The chair of the search committee for the next vice president for student life invites members of the UI community to nominate individuals they believe to be qualified to serve in the role.

As part of the Iowa City Area Transit Study, open houses will take place Nov. 12–14 for community members to learn more about the study and provide input about the transit system. Community members also can participate by completing a survey. Learn more and take the survey.

University of Iowa physicists reported that the spacecraft Voyager 2 has entered interstellar space. BBC spoke with Don Gurnett, professor emeritus in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, and carried his comments in a print story and in a broadcast on the BBC World Service radio.

John Culshaw, the Jack B. King University Librarian at the University of Iowa, has been elected to serve as incoming vice president/president-elect for the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). Culshaw will become ARL president on Oct. 7, 2020.

The University of Iowa search committee for the new associate provost and dean of International Programs has selected three final internal candidates.

Four teams of University of Iowa students were honored for their business startup ideas at the fall semester Iowa Startup Games competition, sponsored by the Iowa John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center.

A university search committee has announced the third finalist for the next dean of the College of Engineering.

University of Iowa researchers report the spacecraft Voyager 2 has reached interstellar space, following Voyager 1’s historic passage six years ago. In the study, the researchers note a jump in plasma density detected by an Iowa-led plasma wave instrument on the spacecraft as evidence.

The university is leaving the decision to cancel class on the night of the Iowa presidential caucuses to individual faculty members, who are in the best position to determine whether canceling class or excusing a student’s absence will have a negative impact on student learning.

The University of Iowa Threat Assessment Program is dedicated to early identification, assessment, and management of incidents and behaviors that threaten the safety and well-being of the university community.

A university search committee has announced the second finalist for the next dean of the College of Engineering.

Thanks to a nearly $1-million-dollar federal grant received by the University of Iowa College of Education, individuals who are deaf or with hearing loss will be able to receive services from vocational rehabilitation counselors who speak American Sign Language (ASL).