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."

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has named six recipients of the Collegiate Teaching Award for 2018-2019.

Tianbao Yang, assistant professor in the UI Department of Computer Science, won an NSF CAREER award. The five-year, $529,000 award will fund research to advance machine learning with complex objectives and constraints by designing and analyzing efficient and effective optimization algorithms for addressing computational challenges in new machine learning paradigms.

Katrina Sanders, University of Iowa College of Education associate professor, has been awarded a 2019 Sabbatical Research Grant, funded by the Lily Endowment through the Louisville Institute, to complete a book titled, "The Rise and Fall of Black Catholic Education in a Changing South, 1886-1976."

Jane Nachtman, physics and astronomy professor at the University of Iowa, is profiled for her achievements in particle physics and for her leadership and mentorship to women seeking careers in science.

Brady Krien, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English at the University of Iowa, has been recognized for making exceptional contributions in the classroom and beyond with the 2019 Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools (MAGS) Excellence in Teaching Award. Krien is the UI’s first recipient of this award.

Ronald McMullen, the university's Ambassador in Residence and lecturer in the Department of Political Science, has been awarded the 2018-19 International Engagement Teaching Award by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and International Programs. The award recognizes faculty members who excel at integrating internationalism into their teaching.