A new program created in 2021 to recruit and retain faculty, including those from underrepresented backgrounds, has committed more than $4 million to support 25 positions in its first year.

After more than 15 years at the university, long time Ombudsperson Cynthia Joyce has announced she will retire. A search committee has been tasked with finding the next university ombudsperson.

Chuck Swanson, longtime executive director of Hancher Auditorium at the University of Iowa, has announced his upcoming retirement.

The University of Iowa, which recently became a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Green Power Partner, is recognized on several of the EPA’s Top Green Power Partner Lists.

The University of Iowa has created a new award to recognize and retain outstanding tenured faculty.

Four University of Iowa faculty members were awarded the nation’s most prestigious humanities scholarship, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grants. The NEH awarded $24.7 million to 208 humanities projects nationwide.

The University of Iowa Office of the President and Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost are launching a program to hire tenured faculty who can have a transformational impact on the university because of their expertise in strategic areas of scholarship and teaching.

This February, in conjunction with the University of Iowa’s 175th anniversary, the Presidential Lecture Series will feature presentations from three distinguished UI faculty members—Craig Kletzing, Christopher Merrill, and Patricia Winokur.

The University of Iowa is moving forward with a recommendation to regild the Old Capitol dome. Work is expected to begin this spring and be complete by the start of the fall 2022 semester.

Donald Gurnett, a pioneering space scientist whose career as a student, teacher, and researcher at the University of Iowa spanned more than 60 years, died on Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022. He was 81.

The University of Iowa will begin planning the next 10 years of facilities construction and upgrades, creating much-needed academic space at the core of campus and modernizing the delivery of education and patient care to Iowans.

The University of Iowa has until June 30, 2023, to complete a federally-funded, $9.2 million expansion of its State Hygienic Lab, which has served Iowa’s public health needs for more than a century and processed about 1.6 million COVID-19 specimens over the past nearly two years.

To continue delivering on its missions of teaching, research, and patient care, the University of Iowa is asking the Board of Regents, State of Iowa, for permission to proceed with planning a 10-year revitalization of campus facilities.

Nearly 1,800 University of Iowa students received their degrees at fall 2021 commencement ceremonies Dec. 16—19.

The University of Iowa has appointed Mark Bullock as the next assistant vice president and director of public safety after a national search.

The University of Iowa is closely monitoring the severe weather expected to impact our area this afternoon and overnight into Thursday morning. At this time, the forecasted risk for extreme conditions varies across the state and are lesser in the Iowa City-Cedar Rapids area.

On Dec. 16–19, nearly 2,000 University of Iowa students will receive their degrees in a livestreamed, virtual commencement ceremonies.

The fund, in memory of J.J. Neiman-Brown, who died unexpectedly at nearly three years old, will support child care and other costs related to caregiving for University of Iowa tenured, tenure-track, and non-tenure-track faculty and postdoctoral researchers.

With winter weather returning to Iowa City, it’s important for those on campus to get reacquainted with the University of Iowa’s Extreme Weather Protocol.

A student’s first glimpse of the ocean during an excursion to the Galapagos. An evening in Seville that inspired a Spanish-learning journey. A welcoming carpet of black-eyed Susans in bloom on the Pentacrest.