Death notices for current and retired UI employees. Links to online obituaries provided when available.

A new study from the University of Iowa suggests that people who have higher levels of a chemical in their body that indicates exposure to commonly used insecticides die of cardiovascular disease at a significantly higher rate.

Thousands of students officially became University of Iowa alums this weekend, as commencement ceremonies took place across campus. Check out a photo gallery of the events!

Elsie Barugahare, from the district of Kabale in Uganda and the mother of UI graduate student Dan Ngabirano, and Manju Verma, from Muzaffarpur, Bihar, an eastern state in India and the mother of UI graduate student Pranav Prakash, a PhD candidate in religious studies. were named International Parents of the Year for 2019.

President Harreld shares a message to fall 2019 graduates about the values they bring with them into the wider world.

An international research team co-led by the University of Iowa has dated the last known appearance of Homo erectus, one of modern humans’ direct ancestors. Researchers examined animal fragments from a fossil bed where homo erectus remains had been found and dated the surrounding landscape to determine homo erectus last appeared at a site called Ngandong, on the Indonesian island of Java, between...

An international team of researchers has determined the age of the last known settlement of the species Homo erectus, one of modern humans’ direct ancestors. The site is called Ngandong, on the Indonesian island Java.

University of Iowa researchers have identified a host of bacteria and fungi that potentially could be used to get rid of pollutants that gather on buildings and other surfaces. The findings are reported in American Chemical Society journal Earth and Space Chemistry.

Hayden Fry, who inherited a struggling University of Iowa football program and returned it to national prominence during his 20 seasons as head coach, died Tuesday at 90 years of age.

Harriet B. Nembhard, the Eric R. Smith Professor of Engineering and head of the School of Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon, has been named dean of the University of Iowa College of Engineering. She will begin June 29.

Death notices for current and retired UI employees. Links to online obituaries provided when available.

University of Iowa MFA student Donté K. Hayes was named the 2019 winner of the 1858 Prize for Contemporary Southern Art by the Gibbes Museum of Art.