UI State Hygienic Laboratory Director Michael Pentella and Director Emeritus Christopher Atchison have received Lifetime Achievement Awards at the annual meeting of the Association of Public Health Laboratories.

So many serious writers are now fixing their sights on television that the University of Iowa, home of the venerable Iowa Writers’ Workshop, has launched a postgraduate TV-writing fellowship and will begin a workshop focused on the specialization this fall.

After back-to-back state budget cuts by the Iowa Legislature, the University of Iowa will close several centers and eliminate more than 30 positions not directly tied to student instruction.

Peggy Nopoulos has been named chair and departmental executive officer (DEO) of the Department of Psychiatry in the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, following a national search in which she was recommended as the top finalist for the position.

UI faculty have won grants through the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development program.

UI College of Pharmacy researchers have created a virtual, web-based pharmacy service that offers Iowa primary-care providers in small towns and rural areas additional help in managing chronic health conditions such as hypertension and diabetes. The team is looking to expand the service in Iowa and beyond.

As a third class of Mandela Fellows attends the Young African Leaders Initiative held at the University of Iowa, 2017 YALI attendee Isaac Quaidoo is building on his experience in Iowa, taking a new, more ambitious view of his honey and bee product business in Ghana.

The University of Iowa will refocus the scope of the Office of the Vice President for Research (VPR) when it hires a new vice president, shifting the role of economic development elsewhere within the university.

UI alumni and Bettendorf, Iowa, natives Scott Beck and Bryan Woods are finalizing a deal with Twentieth Century Fox to adapt Stephen King’s “The Boogeyman” for a new horror film. Beck and Woods’s script for this year’s A Quiet Place, co-written by director and co-star John Krasinski, made $328 million.

IIHR Hydroscience and Engineering professor honored for flood outreach

“U.S. News & World Report” has ranked University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital in four specialties in the new 2018–19 Best Children’s Hospitals rankings published online June 26.

University of Iowa alumnus and Cedar Rapids native Jeff Tomsic's feature film directing debut, Tag, opened third at the box office, raking in $14.6 million—more than half of its $28 million price tag—in its first weekend.