University of Iowa Staff Council’s service-recognition program acknowledges all professional and scientific and merit supervisory exempt and confidential 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.

Kevin Kregel, University of Iowa executive vice provost and senior associate provost for faculty and professor of human physiology, recently was named vice president-elect for science policy at the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB).

Kevin Kregel has been appointed executive vice provost and senior associate provost for faculty at the University of Iowa. Kregel most recently served as associate provost for faculty, a position he held since September 2014. He began the new role July 15.

The UI is continuing its exploration of a potential public-private partnership (P3) with its utility system, moving forward from the request for qualification stage to the request for proposal stage. The campus community will have two new opportunities to share feedback about the proposal.

Corinne Peek-Asa, associate dean for research for the University of Iowa College of Public Health and professor in the Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, will deliver Iowa’s 37th annual Presidential Lecture on Feb. 16, 2020.

Death notices for current and retired UI employees. Links to online obituaries provided when available.

University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital is listed among the nation’s best in six specialties, according to the new 2019-20 Best Children’s Hospitals rankings published online by “U.S. News & World Report,” the global authority in hospital rankings and consumer advice.

Four distinguished College of Liberal Arts and Sciences alumni have been honored as Alumni Fellows and invited to campus to speak to classes, meet with small groups of faculty and students, and make a public presentation based on their experiences since leaving the University of Iowa.

For nearly 10 years, the UI’s seven cluster areas reported to the Office of the Provost. With faculty recruitment in the clusters now completed, they have achieved a point of maturation that allows them to function independently of direct oversight.

The Board of Regents, State of Iowa, voted at its June 2019 meeting to extend the contract for University of Iowa President Bruce Harreld by two-and-a-half years.

The Board of Regents, State of Iowa, approved a 3.9% increase for undergraduate resident tuition and a 1% increase for nonresident undergraduates at the University of Iowa for the 2019–20 academic year.

Factoring in various cost and performance metrics, the University of Iowa leads the way among Big Ten schools when it comes to effectively spending public dollars and tuition funds on educating its students, according to The Center Square's analysis of the publicly available data.