University of Iowa spin-off Viewpoint Molecular Targeting has recently been awarded a $2 million Phase II National Institutes of Health Small Business Innovation Research award to support development of a new treatment for metastatic melanoma.

University of Iowa Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center and Mayo Clinic have received a five-year, $12.4 million grant renewal from the National Cancer Institute to continue the Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) for lymphoma research. The UI–Mayo program is the nation's longest-standing lymphoma SPORE.

Dale Eric Wurster will receive an award for scientific research and be installed as president-elect of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists in November.

“Jackson Pollock’s ‘Mural’: The Story of a Modern Masterpiece,” a documentary produced by and created at the University of Iowa, has won an Emmy from the Mid-America Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

For 40 years, an instrument designed and built at the University of Iowa has made discoveries in NASA’s historic Voyager 1 mission. Physics and astronomy professor Don Gurnett designed Voyager’s radio- and plasma-wave detector, which determined that the spacecraft became the first human-made object to leave the solar system.

The University of Iowa and its Vaughn Institute of Insurance and Risk Management was named one of the top 20 universities in the world for insurance education and research by a global insurance-advocacy organization.

A newly discovered Walt Whitman book, the UI Press–published Life and Adventures of Jack Engle, was recently reviewed in The New York Times. The review highlights the importance of resources like the UI's Whitman Archive and its WhitmanWeb collaboration with the university's International Writing Program.

The University of Iowa’s Vaughan Institute of Risk Management and Insurance has been named a Global Center of Insurance Excellence in recognition of its research excellence and outstanding risk management and insurance educational programs.

The three inaugural winners of the See It awards are Alyssa Mattson, Carol Adamson, and Ryan Jepson. All three received certificates and local department recognition.

A number of University of Iowa employees have won accolades for their contributions to faculty and staff recruitment, UI Hospitals and Clinics efficiency, and university-wide camp registration for high school students and others. Read on to find out who won an Improving Our Workplace Award (IOWA).