Rachel Crawford, graduate student in the College of Pharmacy, is making a name for herself in the field of toxicology.

David Ramotowski is a Ph.D. candidate in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Iowa.

Through experimental filmmaking, MFA student Getong Wang creates a dialogue between the labor, political, and ancient spiritual history of his hometown in China.

Mainul Islam, a doctoral student in the School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability, uses geospatial remote sensing technologies to measure the scale, severity, and distribution of bur oak blight.

Sidney Atkins, a senior at the University of Iowa and a student web assistant at the Graduate College, began his fourth year as a camp counselor, while also volunteering as camp treasurer for Camp Kesem’s only Iowa Chapter.

The 2025 D.C. Spriestersbach Dissertation Prize winners were Dr. Myat Thinzar Aung, an art history student, and Dr. Katelyn Joyal, a neuroscience student. These two students were recognized for their exemplary work in their respective fields.

Second-year PhD student Nuzhat Nuari Khan Rivu uses mathematical models to understand real-world health impacts. She has a long history of examining the effects of treatments on disease spread, and now she's turning her attention to the body itself.

Iowa neuroscience PhD student Chiara Borrelli finds that patients with heart failure are super sensitive to carbon dioxide.

As a recipient of the Stanley Award for International Research, second-year doctoral student Shannon Casey traveled this summer to excavate ceramic material at Agroal, an archaeological site in central Portugal.

After spending the last 23 years as a professor in the University of Iowa’s College of Education, Dr. Saba R. Ali became interim dean and associate provost of the Graduate College this summer.