This year, our students graduate under extraordinary circumstances that demand we step up to meet unprecedented challenges.

More than 5,400 Iowa students will be awarded degrees after the spring 2020 semester, and many graduates will participate in live-streamed virtual commencement ceremonies, which begin Thursday, May 14, with the College of Pharmacy and end on Friday, June 5, with the College of Dentistry.

Val Sheffield, the Roy J. Carver Chair in Molecular Genetics at the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, has been elected to the 2020 class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

University of Iowa faculty are using OpenHawks grants to create open educational resources to replace traditional textbooks or other costly course materials for their classes, saving students money and better serving class needs.

When University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics put out the call for additional face shields this week, the College of Engineering jumped to help, making more than 1,000 of them in their medical device labs.

Friday was Match Day – the day when graduating medical students across the country find out where they will do their residency training. But with the COVID-19 pandemic up ending everyday life across the country, it was possibly the most unusual Match Day ever.

The University of Iowa has 60 colleges and specialties in this year’s ranking, including 11 in the top 10.

By studying the sick hearts removed from four patients undergoing heart transplants, researchers have identified a protein and a signaling pathway that may contribute to sudden death in an inherited form of heart disease.

The University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine will honor 47 of its faculty as the college’s inaugural group of Impact Scholars—researchers who have made a major scientific impact over the course of their careers.

Peter Snyder has been named associate dean for faculty affairs and development in the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, effective March 1.

U.S. Navy Capt. Jeffrey D. Quinlan has been named chair and departmental executive officer of the Department of Family Medicine in the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine. He will begin Oct. 15 after completing a 28-year career in the U.S. Navy.

More than 6,100 undergraduate students at the University of Iowa were named to the dean’s list for the 2019 fall semester.