Ali Hval (she/her) (b. 1993, Sacramento, CA) is a visual artist currently living and working in Iowa City, Iowa. She earned her MFA from the University of Iowa in Painting and Drawing with honors, and BFA in Painting from the University of Alabama with honors. Her work is interdisciplinary, combining ceramic, fabric, installation, and painting. The forms and materials she uses reflect her interest in adornment and the relentless critique and politicization of the body. Ali has completed over 30 public murals and projects in various communities across the US. These murals have ranged from large-scale projects for nonprofits and municipal entities, to projects which have directly involved community members in the painting and designing process.

Nellie Kluz is a filmmaker who records and interprets various places and communities, focusing on social interactions, belief systems and material realities. Her films have screened at venues like the Full Frame Film Festival, Festival de Popoli, the Chicago Underground Film Festival, Uniondocs, Camden International Film Festival, the Independent Film Festival Boston, the Maryland Film Festival...

Travis Kraus is an Associate Professor in the University of Iowa School of Planning & Public Affairs and is the Director for the Iowa Initiative for Sustainable Communities, a community engagement program that helps create more sustainable futures while enhancing teaching and learning at the University of Iowa.

Dr. Heidi Lung has led the University of Iowa’s museum studies certificate program since 2015. In addition to teaching and advising students in the program, Dr. Lung works with the Office of Outreach and Engagement to connect students with professional learning experiences in museums throughout the state. Dr. Lung serves on the Gender in Museum Movement (GEMM) steering committee, the leadership...

Pilar Marcé is a Lecturer of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. She earned her PhD in Teaching and Learning from the College of Education at the University of Iowa in 2019. She joined the University of Iowa faculty in 2006, and currently teaches Spanish for Business, translation into Spanish, as well as writing and culture courses. She has also coauthored several textbooks in Spanish for...

Professor Mattock completed her doctorate at the University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences. She also holds a MLIS with a concentration in Archives, Preservation and Records Management and a BA in Film Studies. Her professional experience as a video-technician and training in filmmaking and photography have shaped her academic interest in the preservation of visual media and visual...

Daniel Miller is an artist who creates generative works that investigate systems and ecologies in the contemporary landscape. His artwork may employ the use of robotics, electronics, sound, video and light to investigate subject. Miller’s work embraces the experiment and his art studio is also his laboratory to investigate: concept, materials and processes. Miller was an Adjunct Associate...

A dedicated teacher and mentor, Patrick “Packy” Moran seeks to help students discover the role they want sport to play in their daily lives. For some that means seeking employment in the production of spectator-driven events – the focus of the Sales in Sports course that Packy designed with Dr. Clint Huntrods – for others it means becoming a well-informed season ticket holder or sport parent...

Dr. Phuong Nguyen's research interests are in public finance and public policy in various sectors including education, health and transportation in the United States and Vietnam. Recent research has included the fiscal effects of property tax limit repeal and budget referendums on school spending, education finance reform, school quality capitalization, and the benefits and costs of paratransit.

Haifeng Qian is an associate professor in the School of Urban & Regional Planning (primary) and Public Policy Center at the University of Iowa, where he teaches applied microeconomics, economic development policy, and spatial data analysis. He has published over 20 research articles in the areas of entrepreneurship, innovation, urban economic development, and science & technology policy. Dr. Qian...

Michelle Scherer is a UI Distinguished Chair. Her research focuses on soil and water chemistry; lead in drinking water; groundwater remediation; and iron mineral geochemistry.

Carrie Schuettpelz was a homelessness policy advisor in the Obama Administration from 2009-2016. She was a Fulbright Scholar in 2006, which was awarded by the U.S. Department of State to study the East-West divide of the European Union in Copenhagen, Denmark. Schuettpelz's ongoing projects involve experiential learning, public policy curriculum, and student internship success. She is under contract for a non-fiction booked tentatively titled The Indian Card.

I am interested in how age, experience and the native language sound system interact with the perception and production of a second language. Adult second language learners approach their second language with a first language already in place. I investigate how experience with a previously acquired language affects the way learners perceive and produce a second (or third) language. I approach these issues by assuming the input signal is a source of rich information that learners may or may not be able to take advantage of when perceiving and producing their non-native language and creating the representations that support further learning.

Adam is the chair of the University's GIS Technical Advisory Committee (TAC), which attempts to grow and focus the GIS community on campus. In addition to his support role he is also tasked with oversight of the GISIL (GIS Instructional Lab) in 243 Jessup Hall, assisting in developing research (as it pertains to GIS) for both departmental and non-departmental faculty, teaching short trainings...