The University of Iowa awarded nearly 4,300 degrees at the close of the 2017 spring semester.

More than 400 undergraduate students at the University of Iowa were named to the president’s list for the 2017 spring semester.

More than 4,800 undergraduate students at the University of Iowa were named to the dean’s list for the 2017 spring semester.

“U.S. News & World Report” has ranked University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital in six specialties in the 2017–18 Best Children’s Hospitals list: No. 20 in neonatology, No. 21 in nephrology, No. 34 in cancer, No. 36 in urology, No. 45 in pulmonology, and No. 48 in cardiology/heart surgery.

The University of Iowa has named five faculty recipients of 2017–18 Big Ten Academic Alliance Leadership Program fellowships.

The UI’s Khalid Algharrawi has received the 2016 University of Iowa Research Foundation Inventor Award for his research project involving the production of 7-methylxanthine from caffeine and theobromine via the metabolic engineering of E. coli.

Saba Rasheed Ali, director of Project HOPE and an expert in vocational psychology, employment issues, and career development of underserved youth, has been named associate dean for research at the University of Iowa’s College of Education. Ali will assume the new role July 1.

Sanjena Anshu Sathian, who will be a student in the Iowa Writers’ Workshop starting in the fall 2017 semester, was named a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow for New Americans.

Peter Damiano, professor of preventive and community dentistry in the University of Iowa College of Dentistry and Dental Clinics and director of the Public Policy Center and the PPC’s Health Policy Research Program, has been invited to serve on the Legislative Advisory Committee of the American Dental Education Association.

Greg Stewart and Amy Colbert, professors of management and organizations in the UI Tippie College of Business, have been appointed to new chairs in the college. Stewart has been appointed to the Mary H. Bell Chair in Leadership, and Colbert to the Leonard A. Hadley Chair in Leadership.