The American Association of University Women (AAUW) awarded a 2015-16 American Fellowship to Shelby S. Putt, a doctoral candidate in anthropology at the University of Iowa.

Robinson will receive the GADE Student Award for Teaching in Social Work at a national conference in Denver, Colorado, in October.

Lyn Redington has been named the University of Iowa’s new assistant vice president and dean of students. She starts at the UI on Aug. 19.

Rajan Sah, MD, PhD, assistant professor of internal medicine in the UI Carver College of Medicine, has recently received a three-year, $400,000 Carver Trust Young Investigator award to study the role of fat-cell expansion in the development of insulin resistance and diabetes.

University of Iowa Vice President for Research and Economic Development Daniel A. Reed is playing a key role in shaping the United States government’s plans for developing and deploying exascale technology by 2023.

Engineering alumnus Sajan Goud Lingala (Ph.D. 2013, biomedical engineering) has received the 2015 Rex Montgomery Dissertation Award for his thesis “Novel Adaptive Reconstruction Schemes for Accelerated Myocardial Perfusion MRI."

First-year students at the University of Iowa will move into the residence halls Tuesday-Thursday, Aug 18-20. Clinton Street will be rerouted and there's a new plan for students moving into west side halls.

China has about 100 million children learning English and a pair of the University of Iowa students have started a new business to help them.

The University of Iowa Presidential Search and Screen Committee will hold “airport interviews” for nine candidates on Tuesday, Aug. 11, and Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2015.

By providing workers with a portable pedaling device, Lucas Carr, an assistant professor in the Department of Health and Human Physiology and member of the Obesity Research and Education Initiative at the UI, discovered people who were once sitting all day were now moving at work without even getting up.

The University of Iowa’s Tippie College of Business has endorsed a White House initiative designed to encourage more women college students to consider majoring in business.

Researchers in the UI Department of Pharmacology have received a pair of research grants from the NIH totaling $3.4 million to study new ways to treat obesity, diabetes, and high blood pressure.