UI President J. Bruce Harreld has named Liz Tovar, associate athletics director for Student-Athlete Academic Services, and Claire F. Fox, professor and chair in the Department of English, to co-chair the search committee tasked with selecting the next chief diversity officer.

UI faculty and students have designed a web-based game that can be played by anyone with a smartphone and a Fitbit.

After back-to-back state budget cuts by the Iowa Legislature, the University of Iowa will close several centers and eliminate more than 30 positions not directly tied to student instruction.

UI College of Pharmacy researchers have created a virtual, web-based pharmacy service that offers Iowa primary-care providers in small towns and rural areas additional help in managing chronic health conditions such as hypertension and diabetes. The team is looking to expand the service in Iowa and beyond.

As a third class of Mandela Fellows attends the Young African Leaders Initiative held at the University of Iowa, 2017 YALI attendee Isaac Quaidoo is building on his experience in Iowa, taking a new, more ambitious view of his honey and bee product business in Ghana.

The University of Iowa will refocus the scope of the Office of the Vice President for Research (VPR) when it hires a new vice president, shifting the role of economic development elsewhere within the university.

This summer, Chris Stewart hopes to finish building the software for his company, Suredbits, which will provide affordable, real-time Bitcoin data to small businesses.

The University of Iowa’s State Fair Working Group seeks volunteers for the UI booth at the Iowa State Fair Aug. 9–19 in Des Moines.

Jennifer Croft, who earned an MFA from Iowa in 2003, has been awarded the Man Booker International Prize along with Polish author Olga Tokarczuk, whose novel “Flights” Croft translated into English.

An exhibition tour across Iowa celebrates the 25th anniversary of the beginning of Iowa Women’s Archive and end of 6-on-6 basketball in the state.

UI student Ishaya David is pursuing a doctorate in pharmacy and a master’s degree in public health as part of a long-term goal to provide sex education and substance use disorder services to youth in his native Nigeria.

The search for a new associate vice president and dean of students at the University of Iowa has been extended. A search committee made up of UI faculty, staff, and students will now work with the Isaacson, Miller, Inc. search firm to find a replacement for Lyn Redington.