Will Jennings, associate professor of instruction, received the Rhetoric Department’s Doug Trank Memorial Award for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring.

Cecilia Fasano, a PhD student in the UI Department of Physics and Astronomy, has earned a three-year Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) fellowship from NASA's Astrophysics Division to advance her research into making and assessing UV/X-ray diffraction gratings, which will be used in future NASA missions.

Professor Christopher-Rasheem McMillan of the University of Iowa has been selected by the New York University Center for Ballet and the Arts for its prestigious Resident Fellowship.

University of Iowa Interim President John Keller has appointed Meenakshi (Gigi) Durham faculty ombudsperson in the Office of the Ombudsperson. Durham will replace Rachel Williams, who served in the role for three years.

A University of Iowa team has found that babies twitch during a sleep stage called quiet sleep, not just during REM sleep. The results may show there’s more communication between snoozing infants’ brains and motor systems than previously known.

Physicists led by the University of Iowa demonstrated through experiments how auroras – the famed northern and southern lights -- are created.

The University of Iowa awarded more than 6,100 degrees at the close of the spring 2021 semester.

University of Iowa Professor Deborah Whaley has co-authored a new book about the field of comics studies.

Physicists led by the University of Iowa report definitive evidence of how auroras are created. In experiments, the physicists demonstrated the physical mechanisms for the acceleration of electrons by Alfven waves under conditions corresponding to Earth’s auroral magnetosphere.

Deborah Whaley, professor of African American Studies, was one of seven scholars chosen for the HistoryMakers 2021 Faculty Innovation in Pedagogy and Teaching fellowships.

Stanley Perlman, professor of microbiology and immunology and Mark Stinski Chair in Virology, and Michelle Scherer, professor of civil and environmental engineering and Donald E. Bently Professor of Engineering, have been named recipients of the 2021 University of Iowa Distinguished Chair.

University of Iowa biologists discovered an invasive species of snails in previously unknown locations using a new technique that detects traces of DNA left by the aquatic animals. The finding shows the technique, called eDNA, can detect and control incursions by other invasive species.