University of Iowa Staff Council’s service-recognition program acknowledges all professional and scientific and merit staff who have reached 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, or 50 years of continuous service. Awardees receive a certificate and letter of appreciation from the Office of the President.

Abel, professor and chair of the Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology in the UI Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine and director of the Iowa Neuroscience Institute, will deliver a lecture titled “It’s not a dream, it’s a memory,” at 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 7, in the IMU.

Twenty-eight University of Iowa faculty and staff members were honored with the UI’s 2021 Faculty and Staff Awards for achievements ranging from excellence in service to leadership in diversity, equity, and inclusion.

The American Association of University Women (AAUW) has awarded a 2021-22 American Fellowship to University of Iowa student Mallory Tollefson.

The University of Iowa Technology Institute (ITI) has received an Epic MegaGrant that will be used to explore the integration of its virtual human, Santos, with Epic Games’ Unreal Engine.

Writer and radio producer Daniel Alarcón, who received a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 2004, was named a recipient of a 2021 MacArthur Fellowship, also known as the “genius grant.”

Researchers led by the University of Iowa have been awarded $4 million in funding to support renewable energy industries in Iowa and Kansas. The funding, from the U.S. National Science Foundation, seeks to bolster the nation's competitiveness in renewable energy.

University of Iowa physicist Michael Flatté is part of a national research team that has won funding from the U.S. Department of Energy to continue to advance quantum science and technology.

Liz Hollingworth, educational leadership professor and interim DEO in the University of Iowa College of Education, has been named to the Big Ten Equality Coalition Executive Committee for 2021-22.

Caterina Lamuta, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Iowa, has taken a keen interest in cephalopods and has found new ways to mimic their tentacles in the lab. Lamuta was recently awarded a prestigious Young Investigator Award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop new self-morphing, stretchable soft skins for use in...