A University of Iowa researcher has received a $155,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop an analytical tool that uses data to help planners and policy makers detect population shifts and environmental changes.

University of Iowa student Eric Pahl and recent graduate Dalton Shaull recently won $25,000 from the Iowa Economic Development Authority for their startup business, called Organizer. Shaull was motivated to start the project after watching his friend fight off a disease as he waited for a transplant.

Amanda McCann is recognized as the outstanding senior engineering student of the Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps.

UI Just Living Student Ambassadors named winners of the 2016 Engaged Campus Award.

Kevin Birmingham, an instructor at Harvard University, has received the 2016 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin. The University of Iowa Writers' Workshop administers the award, the largest annual cash prize in English-language literary criticism, on behalf of the Truman Capote Estate.

Kyle Wehr, a full-time MBA student from Davenport, was named one of the 100 Best and Brightest MBA graduates nationally in the class of 2016.

The University of Iowa Office of Student Employment and the UI Student to Employed Professional (STEP) program have named the first-ever Student Supervisor of the Year: Jessica Waldschmidt.

The University of Iowa announced a record 14 students and alumni have landed Fulbright U.S. Student Program grants to conduct research, attend graduate school, pursue creative work, or serve as English teaching assistants overseas in the 2016–17 season. That total tops last year’s record-breaking tally of 13 UI Fulbright placements.

University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics has been named one of "100 great hospitals in America 2016" by 'Becker's Hospital Review.'

The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government. It is designed to increase understanding between people of the United States and other countries by providing participants opportunities to study, teach, conduct research, and contribute to finding solutions to shared international concerns.