With state funding all but certain, hopes are high for a new University of Iowa College of Pharmacy building—which is in the planning stages—to replace the current structure.

From study abroad endeavors to international research and outreach, the UI International Programs (IP) annual report provides information on IP as well as an overview of the past year's activities, research, events, statistics, student and faculty achievements, photos, and more.

A University of Iowa phonetics website that has become an incredibly popular English as a Second Language (ESL) teaching tool is now available as a mobile application for iOS and Android.

The Operator Performance Laboratory in the UI College of Engineering and the UI REACH program in the UI College of Education are featured on the new Iowa edition of "BTN LiveBIG Iowa" airing Saturday Jan. 25, at 3 p.m. CST.

Paula Amad, associate professor in the Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature, is the 2014 recipient of the Katherine Singer Kovács Award for Outstanding Essay. Her winning composition discusses the "return-of-the-gaze" phenomenon in nonfiction film from the silent cinema period.

Since 2005, University of Iowa College of Education faculty scholars have been awarded more than $25 million in external funding. Current projects include everything from recruiting diverse doctoral students, to measuring the efficacy of play therapy, to an afterschool program encouraging girls to find strong role models in literature.

University of Iowa Master of Health Administration student and UI law alumna Darcelle Skeete has a strong foundation—and vision—for a successful career.

Tonya Peeples, UI professor of chemical and biochemical engineering, was appointed in 2013 as the College of Engineering's first associate dean for diversity and outreach. In that role, she is organizing the college's efforts to attract more women and minorities to engineering.

In support of President Obama's call to make college more available to low-income students, the University of Iowa has announced a new program targeting first generation students, and with good reason: about one-third of Iowa's students are the first in their families to go to college.

Johna Leddy, associate professor of chemistry, explored improving electrochemical systems such as batteries and fuels to make them more efficient energy sources as a Fall 2013 Obermann Fellow-in-Residence.

UI’s first MOOC is a six-week course offered through the International Writing Program that will use video lectures, live breakout sessions, and moderated online discussion to guide participants through Whitman’s epic poem, "Song of Myself."

The University of Iowa’s first MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), Every Atom: Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself, organized by the UI International Writing Program (IWP), offers participants everywhere the opportunity to read, consider, and discuss Whitman’s epic poem, and is free and open to anyone with an Internet connection.