Campus

Longevity Awards: January 2013

Friday, June 7, 2013
UI Staff Council’s service recognition program acknowledges all professional and scientific and merit staff who have reached 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, or 50 years of continuous service. Longevity Award winners receive a certificate and letter of appreciation from the Office of the President.

Power Plant steam blows scheduled for Monday

Friday, June 7, 2013
University of Iowa Facilities Management will conduct a series of steam blows at the east side of the Power Plant starting at 8:30 a.m. on Monday, June 10 and ending by 4 p.m.

Achievements: UI faculty, staff making news

Friday, June 7, 2013
University staff, faculty, students, and alumni are accomplishing great things every day. See who’s making news with awards, publications, promotion and tenure, and more.

Recent deaths

Friday, June 7, 2013
Death notices for current and retired UI employees. Links to online obituaries provided when available.

Dry now, maybe wet later

Thursday, June 6, 2013
University of Iowa officials say they’re keeping a close eye on current forecasts for potentially heavy rain over the weekend and next week, but for now they say current flood protection measures are working as intended.
Strange days: The lizard was among a menagerie of animals inhabiting South East Asia during the Eocene

Ciochon discusses extinct lizard named after the Doors' singer Jim Morrison

Thursday, June 6, 2013
UI anthropology professor Russell Ciochon talks about a study he co-authored which describes a six-foot lizard that roamed South East Asia from 36 to 40 years million years ago and that has been named after The Doors' singer Jim Morrison.

Creating currents of electricity and hope

Thursday, June 6, 2013
The 2013 selection for the One Community, One Book annual reading program tells the inspiring story of a Malawian man’s determination to bring power and freedom to his village.

Former Congressman Leach appointed to UI law faculty

Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Former U.S. Congressman Jim Leach has been appointed a visiting professor of law and the University of Iowa Chair in Public Affairs, UI President Sally Mason announced at the Board of Regents meeting Wednesday.
The IMU with flood walls surrounding it

Coralville Lake should crest well below top of dam

Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Coralville Lake is now expected to crest at about 708 feet—4 feet below the top of the dam—before dropping by Friday, more encouraging news as the University of Iowa begins putting final touches on its protective measures.
A young man wearing a red dress shirt and a black tie smiling at the camera.

Heckman named UI's first Beinecke scholar

Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Derek Heckman, a University of Iowa junior from Peoria, Ill., has been named a 2013 Beinecke Scholar—the UI’s first winner of the fellowship designed to support advanced study in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.

UI presents inaugural Information Technology Leadership Award

Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Doug Eltoft, chief technology officer for the College of Engineering, received the inaugural IT Leadership Award in recognition of his visionary capacity to imagine, collaborate, design, and create an ever-changing and robust computing environment.
flood barriers around IATL

With drier forecast, UI remains vigilant while looking to rest of summer

Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Continued favorable weather forecasts, dropping levels in the Coralville reservoir, and lower-than-anticipated flow and elevation of the Iowa River through Iowa City are giving the University of Iowa a chance to catch its collective breath and begin taking a longer view of campus operations through the summer.