The University of Iowa has received a $150,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to investigate how the arts build and strengthen a sense of community in rural areas, and contribute to entrepreneurship and innovation.

The University Transportation Center grant will help fund an interdisciplinary center, Safety Research Using Simulation (SAFER-SIM), intended to address the DOT’s research priority of promoting safety.

Robert Bacon, director of Iowa’s University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD) with the Center for Disabilities and Development at UI Health Care, receives the 2016 George S. Jesien Distinguished Achievement Award from the Association of University Centers on Disabilities.

University College announces the appointment of Kelly Flinn as the incoming director of the University of Iowa Center for Conferences.

University College announces the appointment of Mary Skopec as executive director of Iowa Lakeside Laboratory Regent Resource Center, effective Dec. 20, 2016.

Molly Rechkemmer was honored as a Champion for Student Success by Excelling@Iowa.

A paper co-authored by Christine Petersen, professor of epidemiology in the College of Public Health, has been selected for publication in WorldLeish-6, a collection of research papers about the parasitic disease Leishmaniasis.

Teresa Marshall and Cheryl Straub-Morarend, both of the UI College of Dentistry, were honored as evidence-based leaders by the American Dental Association and American Association for Dental Research.

Erica Kaldenberg, assistant director of UI REACH within the College of Education, and Meredith Saletta, an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, have been awarded an Obermann Center for Advanced Studies Interdisciplinary Research Grant.

DaVida Anderson, a graduate student in higher education and student affairs, and Dellyssa Edinboro, a graduate student in educational policy and leadership, have been named 2017 Obermann Graduate Fellows.