Christopher Merrill, director of the International Writing Program, and Dominika Słowik, 2021 fall resident, speak on the benefits and perspectives that Iowa’s International Writing Program provides.
From engineering to chemistry, Jonathon Culpepper, NSF-GRFP Fellow and GEM Consortium Institution Fellow, uses his expertise in metals to improve human health.
Darcy Metcalfe, winner of the 2021 Spriesterbach Prize in the Humanities and Fine Arts division, aims to bring awareness to the health disparities in the medical field through her research in biomedical ethics.
Bernice Kubicek, a PhD student in electrical and computer engineering, is
studying active sonar target classification, with the ultimate intention of helping the Navy identify foreign objects in the ocean.
The program has raised more than $2.29 of the $2.5 million needed by Dec. 31, 2021, to receive the matching funds from the Windgate Charitable Foundation.
Benton Purnell describes his work at the University of Iowa as “looking for clues at the scene of the crime.” When he was a graduate student in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Neuroscience, Purnell studied Sudden Unexplained Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP), a diagnosis defined by a lack of answers.
A University of Iowa Technology Institute graduate student focused on preventing blindness in patients with age-related macular degeneration is getting first-hand experience with clinicians.
