On Feb. 25, 2017, 6-year-old Will Kohn, son of Meghan and Chris Kohn of Bettendorf, Iowa, was the first patient to be transported to the new UI Stead Family Children’s Hospital.

University of Iowa President Bruce Harreld has appointed Sue Curry interim executive vice president and provost beginning April 1, 2017. She replaces P. Barry Butler, who was recently named president of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida.

Professors and graduate students from the University of Iowa are working with students from the Iowa Braille and Sight Saving School to build a robot. The IESBVI team, the Dark Side, is competing in the First Robotics Competition in Cedar Falls, which will take place March 23 through 25.

UI President Bruce Harreld explains how the Strategic Plan 2016 to 2021 promotes student achievement and shares some examples of the outstanding Iowa programs and facilities that help Hawkeyes succeed.

University of Iowa alumnus David Colbert is known as a dermatologist to the stars, but he spends a lot of his time working to improve the lives of those far less fortunate.

Provost P. Barry Butler will leave the University of Iowa to become president of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University on March 13. Join “Iowa Now” as we take a look back at Butler’s 30+ years at the UI.

For 33 years, Dancers in Company has afforded University of Iowa dance students the opportunity to experience what it’s like to be part of a professional touring company. In the process, the student-performers get to share their art with audiences in towns across the state through performances, workshops, and demonstrations.

University of Iowa researchers have demonstrated how harmful health complications passed from mother rats to their offspring can be reversed. The tests may point the way toward preventing the transfer of certain health conditions from human mothers to their children.

Every year, UI faculty member Bob Walker takes a group of entrepreneurial students to consult with small-business owners in San Pedro Columbia, Belize. Last fall, UI student Mackenzie Phillips visited on her own as part of a research assignment and found that Walker’s efforts have made a big difference.

University of Iowa Health Care staff will begin moving pediatric patients into the new University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital on Saturday, Feb. 25.

The French government has named Raymond Mentzer, the Daniel J. Krumm Family Chair in Reformation Studies at the University of Iowa, a knight in the Order of Academic Palms for his service and contributions to French education and culture. Mentzer will be decorated on June 12 in Paris.

Noaquia Callahan, a Fulbright alumna at the UI, has founded a pilot program to help students from underrepresented groups learn about applying for the U.S. State Department’s Fulbright grants, among others. The Diversity International Scholarship Academy kicks off this spring.