Project: Biodesign and Innovation Program
Recipient: University of Iowa
101 Jessup Hall
Iowa City, IA 52242
Amount Requested: $1,712,025
This request would fund a program that brings together basic and clinical research, experiential learning, business and legal training, and outreach and public engagement in the area of biomedical device design. This program seeks to improve human health and stimulate economic development through biomedical device invention and innovation, and to commercialize these new creations through licensing and new business formation. The Iowa Biodesign and Innovation Program can become a national resource to take innovative ideas from the research lab to commercialization. This project will provide support for high-quality jobs. In the long run, this project will generate revenue and jobs for Iowa from new inventions and business start-ups and corporate recruitment in an emerging employment sector.
Project: Coe College Environmental Sustainability Project
Recipient: Coe College
1220 First Avenue NE
Cedar Rapids, IA 52402
Amount Requested: $619,500
This request would fund enhancement of the environmental science program to study local environmental issues and establish an interdisciplinary environmental studies program. Coe currently has a rigorous environmental science program that plays a significant role in studying the environment in eastern Iowa. With the requested funds, Coe seeks to become a resource for the larger community, particularly in light of the flood of 2008, which focused local attention on water and energy issues. Students attending the enhanced environmental science program will have advanced, hands-on, applicable experience that will make them extremely competitive in the high-growth job market for trained environmental science professionals.
Project: Equipping the Dental Training Laboratory at Indian Hills Community College – Indian Hills Community College
Recipient: Indian Hills Community College
525 Grandview Avenue
Ottumwa, IA 52501
Amount Requested: $434,255
The funding requested would provide the necessary equipment to establish a training laboratory which would allow Indian Hills Community College to offer a Dental Assisting Program and a Dental Hygienist Program in the Rural Health Education Center at the Ottumwa Campus of Indian Hills Community College. There is a dire need for Dental Assistants and Dental Hygienists throughout the state of Iowa, and the need is magnified in the rural southern Iowa region, where training opportunities in these fields do not exist. This program would train workers for high-paying jobs in Iowa in a demonstrated shortage job field.
Project: Institute for Intercultural Competency
Recipient: University of Iowa
105 Jessup Hall
Iowa City, Iowa 52242
Amount Requested: $315,957
This funding would be used to establish an Institute for Intercultural Competency at the University of Iowa. The Institute would be a centralized, interdisciplinary initiative that will consider issues such as race and ethnicity; nationality; gender; socio-economic status; and religion in both global and domestic contexts. It would provide high quality and innovative training and educational resources to the University community, including administrators, faculty, staff, and students. It would also be used to develop a model that can be adapted for use at other academic institutions. The Institute would provide international students studying at the University of Iowa with the opportunity to learn about diversity within a democracy as well as to provide American students with the opportunity to increase their understanding of global diversity. By training University staff in matters of cultural diversity, it will help the University of Iowa to retain a diverse student body. By providing students with knowledge of global diversity, it will increase their ability to compete successfully in a 21st century global economy. It will also help Iowa to increase its competitive edge in attracting businesses and investments to the state.
Project: Institute for Twice-Exceptionality
Recipient: University of Iowa
101 Jessup Hall
Iowa City, IA 52242
Amount Requested: $780,000
This request would fund the activities of the Institute for Twice Exceptionality, including comprehensive assessments for twice-exceptional students; professional training institutes for psychologists and educators who work with twice-exceptional students; training of future psychologists specializing in twice-exceptional students; national dissemination of information on twice-exceptional students; and research and evaluation on intervention methods for twice-exceptional students. This Center has made Iowa a national leader in research and best practice development for twice-exceptional students, a growing and under-identified subgroup of learners.
Project: Mobile Career Counseling Clinic
Recipient: University of Iowa
101 Jessup Hall
Iowa City, IA 52242
Amount Requested: $3,000,000
With the requested funds, the University of Iowa would deliver health science educational pipeline programming in Iowa’s elementary and secondary schools in an effort to diversify and increase the health workforce in Iowa. This is crucial in a state where over 70 percent of counties are designated by the federal government as having health care workforce shortages. This project is anticipated to create or retain jobs in the short term while contributing to long-term workforce development in the fast-growing health care field.
