Alex Petrucci researches the cause of chronic epilepsy developed after a person has a viral infection. After graduating from the University of Iowa in December 2022, Petrucci is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Utah. Petrucci is the winner of the Graduate College’s 2023 Rex Montgomery Dissertation Prize Award.

Doctoral student Morgan DiCesare investigates caring relationships of trans people historically. As a result of this outstanding research, DiCesare is a recipient of the Graduate College’s 2023 Ballard and Seashore Dissertation Fellowship.

Carrie Schuettpelz received the grant for her forthcoming book The Indian Card. The Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant of $40,000 is awarded to writers in the process of finishing insightful and well-researched works of nonfiction.

UI doctoral candidate Prarthana Parepalli planned to present her dissertation in mechanical engineering a month ahead of the anticipated arrival of her second child. Mother Nature had other ideas.

Reed Zahradnik, who will graduate with an MS in business analytics, knew he wanted to work for a Major League Baseball team.

Second-year graduate student Francisco Javier Espinosa Momox was one of 22 winners of the Stanley Award for International Research this year.

David Ramotowski won this year’s Three Minute Thesis competition, in which graduate students share their research in three minutes or less to a general audience.

Grad student Drew Bonner helps arranges music, drills for the Hawkeye Marching Band.

Justin Torres was honored by the National Book Foundation for his novel Blackouts.

International Programs presented the award to Mohammad Sayeed Hossain and Nasrina Parvin, who were nominated by their son, Rezwan Mohammad Sayeed, a PhD candidate in the College of Engineering. Rezwan_Parents Mohammad Sayeed Hossain and Nasrina Parvin