The 2025 Dare to Discover banner campaign highlights 80 undergraduate, graduate student, and postdoctoral scholars who are engaged in promising research, scholarship, and creative activities that range from unlocking the molecular mechanisms of disease to exploring the mysteries of space. 

The banners, the tenth installment of the campaign, will be up in downtown Iowa City until March. 

“Every day, students and postdocs contribute to research and creative activity happening at the University of Iowa,” said Lois Geist, interim vice president for research. “We are pleased to celebrate those efforts through this campaign.”

Advisors and colleagues nominated the students and postdocs, whose profiles can be found at dare.research.uiowa.edu.

The following College of Public Health students, postdocs, and recent graduates are featured in this year’s campaign:

• Oluwaseun Badru, PhD student, community and behavioral health
• Laura Dean, postdoctoral scholar, occupational and environmental health
• Rebeca Galindo, PhD student, epidemiology
• Amir Ghanbari, PhD student, epidemiology
• Ajwad Iqbal, undergraduate student, public health
• David-Erick Lafontant, 24PhD, biostatistics
• Abbey Wehrheim, Undergraduate student, public health
• Morgan Wolff, PhD student, epidemiology