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Empowering Rural Electric Infrastructure Resilience

A team selected for strategic-plan seed funding during the spring 2024 Community Vitality Research and Innovation Roundtable recently received a three-year $1.5 million award from… Read More

October 9, 2024

J. Arbuckle interviewed on NPR All Things Considered

August 19, 2024

Dave Peters—“Rural, historical church facing closure in Johnson County.”

August 19, 2024

Staff Spotlight: Sam Mindes

August 12, 2024

Susan Stewart was interviewed for an article in The Hill: ‘Americans are Drinking as Much Alcohol Now as in Civil War Days’

December 21, 2023

Susan Stewart appeared on Scripps News to discuss women’s increasing alcohol consumption

December 21, 2023

Ann Oberhauser, Dan Krier: Iowa Public Radio’s ‘Caucus Land’ podcast

November 30, 2023

Matt DeLisi was guest speaker on Iowa Public Radio’s ‘River to River’ about unsolved murder cases in the U.S.

May 3, 2023

Katie Dentzman—Studying what influences students to return to family farm

May 3, 2023

Chris Morris recent guest on an Illinois Nutrient Loss Reduction podcast

Barriers to implementing conservation practices. Research has found that building a relationship of trust between a conservation practitioner and farmer has the most positive impact… Read More

January 26, 2023