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How do SSRIs interact with maternal physiology and offspring neurodevelopment?

Monday, April 29, 2024
We are looking for an undergraduate or post-graduate volunteer laboratory intern to help complete projects related to the prenatal and gestational impacts of SSRI use. Students will have opportunities for data analysis, manuscript writing, and presenting. The Gumusoglu Lab is a welcoming, positive environment that encourages creativity, teamwork, and scientific development! Past lab members have gone on to graduate school, medical school, nursing school, dental school, and related training programs.

Anatomy and Physiology Instructor Position

Monday, April 29, 2024
The Department of Health & Human Physiology (HHP) is seeking an Instructor with a focus on Anatomy and Physiology. This is a full-time, non-tenure track appointment for one academic year beginning August 2024 and is renewable. Duties of this position include teaching a variety of introductory and advanced human physiology and anatomy laboratory courses within the Health and Human Physiology curriculum, with a primary focus on anatomy labs and physiology labs for majors and non-majors.

Visiting Chemistry Instructor Position

Monday, April 29, 2024
The Department of Chemistry at the University of Iowa invites applications for visiting instructor (VI) positions beginning August 2024.

Biology Instructor Position

Monday, April 29, 2024
The Department of Biology at the University of Iowa invites applications for a non-tenure, 75% visiting instructor position beginning August 21, 2024. This position will primarily contribute to instruction in the introductory biology curriculum lab sections for the life sciences, specifically Foundations of Biology and Diversity of Form and Function.

OUR Academic Year Research Fellowship Deadline Fast Approaching

Friday, April 19, 2024
Undergraduate research experiences are a great way to elevate your time at the University of Iowa. The program provides funding that allows current University of Iowa undergraduates in any discipline to work with UI faculty or Professional & Scientific staff mentors on a specific project during the academic year. Scholarship funding for selected applications is in the amount of $2,500 (for about 5-6 hours of work per week) during the school year.

SURF 2024 Photos

Thursday, April 11, 2024
The OUR was so happy to see over 160 undergraduate researchers presenting their work at the Spring Undergraduate Research Festival! We are so proud of the work that these students put in. Check out the photos to get a glimpse of the event!

OUR is Hiring for the Fall!

Wednesday, April 10, 2024
The Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR) is hiring! Currently, we are looking for student employees to assist with event coordination, social media, communications, and data entry. For more information click the title.

Latham Science Engagement Fellowship

Monday, April 8, 2024
Learn how to communicate science with this fellowship available to undergraduate researchers! The Latham Science Engagement Fellowship program is designed to enhance research opportunities and strengthen science outreach communication skills for selected undergraduate students. This fellowship is a one-year program, beginning in the fall of 2024. Students will take one 2 S.H. class per semester-- LATH:3000 and LATH:3001-- where they will learn communication skills and create final outreach projects.

Deep Learning Tasks for the Segmentation of 3D Regions of Interest from Medical Images (CT)

Tuesday, April 2, 2024
The Advanced Pulmonary Physiomic Imaging Lab is looking for undergraduate students to help with ongoing research at the interface of medical imaging and AI. The main tasks revolve around experimentation with hyperparameters and other settings in a given deep learning pipeline, developed in pytorch lightning/ MONAI. A baseline U-Net architecture is used as a reference for comparison, and some light development around it might be needed. Familiarity with Python and Deep Learning will be considered advantages. The segmentations from the deep learning pipeline are later used for downstream 3D visualization and shape analysis tasks.

Undergraduate Student Needed

Monday, April 1, 2024
The goal of Mangalam Lab is to develop better treatment options to cure multiple sclerosis (MS). We are looking for an undergraduate student to assist with general lab duties including cleaning, washing dishes, safety cabinet cleaning, etc. Other duties will be discussed based on availability.