The University of Iowa Theatre Building’s Theatre B has been renamed the Alan MacVey Theatre. MacVey, who has chaired the UI Department of Theatre Arts since 1991, will step down as chair this year, but will remain on the faculty and as director of the Division of Performing Arts.

The acclaimed national Colored Conventions Project has named two members of the UI campus community co-directors of its first pilot satellite partner, and a new course gives students an opportunity to rediscover this little-known part of Iowa history.

Recognizing the desire for family and friends of international students to share in the joy of commencement, the University of Iowa recruits volunteers to interpret the ceremonies in different languages.

Bill Barnhart, seismologist and assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, talked about the first-ever detection of tremors on Mars.

Graduate students at the University of Iowa visited with children in Muscatine, Iowa, to introduce them to science concepts, as part of a collaboration between the UI and the Musser Public Library in Muscatine.

Bill Barnhart, a seismologist and assistant professor in earth and environmental sciences, appeared on Iowa Public Radio's "River to River" program to talk about the first-ever detection of a quake on Mars.

The University of Iowa Council on Teaching has named 29 teaching assistants recipients of the 2019 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.

The University of Iowa’s Office of Sustainability and the Environment enters a new era of academics, research, and involvement on campus and in the community under the leadership of Stratis Giannakouros.

Anna Ward, a fourth-year graduate student in the Department of Biology, has won research funding from the American Genetic Association to reconstruct the evolutionary history wasps that cause a type of tumor on oak trees in North America.

Arturs Kalnins, assistant professor of management and entrepreneurship in the Tippie College of Business, looks at the challenges faced by two churches with distinctly different cultures when they decided to merge.

University of Iowa physicists use a special furnace to produce a key piece of equipment whose manufacturing process was once lost to history. The UI is one of a handful of academic institutions worldwide with a furnace capable of reproducing the magnetic instrument, called a ring core.

The University of Iowa will host a ceremonial groundbreaking for a new UI Stanley Museum of Art on June 7, 2019.