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Highlights from Homecoming 2025

Monday, September 29, 2025
Check out the photo gallery created by UI staff photographers to relive the excitement of Homecoming 2025.
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'US News' recognizes UI as top public writing school

Tuesday, September 23, 2025
The University of Iowa continues to be recognized as the best public university for writing and communication in the latest U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings. Iowa is tied for No. 10 in writing in the disciplines.
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4 Iowa alums longlisted for National Book Award

Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Four University of Iowa graduates — Angela Flournoy, Kevin Moffett, Joy Williams, and Yiyun Li — are listed among the authors being considered for the prestigious National Book Award. Finalists are announced in October and the winners in November.
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University of Iowa physician–scientist receives prestigious Lasker Award

Michael J. Welsh, MD, University of Iowa professor of internal medicine, has won the 2025 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award for his fundamental research on cystic fibrosis (CF), which paved the way to new therapies that have transformed the health and life expectancy of people with CF.
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Campus can submit proposals for P3 funding

Thursday, September 11, 2025
Proposals are now being accepted for fiscal year 2027 P3 projects that support the University of Iowa’s 2022-27 Strategic Plan. Preliminary proposals must be submitted by Nov. 13.
Jungin Angie Lee and Ajay Patri

Iowa Writers’ Workshop student, alumna receive grants from James Patterson to finish books

Thursday, September 11, 2025
Out of hundreds of submissions, Jungin Angie Lee and Ajay Patri were among the 12 awardees of Patterson’s “Go Finish Your Book!” grants.
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Campbell earns Horwitz Prize for muscular dystrophy discoveries

Kevin Campbell, professor and chair of molecular physiology and biophysics at the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, will receive the 2025 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University. Campbell will share the prize, which is awarded annually for groundbreaking work in medical science, with fellow researchers Louis Kunkel and Eric Olson for discoveries that revealed the biological causes of Duchenne muscular dystrophy and provide the foundation for breakthrough treatments for this and related muscular diseases.
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Take in the excitement from start of fall 2025 semester

Tuesday, September 2, 2025
Welcome to the fall 2025 semester, Hawkeyes!
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Longevity Awards: June 2025

Thursday, August 28, 2025
University of Iowa Staff Council’s service-recognition program acknowledges all professional and scientific and merit staff who have reached 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, or 50 years of continuous service. Awardees receive a certificate and a letter of appreciation from the Office of the Provost.
Drawing of Old Capitol Building

Longevity Awards: May 2025

Thursday, August 28, 2025
University of Iowa Staff Council’s service-recognition program acknowledges all professional and scientific and merit staff who have reached 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, or 50 years of continuous service. Awardees receive a certificate and a letter of appreciation from the Office of the Provost.
Drawing of Old Capitol Building

Longevity Awards: April 2025

Thursday, August 28, 2025
University of Iowa Staff Council’s service-recognition program acknowledges all professional and scientific and merit staff who have reached 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, or 50 years of continuous service. Awardees receive a certificate and a letter of appreciation from the Office of the Provost.
Drawing of Old Capitol Building

Longevity Awards: March 2025

Thursday, August 28, 2025
University of Iowa Staff Council’s service-recognition program acknowledges all professional and scientific and merit staff who have reached 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, or 50 years of continuous service. Awardees receive a certificate and a letter of appreciation from the Office of the Provost.