University of Iowa Vice President for Research and Economic Development Daniel A. Reed is playing a key role in shaping the United States government’s plans for developing and deploying exascale technology by 2023.

Engineering alumnus Sajan Goud Lingala (Ph.D. 2013, biomedical engineering) has received the 2015 Rex Montgomery Dissertation Award for his thesis “Novel Adaptive Reconstruction Schemes for Accelerated Myocardial Perfusion MRI."

First-year students at the University of Iowa will move into the residence halls Tuesday-Thursday, Aug 18-20. Clinton Street will be rerouted and there's a new plan for students moving into west side halls.

China has about 100 million children learning English and a pair of the University of Iowa students have started a new business to help them.

Since February, I’ve chaired the committee charged with identifying candidates for the next University of Iowa president. This week, we will conduct first-round interviews with a group of accomplished leaders, each of them a promising potential president. It’s an extremely talented pool of candidates with diverse backgrounds and ideas.

The University of Iowa Presidential Search and Screen Committee will hold “airport interviews” for nine candidates on Tuesday, Aug. 11, and Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2015.

By providing workers with a portable pedaling device, Lucas Carr, an assistant professor in the Department of Health and Human Physiology and member of the Obesity Research and Education Initiative at the UI, discovered people who were once sitting all day were now moving at work without even getting up.

As the UI moves forward with the Iowa Board of Regents’ TIER project, campus leaders are committed to keeping colleagues informed. Here's one example of how TIER is already at work on campus.

The University of Iowa’s Tippie College of Business has endorsed a White House initiative designed to encourage more women college students to consider majoring in business.

The Board of Regents made no objections to a proposed 3 percent increase in undergraduate resident tuition for the Spring 2016 semester. A vote on the proposed increase is expected at the September board meeting. The board also gives first-round approval to Kinnick renovation.

Researchers in the UI Department of Pharmacology have received a pair of research grants from the NIH totaling $3.4 million to study new ways to treat obesity, diabetes, and high blood pressure.

The University of Iowa Presidential Search and Screen Committee has narrowed a field of 46 candidates to a pool of nine who will be invited to participate next week in “airport interviews” at an unnamed location.