The University of Iowa has released its Strategic Plan 2016–21, a streamlined road map with goals, strategies, tasks, and metrics to guide UI decision making over the next five years.

The UI College of Engineering's Automated Vehicle Systems Inc. class is run more like a startup company, and engages students in ways not usually found in typical class work.

On July 1, 2016, Diane Slusarski became departmental executive officer of the University of Iowa Department of Biology. Slusarski is the first woman to lead the department, and she aims to set a new course while being an example of female leadership in a STEM field.

IIHR researchers recently built a 1:16 scale model of part of a new sewer collection system to test and validate the design of various underground tunnels for the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District.

The University of Iowa Executive Master of Health Administration program is open to working health care professionals, whether clinicians or managers, who want to move into leadership positions. This fall, the EMHA program was expanded to The John and Mary Pappajohn Education Center in Des Moines.

Teresa Marshall and Cheryl Straub-Morarend, both of the UI College of Dentistry, were honored as evidence-based leaders by the American Dental Association and American Association for Dental Research.

Erica Kaldenberg, assistant director of UI REACH within the College of Education, and Meredith Saletta, an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, have been awarded an Obermann Center for Advanced Studies Interdisciplinary Research Grant.

DaVida Anderson, a graduate student in higher education and student affairs, and Dellyssa Edinboro, a graduate student in educational policy and leadership, have been named 2017 Obermann Graduate Fellows.

Crissa Stephens, a graduate student in the Department of Teaching and Learning, has been given a doctoral dissertation grant from the International Research Foundation (TIRF) for her research project called Language Policy and Multilingual Identity at Home and in School.

University of Iowa College of Education alumna Emily Wallace has been given the 2016 Teacher of Promise award by the Iowa World Language Association (IWLA).

UI College of Education alum Sara Johnston has earned the President’s Award for Interprofessional Teamwork from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, where she serves as an assistant professor.

Lori Ihrig, supervisor for curriculum and instruction at the Belin-Blank Center at the University of Iowa, has earned the Yager Educational Accomplishment Honor.