Program champions top early career teacher-scholars in chemistry, physics, and astronomy by providing discretionary research awards.

Teresa Mangum, director of the Obermann Center, has been elected Secretary of the National Humanities Alliance Board of Directors, the largest humanities advocacy group in the country, located in Washington, D.C.

Hawkeye Caucus Day brings 85 University of Iowa students representing 50 UI programs to the State Capitol in Des Moines to shake hands and exchange ideas with state legislators.

UI anthropologist Russell Ciochon offers his expert opinion on the biological accuracy of the ape that resembles an overgrown orangutan in Disney's new movie, The Jungle Book.

University of Iowa researchers are traveling to Iceland to better understand sand dunes found all over the planet Mars. They hope the Iceland site will show how Martian sands have changed, which could yield more clues about Mars's geological history and the possibility of discovering microbial life entombed there.

The University of Iowa’s Department of Cinematic Arts has partnered with the Pomerantz Career Center to host a panel for film students featuring UI alumni who studied in fields related to film and cinema.

Twenty-four graduate colleges and programs at the University of Iowa are listed among the 25 best in the nation, according to the latest rankings from "U.S. News & World Report."

We all know that the University of Iowa has rivals across the fields, courts, pools, and tracks of the Big Ten Conference, but lesser known is the long-standing, high-impact collaborations the UI has with these same universities.

The discovery of a new T. rex fossil suggests that the tyrannosaur “honed its sensory toolbox before it gained massive size,” says University of Iowa faculty member Christopher Brochu, who studies the evolutionary history of dinosaurs.

Usha Mallik, professor of physics and astronomy in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, plays a key role in ATLAS, a particle physics experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN that is searching for new discoveries in the head-on collisions of protons of extraordinarily high energy.

University of Iowa student Caroline Wadman and her faculty mentor, Gerene Denning, will head to Washington, D.C., to participate in a selective research showcase called Posters on the Hill. Wadman's project focuses on ATV-related deaths and injuries and will inform educational materials.

A team of UI students is growing hydroponic lettuce in one of the university's biology buildings as part of a sustainability contest sponsored by the Tippie College of Business and Frontier Naturals.