University of Iowa biologists have learned animals can alert future offspring of dangers they will encounter. In studies with roundworms and mouse cells, researchers showed how mothers pass chemical signals to their unfertilized eggs, where the warning is stored and passed to offspring.

Veteran researcher Stanley Perlman—until recently, one of only 10 full-time coronavirus virologists in the world—leads the University of Iowa’s search for answers on COVID-19.

University of Iowa faculty members Simon Balto, assistant professor of History and African American Studies, and Richard Brent Turner, professor of Religious Studies and African American Studies, have been named 2020 fellows of the American Council of Learned Societies.

A record number of 24 University of Iowa students and alumni from a range of creative, academic, and scientific fields have been chosen from among more than 10,000 students nationally to receive a prestigious Fulbright award to conduct research, teach English, or undertake creative projects abroad.

Professor of Physics and Astronomy Cornelia Lang will serve as the associate dean for undergraduate education, and Professor of Biology Joshua Weiner will become associate dean for research. Both appointments are effective July 1, 2020.

Biological agents at the University of Iowa’s Developmental Studies Hybridoma Bank are being enlisted in the quest to fight the novel coronavirus.

Val Sheffield, the Roy J. Carver Chair in Molecular Genetics at the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, has been elected to the 2020 class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Bighley Chair and Professor in the UI College of Pharmacy Aliasger Salem was interviewed by National Geographic for the article, “Why a coronavirus vaccine could take way longer than a year.” Salem discusses the vaccine development process in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Many scholars at the University of Iowa are grappling with the impact of the pandemic on their profession and personal life. The Obermann Center for Advanced Studies is holding a regular web series, called "Pandemic Insights," preserving stories of the impact of a pandemic on educators and scholars in eastern Iowa.

Brian Ekdale, a filmmaker and media scholar, is pondering what Kenya’s robust gig economy has to teach us at this moment of global crisis.

We Stand Together—it’s a mantra we’ve heard time and again this past month as our world deals with the impact of COVID-19.

UI faculty members David Gompper and H. Glenn Penny will use their $50,000 Guggenheim fellowship grants to take a year off from teaching to focus solely on their research.

The Iowa Superfund Research Program (ISRP), a University of Iowa research group started in 2006 that is a leader in the study of human exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), has received a highly competitive five-year, $11.4 million grant renewal from the National Institutes of Health.

Two Iowa faculty members received Guggenheim fellowships, the Guggenheim foundation announced Wednesday. David Gompper, professor of composition in the UI School of Music, and Glenn Penny, professor of history, were among the 175 writers, scholars, artists, and scientists nationwide chosen.

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has named Rebekah Kowal to the honor of Collegiate Scholar for 2020-2022, which recognizes faculty for excellence as evidenced in their promotion record at the time of their candidacy for promotion to the rank of full professor.

Two University of Iowa professors in January received National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships—considered to be among the highest honors in the humanities.

The National Advanced Driving Simulator (NADS) conducts some of the world's most serious driving research from its lab at the University of Iowa.

Susannah Wood, associate professor in the Rehabilitation and Counselor Education Department, is one of only 13 scholars from across the nation to be named a 2020 American Counseling Association Fellow, the highest honor awarded by the ACA.

By studying the sick hearts removed from four patients undergoing heart transplants, researchers have identified a protein and a signaling pathway that may contribute to sudden death in an inherited form of heart disease.

The University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine will honor 47 of its faculty as the college’s inaugural group of Impact Scholars—researchers who have made a major scientific impact over the course of their careers.