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UI researchers receive $2M NSF award to use advanced computing methods to improve drug development

UI researchers received a $2 million NSF grant to develop an advanced computing framework to accelerate the design and manufacture of effective tablet medications.

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Gerke, Pezzulo awarded five-year $3.8M grant to research environmental factors in sarcoidosis

UI researchers Alicia Gerke and Alejandro Pezzulo were awarded a $3.8 million NIH grant to investigate how household airborne particles drive the progression of pulmonary sarcoidosis.

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Gittler receives 2026 Person of Character Award

UI law professor Josephine Gittler received the 2026 Iowa Character Award for her lifelong advocacy for vulnerable populations and leadership in advancing statewide civic education.

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Anya Prince, the David H. Vernon Professor in Law at the UI College of Law, was featured in a Wall Street Journal article that assessed whether life insurance companies can use genetic-testing information in underwriting.

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Michael Pentella, clinical professor at the UI's College of Public Health, shares what health experts are eating and offers tips to lower the risk of contamination with fruits and vegetables.

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New York Times

Ed Wasserman, an experimental psychologist at the University of Iowa, was recently asked for his comments on a new study showing monkeys understand shapes the same way humans do.

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Merrill named 2026 Paul Engle Prize Winner