Guowei Qi, a fourth-year student from West Des Moines, Iowa, has been named one of 17 Churchill scholars in the nation.

The Henry Fund, the University of Iowa’s graduate student-managed investment fund, was recently named the top fund in its class based on its performance in 2020.

The University of Iowa has confirmed the dates of its 2021–22 academic calendar with no changes made to the start or end dates for fall 2021, spring 2022, or summer 2022. The calendar also includes an optional four-week winter session beginning Dec. 20 and a weeklong spring break in March 2022.

Nyah Davis is a mathematics major from Des Moines, Iowa, whose algebra research focuses on the representation theory of quivers, or directed graphs. Jack Lynn is a biomedical engineering major from Bettendorf, Iowa, who studies computational biochemistry, specifically RNA biomolecular simulation.

The University of Iowa has 10 programs ranked among the top 10 of U.S. colleges and universities in the 2022 “U.S. News & World Report” rankings of graduate and professional schools.

University of Iowa President Bruce Harreld has named Professor Emeritus Susan R. Johnson chair of the search committee tasked with conducting an internal search for the next Faculty Ombudsperson.

The University of Iowa has approved a new undergraduate certificate in Urban Studies.

Kevin Kregel has been named the University of Iowa’s executive vice president and provost after serving in the role as interim since July 15, 2020. He will begin in the permanent role on Feb. 15.

The University of Iowa is distributing the first $7.5 million of the investment revenue generated from the public-private partnership (P3) for its utility system.

More than 6,500 undergraduate students at the University of Iowa were named to the dean’s list for the 2020 fall semester.

More than 850 undergraduate students at the University of Iowa were named to the president’s list for the 2020 fall semester.

The University of Iowa awarded more than 2,100 degrees at the close of the fall 2020 semester.