Project: Muscatine Community College Community Learning Centers
Recipient: Muscatine Community College
152 Colorado Street
Muscatine, IA 52761
Amount Requested: $1,200,000
The regional Community Learning Centers that would be funded by this request will leverage future economic development, education, and job training options for the next generation of workers graduating from Muscatine Community College. The Centers will be located in the towns of Wilton (Cedar County), West Liberty (Muscatine County) and Columbus Junction (Louisa County). The Centers will provide a career academy in manufacturing, a regional alternative high school, a short-term workforce development program, and business incubator sites. The centers will also provide continuing education. At a time of historic unemployment these centers are an investment that will increase job growth and create a highly trained workforce in Iowa.
Project: National Center for Advanced Biomedical Imaging
Recipient: University of Iowa
101 Jessup Hall
Iowa City, IA 52242
Amount Requested: $10,000,000
This Center would provide facilities and image analysis tools for research and comparative studies of biomedical imaging. This imaging investment can be translated directly into more cost‐effective, individual image‐based, personalized medicine for Iowa and the nation. Medical imaging has the potential to non‐invasively provide powerful patient information and urgently needs increased research. This project will contribute to workforce development in Iowa by training the next generation of experts in the field of medical imaging.
Project: Orchestra Iowa Music Education Program
Recipient: Orchestra Iowa
119 3rd Avenue SE
Cedar Rapids, IA 52401
Amount Requested: $500,000
This project would fund a program of performances and education activities by Orchestra Iowa in Cedar Rapids. The Cedar Rapids Orchestra is the largest growing orchestra in the country and one of the premier orchestras in Iowa. This project would provide Iowa’s citizens, including children and youth, the opportunity to listen to, learn about, and participate in musical experiences to which they might not otherwise be exposed.
Project: Pappajohn Institute for Biomedical Discovery
Recipient: University of Iowa
101 Jessup Hall
Iowa City, IA 52242
Amount Requested: $8,000,000
These funds would pay for site preparation, building construction, and laboratory equipment purchases for the Pappajohn Institute, which would work towards new approaches to biomedical research, treatment, and prevention. The National Institutes of Health has called for bold new approaches to biomedical research, treatment and prevention to meet these needs and the University of Iowa is well-positioned to heed this call. The Institute for Biomedical Discovery has the potential to create 500 new, high-paying science and technology jobs and could result in $40 million in economic development by attracting and retaining bioscience companies, as well as by generating revenue from new discoveries. Additionally, the design and construction of the Institute for Biomedical Discovery will immediately create jobs in the short-term.
Project: Pharmaceutical Biotechnology Development Laboratory
Recipient: University of Iowa
101 Jessup Hall
Iowa City, IA 52242
Amount Requested: $1,900,000
This request would fund the establishment of a University of Iowa Pharmaceutical Biotechnology Laboratory which would do initial phase development research for industrial clients. This state of the art laboratory would translate research discoveries into safe and viable biotechnology products. This request will contribute to workforce development by training the next generation of pharmaceutics professionals, a field which is expanding fast as our population ages and new health challenges present themselves.
Project: Simulation Instructional Equipment for Southeastern Community College’s Health Programs
Recipient: Southeastern Community College (SCC)
1500 West Agency Road
West Burlington, IA 52655
Amount Requested: $231,000
These funds would help purchase simulation equipment for Southeastern Community College’s (SCC) health programs in West Burlington and Keokuk. The addition of fully equipped simulation labs serving both campuses will allow SCC to provide students with the crucial hands-on training that they need to successfully complete their educations and obtain highly paid employment as healthcare professionals.
Project: University of Iowa International Writing Program
Recipient: University of Iowa
105 Jessup Hall
Iowa City, Iowa 52242
Amount Requested: $696,988
In 2008, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) designated Iowa City the world's third City of Literature. The International Writing Program at the University of Iowa has long played a critical role in the city’s literary tradition. Furthermore, the Department of State has long recognized that the International Writing Program, and the exchange of writers in general, fulfill national and international needs for cultural exchange and citizen diplomacy. This type of citizen-to-citizen diplomacy has, in turn, been recognized as a cost effective method of supporting democracy overseas and building good will and cultural understanding of America abroad. This funding would be used to support four major exchange programs. The Fall Residency will bring 12-15 foreign writers to Iowa City during the fall semester. The Souk Ukaz Convocation will bring 12-14 distinguished writers from the US and other countries together for a week-long discussion. The Reading-Lecture Tour will send up to 12 emerging and established American writers-teachers to conduct writing workshops in up to six countries of strategic interest. Lastly, the Between the Line Program will be a two-week summer enrichment program during which 12 high school students from Arabic-speaking countries will study creative writing at the University of Iowa with their American high school counterparts.
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