Nine humanities and humanities-adjacent University of Iowa PhD students have been competitively selected to spend this summer working with local arts and culture organizations on specific projects.

The University of Iowa has been chosen to participate in the 2019–20 inaugural First Forward cohort by the Center for First-generation Student Success, an initiative of NASPA—Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education and the Suder Foundation.

More than 4,300 University of Iowa students will receive their degrees at spring 2018 commencement ceremonies, which begin Thursday, May 10, with the College of Pharmacy and end on Friday, May 25, with the College of Dentistry. All other ceremonies will take place May 11–13.

The University of Iowa Council on Teaching has named 29 teaching assistants recipients of the 2019 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.

Anna Ward, a fourth-year graduate student in the Department of Biology, has won research funding from the American Genetic Association to reconstruct the evolutionary history wasps that cause a type of tumor on oak trees in North America.

University of Iowa physicists use a special furnace to produce a key piece of equipment whose manufacturing process was once lost to history. The UI is one of a handful of academic institutions worldwide with a furnace capable of reproducing the magnetic instrument, called a ring core.

An Iowa Institute for Biomedical Imaging (IIBI) research team won best machine-learning paper at the International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2019) recently in Venice, Italy.

University of Iowa Research Technology Compliance Specialist Gabriella Perez was one of six delegates selected from a nationally-competitive pool to participate in the National Science Foundation’s Trusted CI Open Science Cybersecurity Fellows .Program.

Meenakshi Gigi Durham, Tricia Kroll, and Susan Junis were recognized for their exemplary leadership, accomplishments, and service during the Celebration of Excellence and Achievement Among Women ceremony. Eight students were also honored.

Martha Kirby, senior academic advisor in the Department of Political Science received the 2019 Lola Lopes Award for Undergraduate Student Advocacy, which recognizes administrators, staff, or faculty outside of their teaching role who serve as strong and effective advocates for undergraduate students and the undergraduate experience.