The University of Iowa has been named one of the top universities in the United States and the world in a ranking by the Times of London’s higher education supplement.

Chosen from thousands of applicants from colleges and universities across the U.S., eight University of Iowa undergraduates were awarded the competitive Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.

The American Academy of Nursing officially designated five prominent nurse leaders as Living Legends—the Academy's highest honor. Among the five honorees is UI College of Nursing Professor Emeritus Kathleen (Kitty) Buckwalter.

The American Academy of Nursing recently announced its selection of 230 highly distinguished nurse leaders as part of its 2020 Class of Academy Fellows. Among this extraordinary group of new fellows are University of Iowa College of Nursing faculty member Barbara St. Marie and University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics’ Chief Nursing Officer Cindy Dawson.

The University of Iowa’s Iowa John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center (Iowa JPEC) is the co-recipient of a $100,000 grant from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City to expand entrepreneurial education training in the state.

The Society of Professional Journalists has named Stephen Bloom, professor in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, the recipient of its coveted Distinguished Teaching in Journalism Award. The national award is given to just one journalism educator each year, and this is the first time that a UI instructor has earned it.

Adam Cossette, who earned his PhD in geoscience from the UI in 2018, and his graduate advisor, Professor Christopher Brochu of the UI Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, have co-authored a paper that sheds new light on Deinosuchus—one of the largest, if not the largest, crocodylian genera known.

A team of biologists led in part by the University of Iowa has traced the origins of an invasive snail in the Great Lakes. Maurine Neiman, associate professor in the Department of Biology, and Carina Donne, a second-year master's student, say the invasive snails came from New Zealand and Europe.

Sam Burer, professor of business analytics in the Tippie College of Business, was the recipient of the 2020 INFORMS Computing Society prize for his pioneering work on low-rank semidefinite programming.

Particle physicists at the University of Iowa are part of an international scientific team announcing the first evidence of rare interactions between the Higgs boson and a fundamental particle called a muon. The discovery adds to understanding about how basic constituents of the universe interact.