Jennifer Blackhurst, professor of business analytics in the Tippie College of Business, says COVID-19 may speed the tightening of supply chains out of China that American businesses were thinking of even before the pandemic.

University of Iowa Playwrights Workshop graduate David Adjmi's new memoir “Lot Six” traces the Syrian-Jewish enclave that spawned him, the instructor who unnerved him, and the biting comedy that made his name.

Patricia Winokur, executive dean of the Carver College of Medicine, says researchers have sequenced both the human genome and the COVID-19 genome, which will help scientists tell if the vaccines they develop to fight the virus are safe.

Jorge Salinas, hospital epidemiologist for University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics and an assistant professor off internal medicine at Carver College of Medicine, helps make sense of all the statistics that are used to explain the spread of COVID-19.

Dr. Michael Edmond, clinical professor of internal medicine-infectious diseases at the Carver College of Medicine, says that one advantage that face shields have over face masks in protecting against the spread of COVID-19 is that they aren’t as hot as a mask, and they don't cause eye glasses to fog up.

The University of Iowa is announcing additional budget cuts following a reduction in state support. The Iowa Legislature adjourned in June after approving cutting state funding for the public universities by $8 million. The Board of Regents, State of Iowa, will determine Iowa’s share of the cuts.

While work to remove spray-paint on campus from recent Black Lives Matter protests continues, the University of Iowa also is preserving the images in order that the messages not be forgotten and to help guide campus in its work to make meaningful changes.

Inspired by a colleague and LiveWELL, Marcus Powell invited others in his office to join the marathon challenge: Over the course of 20 days, participants worked to complete a half (13.1 miles), full (26.2 miles), or ultra (31 miles) marathon.

Stephanie Gilbertson-White, associate professor and director of the PhD program in the University of Iowa College of Nursing, has been named one of 11 nurse scientists accepted to the inaugural cohort of the Betty Irene Moore Fellowships for Nurse Leaders and Innovators.

The University of Iowa Libraries has awarded 12 grants for Open Educational Resource (OER) projects for the 2020-2021 academic year.

Briante Najev, a first-year graduate student in Department of Biology at the University of Iowa, has won an award to create outreach activities explaining climate issues. She will lead a climate-oriented activity, called EcoStax, for populations primarily in Muscatine and Davenport.

James Shepherd, assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry, has been selected to receive $750,000 in funding as part of the U.S. Department of Energy's Early Career Research Program. Shepherd will use the funding to advance the field of finite-temperature electronic structure theory.