The UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences named two faculty members to the honor of distinguished associate professor of Instruction for 2020-2022: Pilar Marcé of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and Rosemary Moore of the departments of Classics and History.

The University of Iowa Council on Teaching named 30 teaching assistants as recipients of the 2020 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.

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.

Four University of Iowa faculty members have received the 2020 President and Provost Award for Teaching Excellence in recognition of their years of outstanding teaching. The recipients are: Nancy Abram, Stella Burch Elias, Julia Kleinschmit, and Suresh M.L. Raghavan.

The University of Iowa’s most prestigious awards for faculty, staff, and students were announced April 21 on the Hancher-Finkbine website.

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.

Four postdoctoral scholars comprise the University of Iowa Office of the Provost’s first cohort in the Provost’s Postdoctoral Faculty Fellowship Program. The program is intended to serve as a pipeline to tenure-track positions.

Emily Silich, a University of Iowa third-year student studying astronomy, physics, and mathematics, has been named a 2020 Goldwater Scholar.

University of Iowa faculty are using OpenHawks grants to create open educational resources to replace traditional textbooks or other costly course materials for their classes, saving students money and better serving class needs.

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.

The University of Iowa is one of the largest deliverers of online education, ranking in the top 50 in the nation and No. 4 among its peers. This extensive experience will ensure Iowa students continue to get an educational experience that remains among the best in the nation.

Friday was Match Day – the day when graduating medical students across the country find out where they will do their residency training. But with the COVID-19 pandemic up ending everyday life across the country, it was possibly the most unusual Match Day ever.