The Iowa Policy and Opinion Lab (IPOL) is a collaborative research group led by Professors Kajsa Dalrymple in Journalism and Mass Communication and Fred Boehmke in Political Science. Members of IPOL will collaborate to study policymaking and public opinion in Iowa.

John Pennington, a 1996 graduate of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications, has always had a knack for writing. As a child, Pennington was introduced to newspapers and received his first typewriter from his grandfather at eight-years-old.