The University of Iowa met its goal of 40 percent renewable energy by 2020, with help from tall grasses

New research from University of Iowa physicists into how auroras on Earth are created was turned into a video distributed worldwide by the media company, Seeker. The video includes animation from an illustrator in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa.

Greg Carmichael, co-director of the Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research, assisted in the creation of the first Air Quality and Climate Bulletin by the World Meteorological Organization. The bulletin discusses where air patterns are improving and deteriorating around the globe.

In this perspective column, Christine A. Ogren, professor of education, writes that although the pandemic has added to teachers’ summer stress, the fact is that teachers never really get the summers “off” — even though this is a popular misconception.

In this column, J. Stacey Klutts, clinical associate professor of pathology in the Carver College of Medicine, explains why vaccines — and masks — are so important, and why delta is different and more dangerous.

Gabriele Villarini, director of IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering at the University of Iowa, co-authored a commentary, published in the journal Nature Climate Change on the effects of climate change and human disturbance on stream flow around Earth.

A University of Iowa physicist is part of a research team that has won funding from the U.S. Department of Energy to continue to advance quantum science and technology. Michael Flatté, professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, is a collaborator on the research team that received $5.4 million in new funding from the DOE’s Office of Science. The funding supports researchers who are...

Caroline Stefanie Clay will be joining the faculty of the UI's Department of Theatre Arts in fall 2021 as lead acting professor of the MFA acting program. Clay has performed on Broadway in Little Foxes, Doubt, and other shows, with film and television credits including the role of Cece Colvin, The Matchmaker on Grey's Anatomy, as well as roles on Shameless, The Knick, Law & Order: SVU, House of...

Alfred L. Martin Jr., assistant professor of media studies, authored this essay about the history of Black gayness in television and how representation can signal acceptance and normalcy that can be important for Black queer boys and men.

Corinne Peek-Asa, a professor in the University of Iowa’s Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, discusses how as COVID-19 spread more readily through communities of color, an increase in traffic deaths was probably a result of the compounding of existing inequities.