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IPOL Historical Iowa Polls

Tuesday, May 30, 2023
Iowa Policy and Opinion Lab (IPOL) analyzed data from recently recovered Iowa polls conducted by the Des Moines Register around 1980. Read about their findings at https://ipol.lab.uiowa.edu/news.
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Hawkeye Policy Report 2022-2023

Thursday, March 23, 2023
The 2022-2023 edition of the Hawkeye Policy Report has been released by students in the Legislative Policy Seminar (POLI:3127). This year's edition covers topics on Iowa's cannabis policy, monitoring PFAS in Iowa's waterways, and improving K-12 reading proficiency.
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Graduate College Summer Fellowships

Thursday, March 23, 2023
Congratulations to Willow Kreutzer, Saera Lee, Nate Micatka, Jianjun Yu, Hyein Ko, Haofeng Ma, Dasha Kuznetsova, and Addison Huygens on being awarded the Graduate College Summer Fellowship for Summer 2023.
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