IOWA (Improving Our Workplace Award) nominations are being taken until March 15 by the IOWA Review Committee. The IOWA is given to UI individual staff and teams who have seen a challenge and worked to improve it using creative and ingenious solutions.

University of Iowa finance major Adam Schweickert is getting a major leg up from the financial giant Sallie Mae—not only a free ride to cover his bachelor's degree, but his master's degree as well.

On Jan. 26 and 27 University of Iowa Mock Trial team 1479 competed in the ninth annual Big Red Invitational Mock Trial tournament hosted by Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y.

The annual Martin Luther King, Jr., Research Symposium, hosted by the College of Education’s Diversity Committee and sponsored by the UI Epsilon Chapter of Phi Delta Kappa, celebrates College of Education student research focused on diversity and service. Awards were given for the top five projects.

Edgar Folk, Ph.D., UI professor emeritus of molecular physiology and biophysics, has published his memoir, "Science on the Far Horizon," which chronicles his more than seven decade scientific career. Folk pineered the field of environmental physiology and has been an influential member of the UI Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics since 1953.

Marilynne Robinson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and faculty member in the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, has been shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize, along with writers from India, Russia, and China.

George Weiner, M.D., director of the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Iowa, has been elected vice-president/president-elect of the Association of American Cancer Institutes (AACI). His term began January 1, and he will become AACI president in the fall of 2014.

Who are our diversity champions out making a difference? The University of Iowa Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity in the Chief Diversity Office wants to know. The office is seeking nominations for the 2013 Diversity Catalyst Awards. Nominations are due by Feb. 8.

Spencer Gillis, a University of Iowa graduate, shares his motivation for creating the short-film, Gun, one of 85 films selected to be screened at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival.

The University of Iowa College of Pharmacy’s residency site in Dubuque was recently recognized as “a model of excellence” by the American Pharmacist Association.