Jan Warren, the Assistant Director for Student Services at the Belin-Blank Center, has been selected Arts Network Chair-Elect by members of the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC).

The University of Iowa dedicated the new UI Stead Family Children’s Hospital on Nov. 11, 2016. The 14-story, 507,000-square-foot facility will offer private rooms for all patients, eight pediatric operating rooms, a pediatric pharmacy, a playground, gardens, a library, and an interactive theater.

The National Advanced Driving Simulator at the University of Iowa has been testing automation since 1994. The program’s director, Dan McGehee, describes the future of semi-automated vehicles and driving safety as the country looks toward self-driving trucks.

A research paper by University of Iowa graduate student Jacob E. Simmering has been published in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases: Journal of the COPD Foundation (JCOPDF).

Beginning Nov. 16, fencing and temporary UI Power Plant equipment will be installed at the northeast end of Parking Lot 11 and remain in operation through the 2016–17 winter heating season. Some parking permit holders will be affected.

The University of Iowa Veterans Association and Iowa Reserve Officers’ Training Corps honored Iowa’s veterans during the week of Nov. 6–12 with a reveille ceremony and the fourth annual Veterans Day flag display on the west lawn of the Pentacrest.

The University of Iowa has announced that Jim Leach, former Iowa congressman and chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), will serve as the interim director of the University of Iowa Museum of Art (UIMA). Leach will take on the role Jan. 1, 2017.

A new nonprofit regional job consortium will help the University of Iowa and area employers build a diverse employee base and recruit dual-career couples.

After 30 years, University of Iowa theatre arts professor and directing program head Eric Forsythe plans to retire at the end of the spring semester. Forsythe sat down with “Iowa Now” to talk about his time at Iowa and his final UI play, “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.”

Iowa has long been a trailblazer in working to become a more inclusive and welcoming institution for LGBTQ+ individuals. Read about these significant milestones in the university’s journey.

The University of Iowa’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Resource Center recently marked a decade of serving the community.

In a new University of Iowa project, The Songs of the Holocaust, School of Music professor and soprano Rachel Joselson revives music composed by inmates of Theresienstadt, a Nazi concentration camp that held a particularly high number of artists and musicians.