Bob McMurray, professor of psychological and brain sciences, was appointed to to the F. Wendell Miller Professorship.

Cesare Tinelli, professor of computer science, was appointed to the F. Wendell Miller Professorship.

Professor Kristy Nabhan-Warren was named the V.O. and Elizabeth Kahl Figge Chair in Catholic Studies on Sept. 23.

Kristen Radtke, a 2012 graduate of the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa, won the 2019 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant. Given annually by the Whiting Foundation, the grant awards $40,000 to a writer "in the process of completing a book of deeply researched and imaginatively composed nonfiction."

Ted Abel has been named chair and departmental executive officer of the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology.

Three University of Iowa scientists in the Iowa Neuroscience Institute (INI) have received NARSAD Young Investigator grants from the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation for projects focused on addiction, depression, and brain imaging. The two-year, $70,000 grants help promising young scientists launch careers in neuroscience and psychiatry.

Sue Hettmansperger, professor emeritus in the School of Art and Art History, will present a one-person exhibition of her artwork (painting and collage) at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania.

University of Iowa has been invited by The Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED) to join the CPED’s consortium of 115 institutional members. The UI will work with other consortium members to redesign professional practice preparation for the improvement of PK-20 education and the organizations that support it.

Ashley Wurzbacher, author of Happy Like This, released this fall from the University of Iowa Press, was named one of the 2019 National Book Award’s 5 Under 35 authors.

Calvin Hennick, who earned a bachelor's degree in English in 2004 from the University of Iowa, has won the Pushcart Editors' Book Award for his new book, Once More To The Rodeo: A Memoir.