There will be a lot more black and gold around Iowa City next week as the University of Iowa welcomes first-year students moving into residence halls. Student move-in likely will increase traffic and cause delays each day.

While hundreds of University of Iowa students spent their summer completing internships in their chosen fields of interest, a group of about 60 students took their experiences to the next level by completing internships abroad—allowing them to gain global experience while strengthening their intercultural communication skills and building confidence.

In just a few years, the University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art’s world-class collections will be brought home to support the education of UI students and enrich the lives Iowans. The bid for the new building was awarded to Russell Construction Co., Inc., of Davenport, Iowa.

Three Iowa faculty members have been awarded Fulbright grants to conduct research, study, or teach abroad in 2019–20.

A new collaborative project between the University of Iowa and Des Moines Area Community College aims to increase the number of secondary school mathematics teachers from underrepresented communities in Iowa teaching in high-need school districts.

Mary Cohen, associate professor of music education at the University of Iowa, discusses how songwriting can be especially powerful for people behind bars.

A research team at the University of Iowa has been awarded $750,000 from the U.S. National Science Foundation to develop a natural growth additive in fertilizer that aims to improve crop yields. The researchers, led by Ned Bowden in the Department of Chemistry, will test the growth additive on corn and soybean crops and on a biomass source called Miscanthus grass.

Fred Skiff, professor and chair in Department of Physics and Astronomy, has been appointed to the Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee in the U.S Department of Energy's Office of Science. Skiff will advise the DOE in laser and optical plasma diagnostics, and nonlinear dynamics of plasmas.

The University of Iowa has extended its contract with Fredrikson & Byron, P.A. to begin the next stage of the employment practices review. The Des Moines law firm will complete a modified review of the university’s academic and operational units as well as UI Health Care.

University of Iowa biologists have traced the evolutionary origin of genes associated with a key enzyme involved in regulating metabolism in eukaryotes, which include all living organisms other than bacteria. The findings were published earlier this month in the journal PLOS One.

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

The University of Iowa School of Social Work has added a master class as a follow-up to the popular Creative Writing Seminar for Social Workers, which has provided writing courses for 29 years.