The University of Iowa has won the single largest externally funded research project in its history, a $115 million contract awarded to Craig Kletzing, professor in the UI Department of Physics and Astronomy. Kletzing’s team will study the connection between the magnetic fields of the Earth and sun.

It’s no coincidence that several researchers from Harvard recently migrated to the UI. Drawn by the Iowa Neuroscience Institute, Aaron Boes, Tracey Cho, Joel Geerling, and Joseph Glykys cite the collaborative environment, support for young investigators, and the opportunity to launch independent labs among the reasons they chose UI.

The Librarian of Congress announced the appointment of Joy Harjo, Iowa Writers’ Workshop alumna, as the nation’s 23rd Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2019-20. Harjo will begin her duties in the fall, opening the library’s annual literary season on Sept. 19 with a reading of her work.

Iowa Writers' Workshop alumna Joy Harjo was named U.S. poet laureate, the first Native American poet to hold the post.

Iowa Writers' Workshop alumna Joy Harjo was named the first Native American U.S. poet laureate. Harjo received an MFA from the UI in 1970.

Four distinguished College of Liberal Arts and Sciences alumni have been honored as Alumni Fellows and invited to campus to speak to classes, meet with small groups of faculty and students, and make a public presentation based on their experiences since leaving the University of Iowa.

This year’s €100,000 International Dublin Literary Award was won by 33-year-old U.S. author Emily Ruskovich for her debut novel, Idaho.

Maurine Neiman, associate professor in the Department of Biology, comments on a study contending that sexual reproduction in multi-cellular organisms may have provided evolutionary defense against cancer and other malignant cells.

Researchers at the University of Iowa and the U.S. Geological Survey have found that data gathered from orbiting satellites can provide more accurate information on the impact of large earthquakes, which, in turn, can help provide more effective emergency response.

The University of Iowa Libraries has awarded 15 grants for Open Educational Resource (OER) projects for the 2019-2020 academic year. OpenHawks is a campus-wide grant program that funds faculty efforts to replace current textbooks with OERs for enhanced student success.

Christopher Brochu, a paleontologist at the University of Iowa, weighs in on a recent study published in Paleobiology in which researchers found signs that the ancestors of the crocodile family had remarkably active metabolisms — and that the creatures evolved them far earlier than expected.

University of Iowa physicist Donald Gurnett retired May 31 after more than 60 years as a student, teacher, and researcher at the UI. Gurnett’s career in space research and exploration began at the dawn of the Space Age and includes seminal discoveries about Earth and other planets.