The University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has named Claire Sponsler as the M. F. Carpenter Professor in English.

The University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) has named Jodie Plumert, professor and chair of the Department of Psychology, a Starch Faculty Fellow.

The UI Department of Theatre Arts will close out its UI Theatre Mainstage season with The Liar, a comedy by David Ives. The Liar will be on stage at 8 p.m. April 16-18 and 22-25 and at 2 p.m. April 19 and 26 in the Mabie Theatre, UI Theatre Building.

The University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) has named Jodie Plumert, professor and chair of the Department of Psychology, a Starch Faculty Fellow.

Leaders of the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Organ Transplant Center announced Monday, April 13, that the program has performed its 5,000th solid organ transplant.

Individuals who have received organ transplants at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics will perform a transplant of a different kind on Earth Day, April 22.

Dawn Bowlus, director of the Jacobsen Institute for Entrepreneurial Education in the UI John Pappajohn Entreprenurial Center, contributed to the educational materials promoted with this year's American Girl doll.

University of Iowa researchers who recreate deep sea sponge molecules for anti-cancer drugs and reprogram human tissue to fight disease are among the recipients of $750,000 in funding from the university to turn their discoveries into businesses.

Andrea Gutman, a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Iowa, has been selected as one of 10 fellows in the 2015 Society for Neuroscience’s (SfN) Early Career Policy Fellows, a program for early career neuroscientists to learn how to become effective advocates for science.

William S. Kurth, a research scientist in the University of Iowa Department of Physics and Astronomy, was elected as an American Geophysical Union Fellow.

The UI once again achieved Tree Campus USA status for 2014.

Why are modern humans the only species with chins? UI researchers say it's not due to mechanical forces, such as chewing, but may lie in our evolution: As our faces became smaller, it exposed the bony prominence at the lowest part of our heads. Results in the Journal of Anatomy.