Rebekah Kowal, the executive officer of the Department of Dance, was recently shortlisted for the Oscar G. Brockett Prize for Dance Research for her 2020 book, "Dancing the World Smaller: Staging Globalism in Mid-Century America."

Mark Blumberg, chair of the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Iowa, discusses his research into the connection between body twitches, dreams, and REM sleep.

Kristy Nabhan-Warren, professor and V.O. and Elizabeth Kahl Figge Chair in Catholic Studies, published an article in The Conversation, an independent news organization dedicated to unlocking the knowledge of academic experts for the general public. As a scholar of Roman Catholicism, Nabhan-Warren describes how Pope Francis' official travels are part of his decade-long effort to rebrand the Roman Catholic Church as a religious institution that centers on the poor.

Among the enduring social changes to follow the COVID-19 pandemic has been a collective shift to group video calls for work meetings. Many of us still end those calls with a “Zoom wave” three years later. But why?

Whether you were out of town, on vacation, or unplugged for the summer, here are 10 things you may have missed.

Craig Kletzing, the easygoing, humble professor who for nearly three decades at Iowa combined a zeal for teaching with a decorated research career in space plasma experimental physics, has died. He was 65.

As the heat cranks up, so do the sounds of summer. Whether you’re cheering at the ballpark, attending a music festival, or simply taking care or your lawn, the decibel level of the great outdoors can have short-term and long-term effects on your hearing.

The Rhetoric Society of America (RSA) has announced E Cram as the winner of its 2023 Book Award for their 2022 work titled Violent Inheritance: Sexuality, Land, Energy, and the Making of the North American West. This award is presented annually to the best publication by an RSA member published during the current academic year.

The University of Iowa is in the beginning stages of planning for the Department of Dance to vacate aging Halsey Hall and relocate to the Performing Arts Annex, the renamed former art museum that sits among other arts buildings on the west side of the Iowa River.

Mathematics department administrator Margaret Driscol has worked for the University of Iowa for more than half a century.

Lang is lending her expertise to help a group charged with improving programming and initiatives supported by the NSF, an independent federal agency that supports science and engineering.