The acclaimed national Colored Conventions Project has named two members of the UI campus community co-directors of its first pilot satellite partner, and a new course gives students an opportunity to rediscover this little-known part of Iowa history.

Bill Barnhart, seismologist and assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, talked about the first-ever detection of tremors on Mars.

Graduate students at the University of Iowa visited with children in Muscatine, Iowa, to introduce them to science concepts, as part of a collaboration between the UI and the Musser Public Library in Muscatine.

Bill Barnhart, a seismologist and assistant professor in earth and environmental sciences, appeared on Iowa Public Radio's "River to River" program to talk about the first-ever detection of a quake on Mars.

The University of Iowa’s Office of Sustainability and the Environment enters a new era of academics, research, and involvement on campus and in the community under the leadership of Stratis Giannakouros.

Anna Ward, a fourth-year graduate student in the Department of Biology, has won research funding from the American Genetic Association to reconstruct the evolutionary history wasps that cause a type of tumor on oak trees in North America.

University of Iowa physicists use a special furnace to produce a key piece of equipment whose manufacturing process was once lost to history. The UI is one of a handful of academic institutions worldwide with a furnace capable of reproducing the magnetic instrument, called a ring core.

University of Iowa researchers have uncovered a link between sleep apnea and multiple myeloma, a rare but aggressive blood cancer. Their findings could improve treatment of the disease.

Margaret Carrel, UI associate professor of geographical and sustainability sciences, is one of 32 winners of a prestigious Andrew Carnegie Fellowship. Each recipient in the 2019 class of fellows will receive a grant of up to $200,000 to research, write, and publish in the humanities and social sciences.

Meenakshi Gigi Durham, Tricia Kroll, and Susan Junis were recognized for their exemplary leadership, accomplishments, and service during the Celebration of Excellence and Achievement Among Women ceremony. Eight students were also honored.

Martha Kirby, senior academic advisor in the Department of Political Science received the 2019 Lola Lopes Award for Undergraduate Student Advocacy, which recognizes administrators, staff, or faculty outside of their teaching role who serve as strong and effective advocates for undergraduate students and the undergraduate experience.

Director of the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program Christopher Merrill was one of 168 winners of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation’s 2019 fellowships. The recipients, announced April 10, were chosen from a group of almost 3,000 applicants.