Corinne Peek-Asa, associate dean for research for the University of Iowa College of Public Health and professor in the Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, will deliver Iowa’s 37th annual Presidential Lecture on Feb. 16, 2020.

University of Iowa Associate Professor Nick Yablon's recent book, Remembrance of Things Present, traces the birth of the time capsule to the Gilded Age, when growing urban volatility prompted doubts about how the period would be remembered—or if it would be remembered at all.

The University of Iowa Museum of Natural History was awarded a $17,900 grant through the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs' Historical Resource Development Program for critical collections storage upgrades.

The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded a five-year, $7.5 million grant to a team led by H.S. Udaykumar, professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Iowa, and Tommy Sewell, professor of chemistry at the University of Missouri.

The Tippie College of Business has been reaccredited by AACSB International in business and accounting, ensuring the college meets the accrediting organization’s standards of excellence, rigor, and commitment to continuous improvement.

Kari Kozak, head librarian at the Lichtenberger Engineering Library at the University of Iowa, was awarded the 2019 Engineering Library Division Best Poster Award for her non-traditional, interactive poster Tuesday, June 18, 2019, during the American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference in Tampa, Florida.

Physics and astronomy professor Craig Kletzing has been named the inaugural holder of the Donald A. and Marie B. Gurnett Chair. The five-year appointment will begin July 1.

The University of Iowa’s Aging and Longevity Studies Program’s (ALSP) certificate program, housed in the School of Social Work, has earned the Program of Merit designation from the Academy for Gerontology in Higher Education (AGHE), a national membership organization of colleges and universities that offers education, training, and research programs in the field of aging.

Engineers at the University of Iowa and the University of Colorado at Boulder are partnering on a three-year, $565,000 grant from NASA to use satellite images processed by high-performance computing to determine why the nitrogen dioxide declines seem to have leveled off.

The University of Iowa has won the single largest externally funded research project in its history, a $115 million contract awarded to Craig Kletzing, professor in the UI Department of Physics and Astronomy. Kletzing’s team will study the connection between the magnetic fields of the Earth and sun.