Faculty
UI honors recipients of 103rd Hancher-Finkbine Medallions and Distinguished Student Leader Certificates
Wednesday, April 22, 2020
The University of Iowa’s most prestigious awards for faculty, staff, and students were announced April 21 on the Hancher-Finkbine website.
Snapshots of academia during a pandemic: Obermann Center discusses COVID-19 with UI scholars
Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Many scholars at the University of Iowa are grappling with the impact of the pandemic on their profession and personal life. The Obermann Center for Advanced Studies is holding a regular web series, called "Pandemic Insights," preserving stories of the impact of a pandemic on educators and scholars in eastern Iowa.
Brian Ekdale mines lessons from Kenya's scrappy gig economy
Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Brian Ekdale, a filmmaker and media scholar, is pondering what Kenya’s robust gig economy has to teach us at this moment of global crisis.
Leading the charge toward sustainability
Monday, April 20, 2020
A resolution Manders co-wrote with student government leaders has inspired action not only from UI Student Government, but university faculty and administration—and now other higher education institutions across Iowa.
Hawkeyes give back
Thursday, April 16, 2020
We Stand Together—it’s a mantra we’ve heard time and again this past month as our world deals with the impact of COVID-19.
Tippie College of Business dean search finalists to visit campus virtually for open forums
Thursday, April 16, 2020
The University of Iowa search committee for the new dean of the Tippie College of Business has selected four final candidates. The candidates will visit campus virtually over the next three weeks to participate in online public forums and meet with faculty, staff, and college leadership.
UI strategic planning process timeline extended to consider impacts of COVID-19
Thursday, April 16, 2020
The University of Iowa is extending the timeline for each phase of refreshing its strategic plan by six months.
Oaknoll residents answer call for face masks
Thursday, April 16, 2020
Retirement community making face masks for UI Laundry Service
DeGowin Blood Center holding weekly blood drives at Carver-Hawkeye Arena
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
Patients need blood even during a pandemic, so the University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics’ DeGowin Blood Center is still actively taking donations for its patients and those in UI Stead Family Children’s Hospital.
UI faculty members use Guggenheim fellowships to advance research
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
UI faculty members David Gompper and H. Glenn Penny will use their $50,000 Guggenheim fellowship grants to take a year off from teaching to focus solely on their research.
$2 million gift to support UI Health Care employees with emergency costs and PPE, and fund COVID-19 research
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
In recognition of the work addressing COVID-19, the Richard O. Jacobson Foundation has given University of Iowa Health Care a $2 million gift to help overcome the pandemic. The gift will be used for current and future expenses associated with the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of the COVID-19 virus; to aid front-line health care workers with emergency childcare, housing, and food costs; and...
Iowa Superfund Research Program receives $11.4M from NIH to continue study of airborne PCBs
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
The Iowa Superfund Research Program (ISRP), a University of Iowa research group started in 2006 that is a leader in the study of human exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), has received a highly competitive five-year, $11.4 million grant renewal from the National Institutes of Health.
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