Maximizing Pivot to Find Funding and Collaborators (December 2025)
Do you want to maximize your time spent searching for funding opportunities or potential project collaborators? Join us to learn how Pivot can save you time and effort in identifying the right funding opportunities for your research lines as well as identifying collaborators with the relevant expertise.
Register here. The RDO will send a calendar invitation and Zoom link upon registration.
NSF CAREER Recent Awardee Panel Session
NIH K Award Recent Awardee Panel Session
Thinking about applying to the NIH K Award program? Want to learn more about this funding opportunity and hear from previous awardees? Then this panel session is for you!
Event Information
The Research Development Office is hosting a virtual NIH K Award panel session on Thursday, January 8, 2026 from 11am-12pm. This panel session will provide an opportunity to hear from recently accomplished K Award recipients regarding their experience with the application process, need-to-know information, plus...
Still Here: Helping Students Develop Strong Writing Skills Despite (and maybe even with the help of) Generative AI Tools
Reducing Iowa’s Cancer Risk through Novel Collaborations Ideas Lab
The University of Iowa Research Development Office and Implementation Science Center are sponsoring a three-day Ideas Lab on Reducing Iowa’s Cancer Risk through Novel Collaborations on January 12-14, 2026. This in-person event will be hosted at the Terry Trueblood Park Lodge. See the webpage for additional details.
Ideas Lab Objective
The objective of this Ideas Lab is to develop novel and exciting proposals for interdisciplinary research that will generate (a) strategies for integrating precision...
Maximizing Pivot to Find Funding and Collaborators (January 2026)
Do you want to maximize your time spent searching for funding opportunities or potential project collaborators? Join us to learn how Pivot can save you time and effort in identifying the right funding opportunities for your research lines as well as identifying collaborators with the relevant expertise.
Register here. The RDO will send a calendar invitation and Zoom link upon registration.
ARIS Research Impacts (aka Broader Impacts) Seminar
The National Science Foundation (NSF) considers two criteria in their review of proposals: intellectual merit and broader impacts (BI). Broader impacts relate to how the proposed research will “benefit society or advance desired societal outcomes” and is increasingly used as the differentiator between which excellent proposals to fund or not.
The Training Team from the NSF-supported Advancing Research Impact in Society (ARIS) organization will conduct one in-person interactive workshop on Thursda...
Maximizing Pivot to Find Funding and Collaborators (February 2026)
Do you want to maximize your time spent searching for funding opportunities or potential project collaborators? Join us to learn how Pivot can save you time and effort in identifying the right funding opportunities for your research lines as well as identifying collaborators with the relevant expertise.
Register here. The RDO will send a calendar invitation and Zoom link upon registration.
Maximizing Pivot to Find Funding and Collaborators (March 2026)
Do you want to maximize your time spent searching for funding opportunities or potential project collaborators? Join us to learn how Pivot can save you time and effort in identifying the right funding opportunities for your research lines as well as identifying collaborators with the relevant expertise.
Register here. The RDO will send a calendar invitation with room location upon registration.
Cultivating Rurality: Building Community around Rural Research — 2025–26 Obermann Symposium
Directed by Brian R. Farrell, Daria Fisher Page, and Ryan T. Sakoda (UI College of Law), Cultivating Rurality: Building Community around Rural Research will bring together scholars, community leaders from across the U.S., and professionals who work with rural populations and in rural spaces. During the symposium, attendees will be invited to collaborate in theorizing rurality, share how it impacts their work, examine how rurality is represented and celebrated, and begin to discuss challenges...