For 40 years, an instrument designed and built at the University of Iowa has made discoveries in NASA’s historic Voyager 1 mission. Physics and astronomy professor Don Gurnett designed Voyager’s radio- and plasma-wave detector, which determined that the spacecraft became the first human-made object to leave the solar system.

A newly discovered Walt Whitman book, the UI Press–published Life and Adventures of Jack Engle, was recently reviewed in The New York Times. The review highlights the importance of resources like the UI's Whitman Archive and its WhitmanWeb collaboration with the university's International Writing Program.

University of Iowa researchers have a new explanation for how the universe changed from a place of darkness to one filled with light. They propose that black holes within galaxies produce winds strong enough to fling out matter, puncturing holes in galaxies that allow light to escape.

Iowa Writers’ Workshop alumnus and Pulitzer Prize finalist Adam Haslett sat down with “Iowa Now” to talk about creating a protected space for writing.

Deirdre Egan, assistant director of the Writing Center at the University of Iowa, uses her unique professional and academic experience to help members of the UI community become better writers.

Coming to campus after a relaxing summer can be a lot to handle. Here are eight useful tidbits to quickly digest.

An initiative to help Iowans maintain their hearing health is being launched at Fry Fest, right before the start of a new and exciting—and likely noisy—football season. HawkEars is the brainchild of UI audiology graduate student Kevin Kock.

The University of Iowa will have two viewing stations on campus Monday, Aug. 21, during the solar eclipse. Each will be equipped with telescopes and free eclipse-viewing glasses. Faculty, staff, and student experts will be on hand to demonstrate safe viewing techniques and answer questions.

Hien Nguyen, associate professor in chemistry, has been selected to receive the 2018 Horace S. Isbell Award in Carbohydrates by the American Chemical Society.

Professor Emeritus Julius Schmidt, whose contributions and mentoring garnered him the unofficial title “grandfather of cast iron sculpture,” passed away June 20. Schmidt’s family encourages UI faculty and staff who knew him and who plan to attend an Aug. 11 memorial to share brief memories during the short service.

Emily Drummer, a filmmaker pursuing her MFA in cinematic arts at the University of Iowa, received a Princess Grace Foundation Film Scholarship Honorarium for 2017.

“Jackson Pollock’s ‘Mural’: The Story of a Modern Masterpiece,” a documentary produced by and created at the University of Iowa, has been nominated for an Emmy Award by the Mid-America Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.