The University of Iowa has 60 programs ranked in this year’s “U.S. News & World Report” graduate and professional school rankings, 11 with top 10 rankings in their categories.

Linda Snetselaar, professor of epidemiology and endowed chair of preventive nutrition in the College of Public Health, is one of 20 nationally recognized scientists selected to serve on the federal government's 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee.

UI Political Science Professor Caroline Tolbert was recognized as one of the 400 most-cited political science faculty members in the country in the PS: Political Science article, "The Political Science 400: With Citation Counts by Cohort, Gender, and Subfield."

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has named six recipients of the Collegiate Teaching Award for 2018-2019.

Katrina Sanders, University of Iowa College of Education associate professor, has been awarded a 2019 Sabbatical Research Grant, funded by the Lily Endowment through the Louisville Institute, to complete a book titled, "The Rise and Fall of Black Catholic Education in a Changing South, 1886-1976."

Brady Krien, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English at the University of Iowa, has been recognized for making exceptional contributions in the classroom and beyond with the 2019 Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools (MAGS) Excellence in Teaching Award. Krien is the UI’s first recipient of this award.

Ronald McMullen, the university's Ambassador in Residence and lecturer in the Department of Political Science, has been awarded the 2018-19 International Engagement Teaching Award by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and International Programs. The award recognizes faculty members who excel at integrating internationalism into their teaching.

Danny Tallon is a third-year physics major, a published co-author on two scientific papers, and a cadet in the University of Iowa’s Air Force ROTC program who aims to have a military career studying space—or perhaps visiting it himself.

The University of Iowa Office of the Provost has selected five interdisciplinary initiatives to receive up to $300K over three years.

UI physics student William Fuelberth's research poster has earned a medal at the recent American Astronomical Society meeting in Seattle. the poster by Fuelberth, an undergraduate, was chosen from 214 undergraduate submissions.