Diane Hauser, director of advising in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS), is the recipient of the 2018 Lola Lopes Award for Undergraduate Student Advocacy.

A faculty team at the University of Iowa will create a summer research program in evolutionary science for undergraduate students in the United States. The Research Experiences for Undergraduates award, from the U.S. National Science Foundation, will support 10 students each summer to partner on projects with UI faculty in the Departments of Anthropology, Biology, and Earth and Environmental...

Far from the Hollywood Hills and the bright lights of Broadway, the entertainment industry has found an unexpected hotbed for storytelling in the heart of the Midwest. The University of Iowa has attracted writers, actors, directors, and other artists—all seeking to hone their craft in a flourishing creative community.

A University of Iowa-led research team has identified a brain-wave marker associated with aggression in young children. The finding could lead to earlier identification of toddlers with aggressive tendencies before the behavior becomes more ingrained in adolescence. Results published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.

After graduating from the University of Iowa with a degree in political science, George Peterson’s journey led him to become the first director of dive programs at California’s Monterey Bay Aquarium.

Shehroze Farooqi studies internet security and privacy, with a special interest in Facebook and Twitter. Last year, a study he co-authored about fake “likes” on Facebook garnered international praise. Today, he’s focused on exposing fake accounts on Twitter, a topic that is of increasing interest to lawmakers.

University of Iowa researchers are studying megathrust earthquakes, the largest and generally most destructive seismic events on Earth. Funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and led by Bill Barnhart in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, the researchers will map the megathrust quake that struck Nepal in 2015.

Undergraduates in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Iowa helped design and build a miniature satellite that was recently launched into space. HaloSat will look for matter believed missing from the universe's birth. The project is led by Philip Kaaret, professor in physics and astronomy.

University of Iowa anthropologist Andrew Kitchen unravels human migration and history by studying genetic signatures of the pathogens and parasites that accompanied ancient peoples. His research has ranged from studying human ancestry in Newfoundland to the origin of North American dogs.

Undergraduate students at the University of Iowa traveled to Hawaii and studied the Kilauea volcano just two months before it erupted on May 3. The geology students made the trip to learn about Earth processes alien to the Midwest.

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded a $105,000 grant to Lori Branch, associate professor in the University of Iowa Department of English, to host a three-week seminar for 16 college and university faculty members on the UI campus.

University of Iowa faculty and students are participating in a historic NASA mission to study the sun. The Iowa team will study the solar wind to better understand its effects on weather around Earth. The Parker Solar Probe mission launched on Aug. 11.