| May News from OVPR | May brings a time to celebrate new beginnings for our campus community, often seen in the hustle and bustle surrounding commencement and students departing for the summer. For faculty and staff, the transition to summer can provide an opportunity for a renewed focus on research. Below, we offer tips to scholars who will be traveling abroad for their research, celebrate new faculty projects receiving support from OVPR funding, and preview changes coming with the next IRB efficiency initiative update. | | | | From Indian printmaking to AR-enhanced theater, explore six faculty projects across a range of fields that will move forward with support from OVPR's Arts and Humanities Initiative. | | | Review our checklist of considerations when working with foreign collaborators or conducting research or scholarly activities abroad. | | | | Learn about the next update, which will allow projects to receive IRB approval before Human Research Protection (HRPP) Committee approvals are complete. | | | Nominate an undergraduate, grad student, or postdoctoral researcher for the 2025 Dare to Discover downtown banner campaign. A first round of students will be selected in late June. | | | | Share your input about the next vice president for research with the search committee before the survey closes at 11 p.m, Wednesday, May 15. | | | Environmental Health and Safety recognized three staff members and two faculty-led teams for their efforts at keeping research spaces safe for everyone. | | | | AAALAC International, a private, nonprofit organization that promoting humane treatment of animals in science, continued its full accreditation of the university's research animal care and use program. | | 
As a part of the P3-funded Writing for the Public Good initiative, the University of Iowa is now an institutional member of The Conversation, an independent news organization dedicated to unlocking the knowledge of academic experts for the public good.
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By Charles O. Stanier, professor of chemical and biochemical engineering; Gregory Carmichael, professor of chemical and biochemical engineering; and Peter S. Thorne, University of Iowa Distinguished Chair and professor of environmental health
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"I certainly had no idea that these two spacecraft would continue to work for over 46 years and continue to send back critical scientific information from beyond the Sun’s extended atmosphere or heliosphere. The Voyagers are making the only in situ observations of the ‘stuff between the stars’ ever, and likely these won’t be made again for 3 decades or more."
William Kurth, research scientist/engineer in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, in the April 27 The Telegraph article, "Nasa engineers bring Voyager 1 back to life after interstellar glitch." Kurth has been a member of the Voyager team since 1974. | | | |
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