Stephanie Gilbertson-White, associate professor and director of the PhD program in the University of Iowa College of Nursing, has been named one of 11 nurse scientists accepted to the inaugural cohort of the Betty Irene Moore Fellowships for Nurse Leaders and Innovators.

The University of Iowa Libraries has awarded 12 grants for Open Educational Resource (OER) projects for the 2020-2021 academic year.

Briante Najev, a first-year graduate student in Department of Biology at the University of Iowa, has won an award to create outreach activities explaining climate issues. She will lead a climate-oriented activity, called EcoStax, for populations primarily in Muscatine and Davenport.

James Shepherd, assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry, has been selected to receive $750,000 in funding as part of the U.S. Department of Energy's Early Career Research Program. Shepherd will use the funding to advance the field of finite-temperature electronic structure theory.

Kristine L. Munoz, a professor in the Departments of Spanish and Portuguese and communication studies, has been selected as a Fulbright Scholar to Colombia for the 2020-21 academic year. Munoz is one of more than 800 U.S. citizens who will teach, conduct research, or provide expertise abroad for the 2020-2021 academic year through the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program.

Philip Kaaret, professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, is part of an international team that has observed a black hole, located in the Milky Way galaxy, hurling hot material into space at close to the speed of light. The findings are reported in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

Ana M. Rodríguez-Rodríguez is playing a prominent role in bringing to light the work and legacy of women writers during Spain's "Golden Age," a period of flourishing in arts and literature in Spain in the 16th and 17th centuries. The associate professor of Spanish literature in the University of Iowa Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and interim chair of the Department of French and Italian...

Assistant Professor Christopher-Rasheem McMillan of the Departments of Dance and Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies, has been appointed a Fellow of the Institute of Sacred Music at Yale University. McMillan's Yale project will take two interdependent approaches: completion of a book titled Performance Criticism: Scripture, Sex, and the Sacred, and an evening-length performance called Sacred/...

The University of Iowa awarded more than 5,700 degrees at the close of the spring 2020 semester.

UI Stead Family Children’s Hospital is listed among the nation’s best in five specialties in the new 2020–21 Best Children’s Hospitals rankings published online today by U.S. News & World Report, the global authority in hospital rankings and consumer advice.