Kristine L. Munoz, a professor in the Departments of Spanish and Portuguese and communication studies, has been selected as a Fulbright Scholar to Colombia for the 2020-21 academic year. Munoz is one of more than 800 U.S. citizens who will teach, conduct research, or provide expertise abroad for the 2020-2021 academic year through the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program.

The University of Iowa awarded more than 5,700 degrees at the close of the spring 2020 semester.

Mark Vander Weg has been named the head of the University of Iowa Department of Community and Behavioral Health, effective July 1, 2020. Vander Weg is currently an associate professor of internal medicine at the UI Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine and holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He...

More than 8,500 undergraduate students at the University of Iowa were named to the dean’s list for the 2020 spring semester.

More than 800 undergraduate students at the University of Iowa were named to the president’s list for the 2020 spring semester.

Inside homes across the country and around the world, friends and family of more than 5,400 graduates celebrated a historic virtual commencement for the University of Iowa class of 2020.

A University of Iowa graduate student in physics has been selected to conduct year-long research at a U.S. Department of Energy facility. Lucas Beving will do research with the low temperature plasma research group at Sandia National Lab, in New Mexico.

President Harreld shares a message with campus about the resilience of our institution and the ways Hawkeyes are both helping people in the here and now and looking toward the future. Read his full message on Iowa Now.

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.

This year, our students graduate under extraordinary circumstances that demand we step up to meet unprecedented challenges.

More than 5,400 Iowa students will be awarded degrees after the spring 2020 semester, and many graduates will participate in live-streamed virtual commencement ceremonies, which begin Thursday, May 14, with the College of Pharmacy and end on Friday, June 5, with the College of Dentistry.

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.