Each year, the Board of Regents, State of Iowa, honors six faculty and six staff at the University of Iowa for their extraordinary contributions and sustained record of excellence. Each award recipient receives $1,000 and is honored at a special awards ceremony and celebration.

The Society of Professional Journalists on May 12 named The Daily Iowan the 2019 Best All-Around Daily Student Newspaper in the country.

The Colere Saxophone Quartet, composed of three University of Iowa doctoral of music arts students and a recent UI alumnus, won a gold medal May 10 at the 47th annual Fischoff National Chamber Music Association Competition.

University of Iowa faculty members Simon Balto, assistant professor of History and African American Studies, and Richard Brent Turner, professor of Religious Studies and African American Studies, have been named 2020 fellows of the American Council of Learned Societies.

The University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences named seven recipients of the Collegiate Teaching Awards for 2019-2020. The awardees, chosen by the college’s Teaching Awards Committee from nominations by students and colleagues, are Nicole Esposito (Music), Jasper Halekas (Physics and Astronomy), Cris Lira (Spanish and Portuguese), Ambrose Lo (Statistics and Actuarial Science)...

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.

Professor of Physics and Astronomy Cornelia Lang will serve as the associate dean for undergraduate education, and Professor of Biology Joshua Weiner will become associate dean for research. Both appointments are effective July 1, 2020.

The UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences named two faculty members to the honor of distinguished associate professor of Instruction for 2020-2022: Pilar Marcé of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and Rosemary Moore of the departments of Classics and History.

Biological agents at the University of Iowa’s Developmental Studies Hybridoma Bank are being enlisted in the quest to fight the novel coronavirus.

Four University of Iowa faculty members have received the 2020 President and Provost Award for Teaching Excellence in recognition of their years of outstanding teaching. The recipients are: Nancy Abram, Stella Burch Elias, Julia Kleinschmit, and Suresh M.L. Raghavan.

Faith leaders from across the state, including Robert Cargill, UI associate professor of classics and religious studies, look at how practices are changing and aiding the faithful during COVID-19.