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.

Two separate research groups at the University of Iowa are helping design, build, and test subdetectors that will be part of an upgrade to the world’s most sophisticated particle detector. The teams are led by UI faculty Usha Mallik, Jane Nachtman, and Yasar Onel.

University of Iowa researchers have found that older people are less likely than younger people to realize when they’ve made a mistake. The finding offers new insight into how aging adults perceive their decisions and view their performance.

The University of Iowa campus played host in July to the nation’s most talented high school–aged artists and writers as part of the Belin-Blank Center’s inaugural Summer Art Residency and Summer Writing Residency.

A recent UI graduate who grew up in the economic collapse of the Soviet Union developed his love of art at Iowa and has started a business selling his work with the help of the university’s entrepreneurial resources.

Each year dozens of Iowa faculty, staff, students, and alumni get their work published, win prizes, draw accolades, and earn awards. Here are some highlights from the many writing and writing-related programs in the 2017–18 academic year.

UI faculty and students have designed a web-based game that can be played by anyone with a smartphone and a Fitbit.

So many serious writers are now fixing their sights on television that the University of Iowa, home of the venerable Iowa Writers’ Workshop, has launched a postgraduate TV-writing fellowship and will begin a workshop focused on the specialization this fall.

UI faculty have won grants through the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development program.

UI alumni and Bettendorf, Iowa, natives Scott Beck and Bryan Woods are finalizing a deal with Twentieth Century Fox to adapt Stephen King’s “The Boogeyman” for a new horror film. Beck and Woods’s script for this year’s A Quiet Place, co-written by director and co-star John Krasinski, made $328 million.