Ana M. Rodríguez-Rodríguez is playing a prominent role in bringing to light the work and legacy of women writers during Spain's "Golden Age," a period of flourishing in arts and literature in Spain in the 16th and 17th centuries. The associate professor of Spanish literature in the University of Iowa Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and interim chair of the Department of French and Italian...

Assistant Professor Christopher-Rasheem McMillan of the Departments of Dance and Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies, has been appointed a Fellow of the Institute of Sacred Music at Yale University. McMillan's Yale project will take two interdependent approaches: completion of a book titled Performance Criticism: Scripture, Sex, and the Sacred, and an evening-length performance called Sacred/...

The National Science Foundation announced that University of Iowa Computer Science researcher Zubair Shafiq is part of a team receiving a $10 million grant. The grant is part of NSF's Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program, which supports cybersecurity research. Shafiq's team's project is titled "ProperData: Protecting Personal Data Flow on the Internet."

A researcher from the University of Iowa College of Dentistry was part of a research team that found vaping significantly increases the likelihood of cavities and other oral health problems caused by excess bacteria in the smoker's mouth.

Three Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty members received a National Science Foundation (NSF) RAPID grant titled "RAPID: High-Throughput and Low-Cost Testing of COVID-19 Viruses and Antibodies through Compressed Sensing and Group Testing," to develop a novel high-throughput and low-cost testing technology that has great potential of breaking the testing bottleneck of the COVID-19 pandemic...

UI Stead Family Children’s Hospital is listed among the nation’s best in five specialties in the new 2020–21 Best Children’s Hospitals rankings published online today by U.S. News & World Report, the global authority in hospital rankings and consumer advice.

Christopher Harris has been named a 2020–2021 fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, joining an impressive class whose work will span the sciences, social sciences, humanities, and arts. Harris is head of Film and Video Production in the Department of Cinematic Arts. For his Radcliffe project, Harris will continue researching, writing, and re-photographing...

Mark Vander Weg has been named the head of the University of Iowa Department of Community and Behavioral Health, effective July 1, 2020. Vander Weg is currently an associate professor of internal medicine at the UI Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine and holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He...

More than 8,500 undergraduate students at the University of Iowa were named to the dean’s list for the 2020 spring semester.

Two University of Iowa physicists are helping chart the future for fusion energy and plasma science in the United States. Scott Baalrud, associate professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, and Fred Skiff, chair and professor, are outlining a 10-year vision for fusion energy.

More than 800 undergraduate students at the University of Iowa were named to the president’s list for the 2020 spring semester.

Starting last week, University of Iowa students, faculty, and staff have used their voices to highlight the lack of racial equity and justice in our community.