Congrats to the receipts of this year’s OpenHawks OER Grants. OpenHawks is a campus-wide grant program, awarded by the University of Iowa Libraries, that funds faculty efforts to replace high-cost textbooks with open educational resources (OERs) for enhanced student success.

This year’s grant awarded 11 projects, which are set to be completed in summer 2025. These projects will be created using the Pressbooks platform. These OER projects will benefit students in a wide range of disciplines.

Congratulations to the following awardees:

• Micah Bateman, School of Library and Information Science
• Kristina Gavin Bigsby, Business Analytics, Tippie College of Business
• Roxanna Curto, Department of French and Italian and Spanish and Portuguese
• Ibrahim Demir, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Michelle Higgins, Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery
• Alexis Jiménez, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
• Erning Li, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
• Sylvia Mikucki-Enyart, Department of Communication Studies
• John Momberg, Department of Physics and Astronomy
• Joung-A Park, Department of Asian and Slavic Languages and Literatures
• Jared Stiles, Department of Radiology

To learn more about OpenHawks and information about the next call for proposals, visit the OpenHawks website. To learn more about Pressbooks, visit the OTLT Pressbooks webpage.