Starting on August 1, 2020, a two-step login process will be required to access several electronic research administration services, including: UIRIS, eIACUC, eCOI, HawkIRB, eIBC, eDSP, and myPortal. This change is a part of an ongoing effort to enhance security on campus. Two-step login uses two-factor authentication to help verify the identity of the individual who logs in to a UI system. ITS...

Research funding at the University of Iowa in Fiscal Year 2020 is helping power a wide array of investigations into everything from COVID-19 and diabetes treatments, to depression, papermaking, and the poetry of Walt Whitman. [Related: Record funding fuels research into COVID-19, writing and other areas of UI strengths] Nicholas Mohr, professor of emergency medicine, anesthesia, and epidemiology...

In a twist on the saying about life and lemons, University of Iowa researchers have trained their collective expertise on understanding and neutralizing the dangers COVID-19 poses to human health and society even as the pandemic has kept many of them away from campus for months in the interest of health and safety. From testing novel treatments in a clinical setting, to creating unique mouse...

The State Hygienic Laboratory at the University of Iowa (SHL) is cross-training staff and operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week to meet testing demands. Since March, the scientists and administrators at the SHL have overcome numerous challenges to provide rapid, high-volume testing to slow the spread of COVID-19 in Iowa. The lab needed to rapidly ramp up its staffing, navigate shifting...

Test Iowa reached a milestone today: 100,000 tests have been conducted, all by the State Hygienic Lab (SHL) at the University of Iowa, since the program began on April 25. Gov. Kim Reynolds issued a statement to announce the test numbers. “In the face of a global pandemic, we had to be bold, ambitious, and move quickly to launch a comprehensive initiative to combat the spread of COVID-19 in Iowa...

Practicing safety in University of Iowa laboratories has never been more pertinent than it is today, in the midst of a global pandemic. As the university begins to transition back to campus for work, the Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) office is looking for examples of faculty and staff who are putting safety first in innovative ways. EHS is offering an award to formally recognize those who...

The Iowa Board of Regents and the University of Iowa recognized the professional achievements of Cori Peek-Asa, Wendy Beaver, and Julie Cunningham. “I am proud to work alongside these professionals, and even prouder of their tremendous contributions to sustaining and expanding the research enterprise at the University of Iowa,” said Marty Scholtz, vice president for research. “Cori, Wendy, and...

The University of Iowa Office of the Vice President for Research has launched a new Website to help guide researchers, scholars, and creative artists as they begin to return to campus during the COVID-19 outbreak.

The University of Iowa Office of the Vice President for Research has launched a new Website to help guide faculty, staff, and student researchers, scholars, and creative artists as they ramp up activities on campus. Click here to access the site. This site supersedes the ramp-down Website, though that site will remain live for the time being. In addition to the Website, OVPR sends out an...

The following message from Vice President for Research Marty Scholtz was shared with campus on Wednesday, May 27, 2020. Research and scholarship are foundational missions of the University of Iowa, and we are very impressed with your resiliency, determination and perseverance during the last two months as we have been away from our campus. I know many of you are understandably anxious to return to...