Margaret Carrel, UI associate professor of geographical and sustainability sciences, is one of 32 winners of a prestigious Andrew Carnegie Fellowship. Each recipient in the 2019 class of fellows will receive a grant of up to $200,000 to research, write, and publish in the humanities and social sciences.

Eating breakfast every day has always been considered an important part of a healthy lifestyle, but a new study from the University of Iowa shows just how important it is.

An Iowa Institute for Biomedical Imaging (IIBI) research team won best machine-learning paper at the International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2019) recently in Venice, Italy.

University of Iowa Research Technology Compliance Specialist Gabriella Perez was one of six delegates selected from a nationally-competitive pool to participate in the National Science Foundation’s Trusted CI Open Science Cybersecurity Fellows .Program.

UI alumni Tanner Salinas, a graduate of the UI REACH program, is a guest services employee for the Chicago Cubs. “In my mind, I think, yes, I have a disability, but I can do whatever you can do ...,’’ says Salinas, who has cerebral palsy.

Meenakshi Gigi Durham, Tricia Kroll, and Susan Junis were recognized for their exemplary leadership, accomplishments, and service during the Celebration of Excellence and Achievement Among Women ceremony. Eight students were also honored.

Aiden Bettine, the UI's first Humanities for the Public Good graduate assistant, is creating the Transgender Oral History Project of Iowa to collect, preserve, and celebrate the lives and stories of transgender and gender non-conforming people across Iowa and build a digital archive of transgender history.

Martha Kirby, senior academic advisor in the Department of Political Science received the 2019 Lola Lopes Award for Undergraduate Student Advocacy, which recognizes administrators, staff, or faculty outside of their teaching role who serve as strong and effective advocates for undergraduate students and the undergraduate experience.

Director of the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program Christopher Merrill was one of 168 winners of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation’s 2019 fellowships. The recipients, announced April 10, were chosen from a group of almost 3,000 applicants.

Dillon Constant is working with his hometown of Newton, Iowa, through a partnership between the community, the UI, and Grinnell College intended to develop community-based programs that support and promote health and obesity prevention.

Carole Kern, assistant to the executive associate dean for faculty in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, expanded her gardening skills and took the leap to growing food indoors. Find out how you can too!

School of Social Work professor Mercedes Bern-Klug discusses how meeting residents’ social and emotional needs in long term and post-acute care as being fundamental in culture change and person-centered care.