Researchers at the University of Iowa have been awarded funding to design and use smart technology to maximize crop yields and use water more efficiently in rural agriculture. he four-year, $1.6 million grant is from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

University of Iowa researchers are partnering with school districts in Cedar Rapids and Iowa City to enroll elementary-age children in novel research to better understand how they identify, and recognize, words. The project, led by Bob McMurray, professor in the UI’s Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, begins this spring.

The University of Iowa has 60 programs ranked in this year’s “U.S. News & World Report” graduate and professional school rankings, 11 with top 10 rankings in their categories.

Kenneth Brown, assoc. dean of undergraduate programs in the Tippie College of Business, is not only accomplished in his academic work but also in his health and fitness. He recently climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro along with Endure to Cure, a pediatric cancer foundation founded by Tippie alum Jason Sissel.

With the demand for more Master of Social Work programs growing but resources for in-person programs around the state unavailable, the University of Iowa School of Social Work stepped in and created an online MSW program.

A university search committee has announced the first candidate for the new associate vice president of diversity, equity, and inclusion at the University of Iowa.

University of Iowa Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Casey Harwood is studying an amphibious vehicle, a Gibbs Quadski, to better understand how the machine will perform in coastal waves—a notoriously difficult zone of operation.

Montserrat (Montse) Fuentes, dean and professor in the College of Humanities & Sciences at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, has been named the University of Iowa’s new executive vice president and provost. She will begin on June 28.

While the overall number of new cases for most types of cancer in Iowa remains mostly unchanged, the number of cancers related to the human papillomavirus (HPV) is on the rise, according to the 2019 Cancer in Iowa report issued today by the State Health Registry of Iowa.

Linda Snetselaar, professor of epidemiology and endowed chair of preventive nutrition in the College of Public Health, is one of 20 nationally recognized scientists selected to serve on the federal government's 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee.

Researchers in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Iowa co-authored a research study that investigated vulnerabilities in 4G and 5G cellular phone networks. The researchers presented the findings at the Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium in San Diego.

UI Political Science Professor Caroline Tolbert was recognized as one of the 400 most-cited political science faculty members in the country in the PS: Political Science article, "The Political Science 400: With Citation Counts by Cohort, Gender, and Subfield."