As the heat cranks up, so do the sounds of summer. Whether you’re cheering at the ballpark, attending a music festival, or simply taking care or your lawn, the decibel level of the great outdoors can have short-term and long-term effects on your hearing.

The Rhetoric Society of America (RSA) has announced E Cram as the winner of its 2023 Book Award for their 2022 work titled Violent Inheritance: Sexuality, Land, Energy, and the Making of the North American West. This award is presented annually to the best publication by an RSA member published during the current academic year.

The University of Iowa is in the beginning stages of planning for the Department of Dance to vacate aging Halsey Hall and relocate to the Performing Arts Annex, the renamed former art museum that sits among other arts buildings on the west side of the Iowa River.

Mathematics department administrator Margaret Driscol has worked for the University of Iowa for more than half a century.

Lang is lending her expertise to help a group charged with improving programming and initiatives supported by the NSF, an independent federal agency that supports science and engineering.

The National Science Foundation has awarded Assistant Professor Tom Folland a $604,691 grant for a project that will determine how certain classes of crystals can be used to control both direction, and orientation of light waves. These materials can form a key part of creating advanced optical technologies including laser imaging, optical biosensors, and quantum optics.

Durham, a media and gender studies researcher in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, was interviewed in the popular documentary.

This spring, more than 5,400 University of Iowa students will receive their degrees during in-person and livestreamed commencement ceremonies, beginning with the College of Pharmacy’s Doctor of Pharmacy ceremony May 11 and concluding with the College of Dentistry’s ceremony June 2.

A University of Iowa assistant professor has received a grant to study how prenatal patterns in physical activity affect the health of the child.

The University of Iowa Council on Teaching has selected 28 teaching assistants as recipients of the 2022-23 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.

Five University of Iowa faculty members—Dawn Barker Anderson, Loyce Arthur, Megan Knight, Emily Mozena, and Rachel Young—were named recipients of the Hubbard-Walder Award for Excellence in Teaching.