Dana Thomann, University of Iowa associate professor of instruction in Rhetoric, has been named the 2026 Hudson Prize winner for her story collection, Erratics.

University of Iowa neuroscientists find in a new study that the brain waves of parents and their child are synced when the parent combines speech with gestures during instruction. The findings could help improve a child’s ability to learn and develop.

Ashley Howard, University of Iowa assistant professor of history, has been named a 2026 Mellon Emerging Faculty Leader. The recognition comes from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the nation’s leading funder of the arts, culture, and humanities.

The University of Iowa is seeking permission from the Iowa Board of Regents to begin planning a modernization and expansion of the Iowa Memorial Union Parking Ramp, making it easier and safer for people to drive and walk in a busy area of campus.

A University of Iowa-led chemistry team has developed a simpler, less expensive way to isolate terbium, a rare-earth element essential to technologies ranging from smartphone screens to X-rays. The breakthrough could expand access to this critical material, potentially accelerating advances in in quantum technologies, electronics, medicine, and other applications.

The Health Sciences Academic Building now houses three top-ranked programs — Communications Sciences and Disorders; Health, Sport, and Human Physiology; and Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences — all under one roof.

A research team co-led by the University of Iowa has developed a new approach for sensors made out of nanodiamonds to more accurately measure the temperature in cells. The findings could improve tools for studying disease, such as cancer.

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Award-winning author and Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate Tony Tulathimutte is the inaugural recipient of the Jack Galef Literary Arts Award. The new literary prize administered by the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop is one of the largest literary prizes awarded in the United States.

A University of Iowa-led research team has shown in detail how a region of the brain called the frontoparietal cortex manages the flow of information and guides decisions and responses. The findings may inform future research into how this process is altered in neurological and psychiatric disorders.

The Wendell Johnson Speech and Hearing Center was the home of leading communication sciences and disorders work for more than 50 years.