University of Iowa faculty are using OpenHawks grants to create open educational resources to replace traditional textbooks or other costly course materials for their classes, saving students money and better serving class needs.

When University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics put out the call for additional face shields this week, the College of Engineering jumped to help, making more than 1,000 of them in their medical device labs.

Friday was Match Day – the day when graduating medical students across the country find out where they will do their residency training. But with the COVID-19 pandemic up ending everyday life across the country, it was possibly the most unusual Match Day ever.

The University of Iowa has 60 colleges and specialties in this year’s ranking, including 11 in the top 10.

By studying the sick hearts removed from four patients undergoing heart transplants, researchers have identified a protein and a signaling pathway that may contribute to sudden death in an inherited form of heart disease.

The University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine will honor 47 of its faculty as the college’s inaugural group of Impact Scholars—researchers who have made a major scientific impact over the course of their careers.

Peter Snyder has been named associate dean for faculty affairs and development in the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, effective March 1.

U.S. Navy Capt. Jeffrey D. Quinlan has been named chair and departmental executive officer of the Department of Family Medicine in the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine. He will begin Oct. 15 after completing a 28-year career in the U.S. Navy.

More than 6,100 undergraduate students at the University of Iowa were named to the dean’s list for the 2019 fall semester.

The University of Iowa awarded more than 1,600 degrees at the close of the 2019 fall semester.

The National Academy of Inventors has named University of Iowa cystic fibrosis and gene therapy researcher John Engelhardt, PhD, a 2019 Fellow. Engelhardt, who is professor and head of anatomy and cell biology in the UI Carver College of Medicine and director of the UI Center for Gene Therapy, is recognized for his work in developing gene therapies to treat cystic fibrosis.

Faculty members from the University of Iowa’s College of Engineering and the Carver College of Medicine have been named IEEE Fellows, the highest grade of IEEE membership recognized by the technical community as a prestigious honor and an important career achievement.