Lynne Nugent has been named editor of The Iowa Review. She is the seventh editor in the half-century history of The Iowa Review and the first nonwhite person (she is Asian American) to serve in that role.

For the 32nd year in a row, the U.S. News & World Report “Best Hospitals” rankings has listed UI Hospitals & Clinics as the No. 1 hospital in Iowa, as well as the only one in Iowa to have specialties ranked in the top 50 nationally.

For the 17th straight year, the University of Iowa has been designated a “Best Buy” in the Fiske Guide to Colleges.

Kevin Kregel, executive vice president and provost at the University of Iowa, has been named president-elect of the Federation of American Society for Experimental Biology (FASEB) for a term that began July 1.

The University of Iowa has named Britt Marcussen its new campus health officer.

Andrew Hosmanek, associate professor of instruction in the Tippie College of Business, has been appointed to the Iowa Supreme Court’s Grievance Commission by Chief Justice Susan Christensen.

A University of Iowa physicist has won an award from NASA to improve the readiness of a particular technology for future space-based missions. Casey DeRoo will focus on building and measuring the performance of an optical element known as diffraction grating.

A team of physicists led by the University of Iowa have described in fuller detail the sun’s electric field. The researchers measured the flow of electrons streaming from the sun as the Parker Solar Probe spacecraft made its closest approach to date to our home star.

University of Iowa physicists have won NASA funding to fabricate and test gratings for use in the ultraviolet range in space-based astronomy. Keri Hoadley and Casey DeRoo will use the $900,000 to create reflection gratings superior to those typically used for large, astronomical space telescopes.

Caroline Stefanie Clay will be joining the faculty of the UI's Department of Theatre Arts in fall 2021 as lead acting professor of the MFA acting program. Clay has performed on Broadway in Little Foxes, Doubt, and other shows, with film and television credits including the role of Cece Colvin, The Matchmaker on Grey's Anatomy, as well as roles on Shameless, The Knick, Law & Order: SVU, House of...

Alfred L. Martin Jr., assistant professor of media studies, authored this essay about the history of Black gayness in television and how representation can signal acceptance and normalcy that can be important for Black queer boys and men.

Corinne Peek-Asa, a professor in the University of Iowa’s Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, discusses how as COVID-19 spread more readily through communities of color, an increase in traffic deaths was probably a result of the compounding of existing inequities.