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Scholarship Recipients 25-26

Celebrating 2025-26 Scholarship Award Recipients

Friday, September 19, 2025
The University of Iowa Department of Computer Science recognizes this academic year’s scholarship recipients: José Valladolid - Frank A. Scholarship, Eric Lucas - Arthur A. Collins Scholarship, Gabriel Postacchini - Arthur A. Collins Scholarship, Chloe Ladines - Principle Scholars Award Kira Semmens - David Sprang Award, Nguyen Trung - Gerard Weeg Scholarship, Kristin To - Jason & Leslie Weber Scholarship for Women, Ben Kleiman - Jason and Leslie Weber Emerging Technologies Scholarship (UG or G), Aditya Mukundan - Jason and Leslie Weber Emerging Technologies Scholarship (UG or G), Isabelle Paulsen - Barkermeier Trice 2025-26, Willian Pixley - Barkermeier Trice 2025-26, Mitchell Piehl - Sheets Fellowship 2025-26, Jiandong (Arnold) Yu - CS Outstanding TA Award 2024-25, Lawrence Deng - Academic Excellence in the MCS 2024-25.
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Arnold Yu Named 2024-25 Computer Science Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awardee

Friday, September 19, 2025
Learn more about Jiadong (Arnold) Yu receiving the 2024-25 Computer Science Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.
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Lawrence Deng Named Academic Excellence in the MCS 2024-25

Friday, September 19, 2025
Learn more about Lawrence Deng receiving the Academic Excellence in the MCS 2024-25 Award.
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IowaNow: Prof. Morris awarded $1.2 million to unify how researchers share and reuse proofs

Wednesday, September 3, 2025
J. Garrett Morris, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, is the lead investigator on the four-year project, the goal of which is to improve how researchers verify complex ideas in mathematics and programming languages. In particular, Morris’ research focuses on creating a framework that makes it easier to understand and computerize the structure of proofs and logical rules used in any other setting.
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Hubers awarded Dissertation Fall'25 Fellowship

Friday, August 29, 2025
PhD candidate Alex Hubers (CS - 5th year) was awarded a Ballard and Seashore Dissertation Fellowship for Fall 2025.
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2025 REU Researcher Experiences

Monday, August 25, 2025
Learn more about our undergraduate researchers who took part in this summer's REU program answer some questions about recent research and share valuable insights.
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CS Students Awarded Fall'25 Fellowships

Monday, August 25, 2025
Learn more about the recipients of the Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship for Fall 2025.
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2025 REU Program Wrap-up

Monday, August 25, 2025
The May 26- August 2, 2025 event brought together undergraduate students from all over the nation. We are proud to have assembled, in Iowa City, the ISU and Uiowa Symposium for REU 2025.
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Informatics at IDC 2025

Thursday, August 7, 2025
Learn more about the UIowaCS Informatics cohort's experience at the IDC 2025 Iceland conference.
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Hankyu Jang (PhD '23) Alumnus Q&A

Wednesday, July 23, 2025
Hankyu Jang graduated with a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Iowa in 2023. In this Q&A, Jang discusses his current role as a applied scientist at Apple, shares memories from his time at Iowa, and more!