Brittany Williams, a student in the University of Iowa’s Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Neuroscience, received a National Research Service Award from the National Institutes of Health, earning a perfect score from the NIH review committee on her grant application in the process.

The Walgreen Company, one of the nation’s largest drugstore chains, has donated $350,000 to support an interdisciplinary, multi-use suite of 10 skills room in the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy’s new building.

The College of Dentistry & Dental Clinics will be presented with the 2016 Underserved Champion Award by the Iowa Primary Care Association.

The University of Iowa’s Tippie College of Business will begin offering a Master of Science degree in business analytics starting this fall in Des Moines, providing flexible opportunities for advanced study in a rapidly growing career field.

The UI College of Education’s Master of Arts in educational leadership program ranks No. 17 in the 2016 edition of the 'U.S. News and World Report’ Best Online Graduate Education Programs and the 16th-best program for veterans, thanks to an excellent job placement rate and the flexibility online learning provides.

Mark A. McDermott and Brian Hand publish "Modeling Scientific Communication with Multimodal Writing Tasks: Impact on Students at Different Grade Levels" in "Using Multimodal Representations to Support Learning in the Science Classroom."

Deborah Linebarger publishes chapter "Scientific Concepts, Multiple Modalities, and Young Children" in "Using Multimodal Representations to Support Learning in the Science Classroom."

University of Iowa President Bruce Harreld pushes for increased faculty compensation despite state budgeting constraints.

Join the campuswide celebration! Faculty, staff, students, and community members will participate in lectures, discussions, and cultural arts presentations. All events are free and open to the public.

The "Get to Know" series asks University of Iowa faculty, staff, and students a few questions about their work and outside interests. Meet senior graphic design student Sam Watkins, who painted eight portraits of Martin Luther King Jr. that comprise an Iowa Memorial Union exhibition called "Keep Moving Forward."

Death notices for current and retired UI employees. Links to online obituaries provided when available.

The UI is one of  11 Centers for Excellence in Pain Education selected by the National Institutes of Health Pain Consortium. The  centers will help improve pain education for undergraduate and graduate health professional students.