Peter K. Dorhout from Kansas State University has been named vice president for research (VPR) at Iowa State University. Dorhout, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and former president of the American Chemical Society, currently serves as VPR and professor of chemistry at Kansas State. He will begin his tenure…
The search for Iowa State’s next vice president for research will resume this month with visits from two remaining finalists. Shashank Priya, associate vice president for research at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, and the first finalist, completed his campus interview in March before the search was paused due to COVID-19. The second finalist will visit campus…
Effective July 1, Iowa State University’s Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) will debut a newly formed Office of Research Ethics (ORE), merging and replacing its former Office for Responsible Research and Office of Research Integrity. Until this point, the Office for Responsible Research (ORR) and the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) functioned…
Senior vice president and provost Jonathan Wickert announced this week that Guru Rao will serve as interim vice president for research (VPR), effective July 1. Rao, who serves as associate VPR and professor in the Roy J. Carver department of biochemistry, biophysics and molecular biology (BBMB), will succeed Sarah Nusser, who announced last September her…
Iowa State University’s fourth annual Research Day has been canceled as part of an ongoing university-wide effort to prepare for and prevent the spread of COVID-19. Earlier this week, university leadership announced a recommendation to postpone or cancel large events scheduled to take place on campus between March 23 and April 3. This includes Research Day, which typically…
Four finalists have been identified in the search for the next vice president for research. They will visit campus in the coming weeks: Shashank Priya, March 9-10 Candidate 2, March 23-24 Candidate 3, March 26-27 Candidate 4, April 2-3 Each candidate will be announced one business day before their visit. During the interview, candidates will…
Vice president for research Sarah Nusser presented new research priorities and looked back on a successful year during the Faculty Senate’s Oct. 15 meeting. The Research Leadership Council — a group that includes associate deans, members of ISU Extension and Outreach, Ames Laboratory, government relations and others that represent different parts of the research mission…
Iowa State has launched the search for its next vice president for research (VPR). The successful candidate will succeed Sarah Nusser, who recently announced that she would complete her service as VPR at the end of the fiscal year. “Iowa State is one of America’s leading research universities, so we expect the position will be…
Sarah Nusser has announced she will complete her service as Iowa State’s vice president for research (VPR) at the end of the current fiscal year. Nusser, a professor of statistics, has served as VPR since February 2014, and earned reappointment earlier this year. During her tenure, she increased the university’s external research funding, including a…
Iowa State attracted $469 million of total external funding for the 2019 fiscal year, which included a record $260.9 million for research conducted at the university, surpassing the previous record of $252.5 million set in the 2016 fiscal year.
