graduate students to clearly and concisely articulate complex research to non-specialist audiences. Contestants represent a diverse array of disciplines and areas of study and reflect the passion and thirst for discovery common among all of Iowa's graduate students.

Moala Keshei Bannavti has firsthand experience with PCBs in schools. "I grew up in a town with a lot of underrepresented minorities, and we were all from low-income families," she says. She and her classmates went to an old school with air that likely had high levels of polychlorinated biphenyl (PCBs), an invisible but common compound that she didn't realize can cause an array of health problems until she became a graduate student at the Iowa College of Engineering. "They can cause cancer, disrupt hormones, they're just horrible, and they're found in the air everywhere," she says. To help schools identify and inexpensively remove materials that cause PCBs from their older buildings, Keshei Bannavti is developing a targeted materials-remediation plan as a civil and environmental engineering doctoral student. The research captured first place in the Graduate College's annual Three Minute Thesis competition earlier this month. The 3MT competition helps graduate students learn how to articulate their often complex and complicated research to non-experts clearly and concisely in three minutes or less. That isn't always easy for grad students, most of whom have been taught to go into great depth and speak with a certain language that a non-academic, and sometimes even an academic from another field, may not understand.

Kody Waldstein has been named a finalist in the University of Iowa's annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. The 3MT competition is organized by Iowa's Graduate College and challenges graduate students to clearly and concisely articulate complex research to non-specialist audiences.

Stephanie Peterson has been named a finalist in the University of Iowa's annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. The 3MT competition is organized by Iowa's Graduate College and challenges graduate students to clearly and concisely articulate complex research to non-specialist audiences.

Mariam El-Hattab has been named a finalist in the University of Iowa's annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. The 3MT competition is organized by Iowa's Graduate College and challenges graduate students to clearly and concisely articulate complex research to non-specialist audiences.

Megan Lindmark has been named a finalist in the University of Iowa's annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. The 3MT competition is organized by Iowa's Graduate College and challenges graduate students to clearly and concisely articulate complex research to non-specialist audiences.

Moala Keshei Bannavti has been named a finalist in the University of Iowa's annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. The 3MT competition is organized by Iowa's Graduate College and challenges graduate students to clearly and concisely articulate complex research to non-specialist audiences.

Ivy Debreceni has been named a finalist in the University of Iowa's annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. The 3MT competition is organized by Iowa's Graduate College and challenges graduate students to clearly and concisely articulate complex research to non-specialist audiences.

Emily Wieder has been named a finalist in the University of Iowa's annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. The 3MT competition is organized by Iowa's Graduate College and challenges graduate students to clearly and concisely articulate complex research to non-specialist audiences.

Megan Small has been named a finalist in the University of Iowa's annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. The 3MT competition is organized by Iowa's Graduate College and challenges graduate students to clearly and concisely articulate complex research to non-specialist audiences.

Alyssa Mianecki has been named a finalist in the University of Iowa's annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. The 3MT competition is organized by Iowa's Graduate College and challenges graduate students to clearly and concisely articulate complex research to non-specialist audiences.

Clarissa Shaw has been named a finalist in the University of Iowa's annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. The 3MT competition is organized by Iowa's Graduate College and challenges graduate students to clearly and concisely articulate complex research to non-specialist audiences.

Runqing Qi has been named a finalist in the University of Iowa's annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. The 3MT competition is organized by Iowa's Graduate College and challenges graduate students to clearly and concisely articulate complex research to non-specialist audiences.

Nyema Harmon has been named a finalist in the University of Iowa's annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. The 3MT competition is organized by Iowa's Graduate College and challenges graduate students to clearly and concisely articulate complex research to non-specialist audiences.

Elmira Jangjou has been named a finalist in the University of Iowa's annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. The 3MT competition is organized by Iowa's Graduate College and challenges graduate students to clearly and concisely articulate complex research to non-specialist audiences.

The Homecoming Court for the University of Iowa's celebration of Homecoming 2020 has been announced as this year's events and activities -- which will be dominated by virtual activities -- rapidly approaches. The honorees were selected on a variety of criteria including, most notably, there involvement in university activities and organizations, academic pursuits, interersts, and achievement, leadership, and their service to the community.

A collaboration between the University of Iowa 3D Design team and Department of Theatre Arts that included nine undergraduate and graduate students won top honors in CONNECT, the design school competition at the 2019 Sculpture Objects Functional Art and Design (SOFA) Fair staged in late October 2019 in Chicago.

