The University of Iowa’s National Advanced Driving Simulator (NADS) has received a $7 million grant from the United States Department of Transportation to study the safe deployment of automated vehicles in rural areas.

Omar Chowdhury, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, has won a Young Faculty Award from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to study threats to cellular phone networks. Chowdury receives $497,000 for two years.

The Association of American Universities (AAU) announced today that the University of Iowa Graduate College was selected to participate in a prestigious pilot cohort of eight AAU member campuses in Phase I of the AAU PhD Education Initiative, which aims to change the culture surrounding doctoral education.

The University of Iowa has been named one of the top universities in the United States and in the world in a new ranking by the Times of London’s higher education supplement.

Leslie Schwalm, University of Iowa professor of history and chair of the Department of Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies, has been named as a North American Teaching Partner with the Colored Conventions Project.

Researchers at the University of Iowa have won $3.5 million from NASA to launch two rockets in late 2021 that will study electrical currents between the Earth’s magnetosphere and an active, upper layer of its atmosphere that can yield auroras.

Elizabeth Reetz, director of strategic initiatives at the University of Iowa Office of the State Archaeologist, was recently published by Science Friday as the culmination of her participation in the Science Friday Educator Collaborative.

Jane Huffman, grants and funding manager for the Iowa Youth Writing Project, was awarded a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation.

Faculty and staff, as you prepare to settle in for the fall semester, here are a few stories you may have missed while enjoying summer.

University of Iowa graduate students Ana-Monica Racila and Serena Gumusoglu have been awarded funding to pursue academic work and lead innovative community projects that empower women and girls. The awards are from the American Association of University Women.