Two years after receiving the award, Mary Charlton and Melissa Febos say they feel the university’s support of their work.

Forty-seven University of Iowa colleges and programs were recognized among the best in their field in the U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate Schools rankings. Six of these programs received a top-10 ranking in this year’s report.

The prestigious honor recognizes faculty nationally and internationally renowned for their scholarship, teaching, and service.

An Iowa assistant professor has gotten a five-year, $550,000 award from the National Science Foundation.

NASA has awarded Professor Greg Howes a $525,311 grant to study the plasma physics of magnetic reconnection in turbulent solar wind.

Justin Cosner, a lecturer in the UI Department of Rhetoric, studied the use of role-playing games as a teaching aid and had his findings published.

In his first novel, the Iranian American poet Kaveh Akbar asks whether our pain matters, and to whom, and how it might be made to matter more. Akbar is an associate professor of English and director of the English and creative writing major at Iowa.

NASA delegates visited the University of Iowa on March 7-8 to learn about the largest externally funded research project in institutional history.

Aron Aji, director of the Translation programs at Iowa, was named a 2024 National Book Awards judge. He has translated poetry and prose by Turkish writers, including Bilge Karasu, Ferit Edgu, Murathan Mungan, and Ebru Ojen.

Three College of Liberal Arts and Sciences faculty members recently received awards to support their respective research projects during the next academic year. Jenna Supp-Montgomerie, religious studies and communication studies; Stephanie Miracle, dance; and Jonathan Wilcox, English each received a Developmental Studies Hybridoma Bank (DSHB) Humanities Scholar Award.

NASA's Roman Technology Fellowship will supply $500,000 over two years to support their research in space-based instrumentation.