University of Iowa Professor Christopher Roy died Sunday, Feb. 10, in Iowa City, surrounded by his immediate family. Throughout his career, Roy devoted much of his attention to the arts of Burkina Faso and the Max and Betty Stanley Collection of African art.

The University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has named three professors as Collegiate Fellows, the college’s highest faculty honor, in recognition of their distinguished teaching, research, and service.

Tammie Walker has been appointed as the next director of the UI School of Music. She will start on July 1.

University of Iowa graduate student Andrew Tubbs uses personal experiences and his passion for the arts to support and advocate for people with disabilities on campus and in the community.

University of Iowa anthropology professor Katina Lillios and UI archeologists were involved in the largest study to date of ancient DNA from the Iberian Peninsula (modern-day Portugal and Spain). The study offers new insights into the populations that lived in this region over the last 8,000 years.

University of Iowa Professor of History and American Studies Stephen Warren donated his extensive archive to the Shawnee Tribe Cultural Center in Miami, Oklahoma. The cultural center is a community space where the Shawnee Tribe can tell their story and share their history with fellow tribal citizens and the public.

A University of Iowa researcher has been named a fellow to the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science. Marc Armstrong, professor in the Department of Geographical and Sustainability Sciences, will be honored as a UCGIS fellow at the organization’s June 2019 Symposium in Washington, D.C.

Nonmajor students took more than 10,000 semester hours of classes in the Division of Performing Arts during the 2017–18 academic year. There they develop new passions, stay connected to their art, and learn skills that translate to their future careers.

University of Iowa researchers are partnering with school districts in Cedar Rapids and Iowa City to enroll elementary-age children in novel research to better understand how they identify, and recognize, words. The project, led by Bob McMurray, professor in the UI’s Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, begins this spring.

The University of Iowa has 60 programs ranked in this year’s “U.S. News & World Report” graduate and professional school rankings, 11 with top 10 rankings in their categories.

With the demand for more Master of Social Work programs growing but resources for in-person programs around the state unavailable, the University of Iowa School of Social Work stepped in and created an online MSW program.

Researchers in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Iowa co-authored a research study that investigated vulnerabilities in 4G and 5G cellular phone networks. The researchers presented the findings at the Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium in San Diego.