The University of Iowa has 60 programs ranked in this year’s “U.S. News & World Report” graduate and professional school rankings, 11 with top 10 rankings in their categories.

Montserrat (Montse) Fuentes, dean and professor in the College of Humanities & Sciences at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, has been named the University of Iowa’s new executive vice president and provost. She will begin on June 28.

UI Political Science Professor Caroline Tolbert was recognized as one of the 400 most-cited political science faculty members in the country in the PS: Political Science article, "The Political Science 400: With Citation Counts by Cohort, Gender, and Subfield."

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has named six recipients of the Collegiate Teaching Award for 2018-2019.

Tianbao Yang, assistant professor in the UI Department of Computer Science, won an NSF CAREER award. The five-year, $529,000 award will fund research to advance machine learning with complex objectives and constraints by designing and analyzing efficient and effective optimization algorithms for addressing computational challenges in new machine learning paradigms.

Jane Nachtman, physics and astronomy professor at the University of Iowa, is profiled for her achievements in particle physics and for her leadership and mentorship to women seeking careers in science.

Danny Tallon is a third-year physics major, a published co-author on two scientific papers, and a cadet in the University of Iowa’s Air Force ROTC program who aims to have a military career studying space—or perhaps visiting it himself.

The University of Iowa Office of the Provost has selected five interdisciplinary initiatives to receive up to $300K over three years.

Four University of Iowa faculty members were honored recently with the 2018 President and Provost Award for Teaching Excellence in recognition of their years of outstanding teaching.

More than 450 undergraduate students at the University of Iowa were named to the president’s list for the 2018 fall semester.

More than 5,600 undergraduate students at the University of Iowa were named to the dean’s list for the 2018 fall semester.

The University of Iowa awarded more than 1,500 degrees at the close of the 2018 fall semester. Download the list from "Iowa Now."