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Global Health Studies Director Mariola Espinosa featured on Obermann Center's "Pandemic Insights"

Saturday, April 4, 2020
Mariola Espinosa, Global Health Studies Program Director, reflects on her work studying the history of yellow fever and other viral outbreaks in the Caribbean.

Global Innovation Conference (April 4-5, 2020) now completely virtual

Tuesday, March 10, 2020
The Global Health & Innovation Conference, is the world's leading and largest global health conference and the largest social entrepreneurship conference.
Picture of Waltraud Maierhofer and students

GHS Professor Waltraud Maierhofer receives a DSHB Faculty Scholar Award

Monday, February 10, 2020
The Developmental Sciences Hybridoma Bank (DSHB) Awards provide support to tenured CLAS faculty for an approved research project within the humanities.

Mackenzie Cross, Anthropology undergraduate student, featured in UI 'Dare to' series: Traces umami receptors

Mackenzie Cross talks about her research on umami receptors to better understand humans’ relationship with meat throughout human evolution.

Christie Vogler, Anthropology PhD student, featured in UI 'Dare to' series: Excavates Roman History

Christie Vogler talks about her research on occupational roles available to women during the High Roman Empire.

Global Health Studies Majors, Naomi Marroquin and Emma Sillman, Showcased in the UI "Dare to Discover" Campaign

Wednesday, January 1, 2020
Two Global Health Studies Majors, Naomi Marroquin and Emma Sillman, are showcased in the Dare to Discover campaign and have banners highlighting their research on Washington Street in downtown Iowa City.

Ciochon's research team helps determine age for last known Homo erectus fossils

Scientists were unable to agree on a precise time period for when Homo erectus vanished from Ngandong, on the Indonesian island of Java—until now.

EURA 2019-2020 Recipient: Mackenzie Cross

Monday, December 2, 2019
Anthropology student Mackenzie Cross is an Iowa Center for Research by Undergraduates EURA 2019-2020 Recipient.

Meena Khandelwal awarded the FY20 Provost’s Global Forum Award

Wednesday, September 4, 2019
Meena Khandelwal (with Fred Smith, Religious Studies) has been awarded the FY20 Provost’s Global Forum Award funded by the Stanley-UI Foundation Support Organization for their proposal "The Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi at 150: Nonviolence, Race, and Politics."