In April, the University of Iowa's John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center (Iowa JPEC) in the Tippie College of Business partnered with the UI's Office of the Vice President for Research, University of Iowa Research Foundation, and UI Ventures to host the second phase of the Iowa Innovation Challenge. The second phase of the Challenge was business model canvas (BMC) pitch competition. A total of 52 UI businesses applied to compete in the business model competition. Thirty-six were selected as finalists to compete virtually due to COVID-19. In a separate division of the Challenge, University of Iowa alumni, Venture School alumni, and UI business consulting clients were invited to submit a 60-second video and an executive summary of their business. Thirty-seven submission were received.

As an archaeologist, Christie Vogler says it's important for people to have a true picture of what she does for a living. "Archaeologists are fantasized and represented in media in ways that are not very accurate," says the University of Iowa doctoral candidate in Classical archaeology. Too often, she says, the traditional portrayal of an archaeologist's life is one of swashbuckling adventure, a la Indiana Jones. While her professional life is often an adventure, it's rarely swashbuckling. "It's important to explain to people what it's really like," says Vogler. To help change peoples' perceptions of her field, Vogler participated in this year's Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. The annual event, sponsored by the UI Graduate College, encourages graduate students to learn how to clearly and concisely articulate their research to non-specialist audiences by explaining what they do in three minutes or less.

A collaboration between the University of Iowa 3D Design team and Department of Theatre Arts that included nine undergraduate and graduate students won top honors in CONNECT, the design school competition at the 2019 Sculpture Objects Functional Art and Design (SOFA) Fair staged in late October 2019 in Chicago.

University of Iowa students recently creatively addressed an existing critical global health challenge in the UI's annual IIPHRP Global Public Health Case Competition, an activity of the nationally ranked University of Iowa's College of Public Health. The competition offers an innovative student learning experience that adds to the education and training of future public health leaders. It is structured similar to that of a business school case competition where student teams formulate recommendations for business-oriented problems.

The University of Iowa is often regarded as "The Writing University" because of its world-renowned Iowa Writers' Workshop, but an appreciation and commitment to great writing is evident across the entire UI campus-including the Carver College of Medicine. The college's Writing and Humanities Program offers elective courses and activities that focus on the humanistic and creative aspects of medicine and medical education. The program also provides consultation and assistance to students preparing their written personal statements for residency interviews or developing research papers or abstracts. The Writing and Humanities Program also oversees the Humanities Distinction Track, which is designed to encourage and support students interested in scholarship and learning opportunities in creative writing, philosophy, visual arts, social sciences, and related topics. This fall, with the support of an anonymous donor's gift, the Carver College of Medicine held a poetry competition for students in the MD, PT (physical therapy), and PA (physician assistant) programs. Three of the competition's entrants were honored Oct. 17 at the college's annual scholarship luncheon. First-place ($400), second-place ($300), and third-place ($200) scholarship prizes were awarded and will be applied to the students' tuition, fees, or academic travel.

University of Iowa students were recently singled out for "bringing ideas to life" as members of teams competing in the annual Iowa Startup Games, an activity of the John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center. The Iowa Startup Games is a three-day event where students from all areas of study pitch their ideas to have an impact. After a student pitches, teams are formed and work together to bring the best ideas to life. By the end of the third day, each team will have had the opportunity to make their four-minute pitch to a group of panelists for a chance to win cash prizes.

University of Iowa students were recently singled out for "bringing ideas to life" as members of teams competing in the annual Iowa Startup Games, an activity of the John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center. The Iowa Startup Games is a three-day event where students from all areas of study pitch their ideas to have an impact. After a student pitches, teams are formed and work together to bring the best ideas to life. By the end of the third day, each team will have had the opportunity to make their four-minute pitch to a group of panelists for a chance to win cash prizes.

Jaison Marks, a master's student in both the University of Iowa's Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering and the UI Department of Finance recently won $25,000 in the annual Pappajohn Iowa Entrepreneurial Venture competition to help fund transformational change to the management of posttraumatic osteoarthritis (PTOA), a debilitating medical condition that is typically managed by clinicians symptomatically, meaning that care is only targeted at managing symptoms and not treating the underlying cause of the disease.

Jordan Zuniga, a 2019 graduate of the University of Iowa School of Journalism and Mass Communications, recently placed among the Top 20 in the personality/profile category of the 59th annual William Randolph Hearst Foundation's Journalism Awards Program.

These students made it through the first round of the Frontier-Tippie Impact Competition, where three teams strategized and developed a plan to create positive change at the Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa and/or surrounding community.