Bob McMurray, professor of psychological and brain sciences, was appointed to to the F. Wendell Miller Professorship.

Cesare Tinelli, professor of computer science, was appointed to the F. Wendell Miller Professorship.

Professor Kristy Nabhan-Warren was named the V.O. and Elizabeth Kahl Figge Chair in Catholic Studies on Sept. 23.

Kristen Radtke, a 2012 graduate of the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa, won the 2019 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant. Given annually by the Whiting Foundation, the grant awards $40,000 to a writer "in the process of completing a book of deeply researched and imaginatively composed nonfiction."

Ted Abel has been named chair and departmental executive officer of the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology.

The New York Times features research on a parasitic wasp by Department of Biology Associate Professor Andrew Forbes and graduate student Anna Ward. The crypt-keeper wasp preys on at least seven other unrelated species of wasps to better ensure its survival. Biology Letters published the paper.

Sue Hettmansperger, professor emeritus in the School of Art and Art History, will present a one-person exhibition of her artwork (painting and collage) at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania.

New Scientist features a study by Department of Biology associate professor Andrew Forbes and graduate student Anna Ward that report a type of parasitic wasp, the crypt-keeper wasp, preys on at least seven other, unrelated species of wasps to better ensure its survival.

Cornelia Lang, associate professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, speaks to The Atlantic about mysterious filaments emanating from the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

Calvin Hennick, who earned a bachelor's degree in English in 2004 from the University of Iowa, has won the Pushcart Editors' Book Award for his new book, Once More To The Rodeo: A Memoir.

Omar Chowdhury, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, has won a Young Faculty Award from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to study threats to cellular phone networks. Chowdury receives $497,000 for two years.

The University of Iowa's International Writing Program welcomes 29 writers from 26 countries to its 11-week Fall Residency for writing and cultural exchange, hosted with support from the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. State Department and the UI in Iowa City, a UNESCO City of Literature.