Because of the proclamation by Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds on 11/16/2020, and the need to reassign clinically trained research staff to clinical responsibilities, in-person research visits in UI Hospitals & Clinics facilities that are not essential to a participant's health and/or well-being should be postponed until further notice.

Phase 3 activities include, but are not limited to, requirements for entering and working in the animal facilities (unchanged), return to standard weekly animal orders (100%), return to use of IACUC approved satellite housing locations, limited facility training tours and labs (unchanged), as well as limitations on animal facility access by undergraduate students.

University of Iowa scholars and artists, along with community partners, share their perspectives on the pandemic through the lenses of their areas of expertise in a series of video interviews conducted by the Obermann Center for Advance Studies. 

To facilitate a phased return to campus, the University of Iowa instituted a pilot program involving research and the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics to test health and safety protocols. Over the past two months, the pilots involving the two departments have successfully tested elements of the UI’s return to campus plan.

 Several additional buildings are reopening to allow a limited number of faculty who have a compelling need to work on campus, part of Phase 3 of the University of Iowa’s research ramp-up.

The Office of the Vice President for Research and the Human Subjects Office are providing updated guidance related to Stage 3 of the resumption of human subjects-related research visits.

The University of Iowa Office of the Vice President for Research is announcing plans for Phase 2 of the research ramp up effort, following the Phase 1 restart of research in Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine buildings.

Video is available (HawkID required) for the Tuesday, June 2, researcher town hall, during which University of Iowa Vice President for Research Marty Scholtz provided an update on the ramp-up of activities on campus. 

Vice President for Research Marty Scholtz provided more details about the first phase of restarting research activities on campus, starting with a pilot project involving laboratories in the Carver College of Medicine.