Hawkeye High-Five is a recognition program that allows faculty and staff across the university to give a “high-five” to a colleague for their contributions, teamwork, or extra effort. More than 200 high-fives were awarded in November. Read the recognition given to some of those recipients.

As the holiday season ramps up, stress can feel unavoidable. University of Iowa psychological and brain sciences professor Jason Radley, a global and national expert on the neurobiology of stress, suggests some ways to help.

Anna Stanhewicz, UI associate professor in the Department of Health, Sport, and Human Physiology, won the 2026 Henry Pickering Bowditch Award from the American Physiology Society.

UI political science professor Dr. Sara McLaughlin Mitchell, an expert on international conflict and cooperation, appeared on the station's Talking History podcast.

A healthy higher education system depends not only on producing employable graduates but also on cultivating citizens and leaders who can interpret uncertainty, question assumptions, and connect ideas across disciplines, writes UI engineering professor Daniel McGehee, director of the Driving Safety Research Institute.

John Colloton, the namesake of University of Iowa Health Care’s Colloton Pavilion, died Nov. 14 at age 94. His vision and leadership spanned more than four decades, transforming patient care and establishing UI Health Care as one of the world’s premier medical centers. Read more about his life and legacy.

Jay Holstein, emeritus professor in the Department of Religious Studies, died Nov. 14 at age 87. For more than five decades at the University of Iowa, Holstein taught tens of thousands of students and became one of the institution’s most celebrated educators.

The history and African American Studies professor published her first book in June.

As the University of Iowa welcomed its second-largest first-year class this fall, faculty across campus are utilizing resources and new teaching approaches that work for large enrollment courses.

Michael J. Welsh, MD, University of Iowa professor of internal medicine, has won the 2025 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award for his fundamental research on cystic fibrosis (CF), which paved the way to new therapies that have transformed the health and life expectancy of people with CF.

Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz received the $1.1M award to continue her work to support Native Nations across the country.