The University of Iowa’s Strategic Plan 2016–2021 Progress Report for fall 2018 outlines campus efforts toward achieving goals set forth in the plan. Highlights include an increase in federal funding for research and the UI’s inaugural First-Generation Summit.

UI researchers are looking into the ways that the neighborhood you live in contributes to your health. Qian Xiao, assistant professor of health and human physiology, and postdoctoral researcher Dong Zhang worked with Iowa collaborators and others further afield to track cancer rates and mortality in various communities.

Tianlu Zhang, a PhD student in second-language acquisition, was named the winner of the 2018 3MT contest.

Bernadine Franks graduates from the University of Iowa in December 2018.

Two scientists from the University of Iowa have been named 2018 American Association for the Advancement of Science fellows. Ann Budd, in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, and Madeline Shea, in the Department of Biochemistry, will be honored at the February 2019 AAAS meeting in Washington, D.C.

UI senior Austin Hughes was recently named one of 32 American Rhodes scholars. UI senior Melissa Lauer was also a finalist for the prestigious scholarship.

If classes are canceled, the university will issue a Hawk Alert and post to the UI homepage, the UI Emergency Information website, and its Twitter account.

University of Iowa music therapist PhD student Alaine E. Reschke-Hernández planned and facilitated a study in four Iowa nursing homes to examine the effectiveness of music therapy intervention for people with Alzheimer’s or related dementias.

When researchers from the University of Iowa and Princeton University looked more closely at precipitation and flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey in Houston last year, they found that the city’s urban density directly contributed to the storm’s devastating and deadly impact.

The UI College of Public Health works with rural school districts across Iowa to encourage more students to eat lunch and make healthier food choices.

A first-year seminar brings together students and faculty from multiple disciplines to create works of art using scientific computer code and artistic techniques.

The University of Iowa Thesis Rental Gallery, which provides a unique glimpse of academic American art over much of the last century, moves back to the main campus and gains an online component.