The University of Iowa is restructuring its Department of Public Safety to better coordinate a wider range of safety services.

The University of Iowa continues to make progress on campus safety and student well-being initiatives following recommendations from the Reimagining Campus Safety Action Committee in August 2021.

The 40th annual Presidential Lecture will highlight two University of Iowa faculty members whose research provides value within Iowa, across the country, and around the world in a lecture titled “Rivers of Discovery: UI Research, Iowa, and the World.”

The University of Iowa is not just the home of the Hawks. It is an economic powerhouse for the state of Iowa, supporting one out of every 19 jobs in the state and adding about $8 billion in additional annual value to the state’s coffers.

Four University of Iowa faculty members are recipients of the 2023 President and Provost Award for Teaching Excellence, recognizing their exceptional and ongoing contributions to student learning and success.

In a recent PBS installment of Amanpour and Company, Tara Bynum, professor of English and African American Studies at Iowa, talks about her new book, Reading Pleasures: Everyday Black Living in Early America, which explores the ways that four early Black writers named and expressed happiness and joy despite being enslaved.

In this interview with NPR, Derek (DK) Nnuro talks about his debut novel, What Napoleon Could Not Do, a book that depicts how America is seen through the eyes of three characters with African ties. Nnuro is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, teaches writing at Iowa, and is curator of special projects at the Stanley Museum of Art.

For 50 years, the Iowa Cancer Registry, at the University of Iowa, has served the state of Iowa as the trusted source for high-quality cancer data. The registry’s efforts inform research and prompt prevention, screening, and treatment.

With demand for mental health services surging in Iowa and across the nation, especially among young adults, the University of Iowa is working to create a culture of well-being.

Driven by research and feedback from its students, the University of Iowa is poised to make significant upgrades to its housing system in the next five years that will, in turn, improve student success and retention.

University of Iowa biologists have definitively linked the brain's immune system to epilepsy, through a series of experiments with fruit flies, which share with humans an ancestral gene that, when mutated, leads to seizures. The findings could lead to more effective drugs to treat epilepsy.

The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs has again named the University of Iowa a Fulbright Top Producing Institution for U.S. Students.