Rather than fostering “a very confusing and fearful situation,” the EPA should recommend that schools test classrooms for PCBs, then address specific sources if results are elevated, said Keri Hornbuckle, a University of Iowa civil and environmental engineering professor and one of the nation’s top researchers of PCBs in schools.

In this message to campus, President Harreld discusses the importance of undergraduate research as it applies to post-college outcomes, reminding students that as the semester’s workload picks up, it's important to understand why you’re doing what you’re doing—and to keep your eyes on the future.

Check out a gallery of corn monuments past, and learn how you can contribute to this year's monument.

Scott Beckner, director of the UI Department of Public Safety, shares important information about campus safety resources.

Today, Fran and Margaret McCaffery’s son Patrick is a healthy first-year Hawkeye, thanks to treatment and care he received at University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics. Now, his parents’ major fundraising efforts have helped create and sustain a unique program for young patients like him.

Bob McMurray, professor of psychological and brain sciences, was appointed to to the F. Wendell Miller Professorship.

Cesare Tinelli, professor of computer science, was appointed to the F. Wendell Miller Professorship.

Professor Kristy Nabhan-Warren was named the V.O. and Elizabeth Kahl Figge Chair in Catholic Studies on Sept. 23.

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

Kristen Radtke, a 2012 graduate of the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa, won the 2019 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant. Given annually by the Whiting Foundation, the grant awards $40,000 to a writer "in the process of completing a book of deeply researched and imaginatively composed nonfiction."

Ted Abel has been named chair and departmental executive officer of the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology.

Three University of Iowa scientists in the Iowa Neuroscience Institute (INI) have received NARSAD Young Investigator grants from the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation for projects focused on addiction, depression, and brain imaging. The two-year, $70,000 grants help promising young scientists launch careers in neuroscience and psychiatry.