Articles from August 2018

A Leader in Competitive Research

Monday, August 20, 2018
A record six University of Iowa graduate students received National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships, starting in the 2018-19 academic year.

U2G student establishes Global Food Project

Tuesday, August 14, 2018
Written by
John Riehl
Ayman Sharif was looking for a unique educational opportunity when he left the Middle East in 2013, and he found just that in Iowa City—the home of the University of Iowa. The 52-year-old Sharif is taking advantage of the University of Iowa’s Undergraduate-to-Graduate (U2G) program in the School...

Alumni giving back

Tuesday, August 14, 2018
Johnathan Gajdos gives back to UI in more ways than one after earning his Ph.D. in German.

New ways of crafting a thesis

Monday, August 13, 2018
There's a strong movement in graduate education to re-think the narrative format of the traditional thesis. The University of Iowa School of Music's DMA thesis recording option is an example how the narrative thesis is changing to a digital thesis.
Sharon Idiga smiles into the camera outside of a building

Research Reaching the Community

Sunday, August 12, 2018
The Three Minute Thesis (3MT) challenges graduate students to communicate their research in three minutes or less in non-specialist language.
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