The Three Minute Thesis is an annual competition sponsored by the UI Graduate College that encourages graduate students to learn how to clearly and concisely articulate their research to non-specialist audiences by explaining what they do in three minutes or less.

The Carver College of Medicine announces two endowed professorships, the E. A. Franken Jr. Professorship in Pediatric Radiology to Yutaka Sato and the Gary L. Soderberg Professorship in Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science to Richard Shields.

Joseph Szot has been named associate dean for continuing and integrated medical education in the UI Carver College of Medicine.

Kevin Campbell and Michael Welsh will continue to serve as Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigators for another five years following renewal of their appointments by HHMI.

Five University of Iowa faculty, staff, and students were recognized at the inaugural First-Generation Student Awards and Recognition Ceremony held Friday, Nov. 8, in Hancher Auditorium as part of the 2019 National First-Generation College Celebration.

A collaboration between the University of Iowa 3D Design team and Theatre Arts Department won top honors in CONNECT, the design school competition at the 2019 Sculpture Objects Functional Art and Design (SOFA) Fair.

Six University of Iowa alumni and faculty who served their country will be honored in a ceremony at 5 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 14, in the Main Lounge of the Iowa Memorial Union.

John Culshaw, the Jack B. King University Librarian at the University of Iowa, has been elected to serve as incoming vice president/president-elect for the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). Culshaw will become ARL president on Oct. 7, 2020.

Four teams of University of Iowa students were honored for their business startup ideas at the fall semester Iowa Startup Games competition, sponsored by the Iowa John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center.

University of Iowa researchers report the spacecraft Voyager 2 has reached interstellar space, following Voyager 1’s historic passage six years ago. In the study, the researchers note a jump in plasma density detected by an Iowa-led plasma wave instrument on the spacecraft as evidence.