Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
UI faculty, staff, and students recognized with First-Generation Awards
Thursday, November 11, 2021
.Four Hawkeyes were recognized at the First-Generation Students Awards and Recognition Ceremony Nov. 11 as part of the weeklong National First-Generation College Celebration.
5 honored with 2021 Hawkeye Distinguished Veterans Award
Thursday, November 11, 2021
Five University of Iowa alumni and faculty who served their country in roles ranging from medical and preventative care for military personnel to organizing air war efforts during the Gulf War are being honored virtually with the 2021 Hawkeye Distinguished Veterans Award.
UI professor creates intellectual hub for Korean studies
Wednesday, November 3, 2021
Hyaeweol Choi helped create the Korean Studies Research Network, an intellectual hub intended to expand the study and visibility of Korean history, society, and culture in the Midwest.
Hollingworth named to Big Ten Equality Coalition Executive Committee
Wednesday, September 22, 2021
Liz Hollingworth, educational leadership professor and interim DEO in the University of Iowa College of Education, has been named to the Big Ten Equality Coalition Executive Committee for 2021-22.
Welcome to the fall 2021 semester, Hawkeyes!
Thursday, August 26, 2021
The University of Iowa welcomed students back to campus for the start of the fall 2021 semester and celebrated the return to an in-person experience with numerous OnIowa! events to help get them acclimated to campus.
Nugent named editor of The Iowa Review
Monday, August 2, 2021
Lynne Nugent has been named editor of The Iowa Review. She is the seventh editor in the half-century history of The Iowa Review and the first nonwhite person (she is Asian American) to serve in that role.
The long road to more accurate portrayals of Black LGBTQ people on television
Thursday, June 24, 2021
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.
UI leaders, students honored at Celebration of Excellence and Achievement Among Women
Wednesday, April 7, 2021
Two exceptional female University of Iowa leaders and educators were awarded the Susan C. Buckley Distinguished Achievement Award for Staff and May Brodbeck Distinguished Achievement Award for Faculty at the University of Iowa’s annual Celebration of Excellence and Achievement Among Women on April 7
An Author Replies To The Unspeakable In Her 'Elegy' For Lynching Victim Mary Turner
Monday, March 22, 2021
A March 7 story about the trial of Derek Chauvin, the police officer whose May 2020 killing of George Floyd ignited a nationwide racial reckoning, shows why Rachel Marie-Crane Williams' new book is so essential right now. Williams is an assistant professor in the School of Art and Art History and Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies.
Sara Sanders named dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Thursday, March 11, 2021
Sara Sanders has been named dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) after serving in the role as interim since July 2020. She will begin in the permanent role on March 15.
Reimagining Campus Safety Action Committee seeking feedback
Thursday, February 25, 2021
The University of Iowa is asking community members for feedback on three campus safety prototypes developed by the Reimagining Campus Safety Action Committee.
UI professor separates fact from fiction in ‘Judas And The Black Messiah’
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Simon Balto, assistant professor of history and African American studies at the University of Iowa, who’s currently working on a biography of Fred Hampton, says as beautifully as the film was shot and acted, “We didn’t really get a movie that had a lot to say coherently about what the Panthers were doing and why that was important.”
Pagination