Deanne Wortman, a printmaker, was hired to lead the College of Engineering's new Nexus of Engineering and Art program, one that puts the college at the forefront of a national trend.

University of Iowa professor Philip Kaaret has won a $3.7 million NASA grant to build a satellite that will search for missing matter in hot gases associated with the Milky Way galaxy.

With Don Gurnett, and James Van Allen before him, the University of Iowa has a strong legacy of leading the scientific community in the exploration and understanding of space.

Student clinics at the UI College of Dentistry offer quality dental treatment for adults and children at a price that is about one-third to one-half the cost of a private dental practice.

The UI Libraries’ Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio offers a collaborative work environment that serves faculty and students whose research and creative work benefit from concentrated efforts in digital knowledge creation, curricular innovation, idea dissemination, and project archiving.

The University of Iowa first-year seminars, primarily taught by tenure-track faculty and senior administrators, are designed to connect faculty and students in order to build a foundation for academic success. They also improve retention rates, lessen students' feelings of anxiety, and sometimes point toward a career path not yet considered.

To keep up with the changing demands of the pharmacy profession, the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy has launched a new curriculum.

Almost 30 individuals were honored at the University of Iowa’s annual Faculty and Staff Awards Banquet Tuesday, Oct. 6, sponsored by the Office of the Provost and the Office of the Vice President for Human Resources.

A team made up of Tippie College of Business full-time M.B.A. students Weilong (Jade) Zhao, Dan Carp, and Farhan Ahmed finished in the top 8 of the Cerebration MBA Case Competition and advances to the final level of competition next month in Singapore. The competition started with 601 teams.

Casey Spoden, a full-time Iowa M.B.A. student at the Tippie College of Business, was part of a team that won the PepsiCo Invitational M.B.A. Business Competition at TCU’s Neeley School of Business in September.

The University of Iowa will host a symposium on Oct. 17 to honor physics professor Don Gurnett, who has taught and been engaged in space science at the UI for the past 50 years. The symposium is free and open to the public.

The University of Iowa Public Policy Center recently made changes to its Program Areas and Program leadership. The Center is pleased to announce four new directors.