NSF GRFP recipient, Kendall Riley, plans to use GRFP funds to focus on research, gain tangible research skills, and create a mentorship program to help undergraduate students understand research and apply for graduate school.

For recent Higher Education and Student Affairs graduate, Dr. Molly Hall-Martin (Kul Wicasa Oyate/Lower Brule Lakota), students are at the center of everything she does, and they should be at the center of higher education policy.

Samantha Kruse, a second-year Chemistry graduate student and a 2022 NSF GRFP recipient, studies how radiation impacts organic materials.

Hannah Zadeh, a first-year Sociology and Criminology PhD student and a 2022 NSF GRFP recipient, is challenging people to rethink medical research’s presumed impartiality.

Heidi Arbisi-Kelm received an Excellence and Innovation in Graduate Education Honorable Mention at the 2022 MAGS Excellence in Teaching Awards. 

Higher Education and Student Affairs graduate student is making a difference by studying these issues on college campuses.

Lauren Coghlan's book will represent different games and assigned emotions.

Assistant dean is the third-ever recipient of the prestigious award, which she received for her contributions to the UI Graduate College community.

Maya Mahony, an MFA student in fiction at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, has been passionate about immigration justice for quite some time, and those themes find their way into her stories.

When Karina Kruth moved to Iowa in 2009 to pursue a PhD in biochemistry, she did so with the intention of ultimately pursuing a career in patent law. Instead, she “stumbled across a life passion.”