Leaders, faculty, and staff with UI Health Care continually strive for innovation and growth in all of the missions on which the organization is built. Ensuring that the facilities and the infrastructure that support those missions continue to reflect that same commitment to growth and innovation is key to providing the best in education, research, and health care.

The conduct of research, scholarship, and creative activities is at the core of the University of Iowa's multiple missions of education, research, service, and outreach to the state, region, nation, and beyond. Here is a sampling of the advances made in research at the UI over the past year.

Sara Mitchell receives the 2012 Graduate College Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award in social sciences. She is professor of political science in the University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

K.K. Choi, professor of mechanical engineering, and WItold Krajewski, professor of civil and environmental engineering, are co-winners of the 2012 Graduate College Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award in mathematical, physical sciences, and engineering.

University of Iowa President Sally Mason introduces the 2012 annual report, which shares the scope and depth of the changing face of campus. Mason discusses the ways the UI continues to renew its campus in ways that allow students, faculty, and staff to lead and innovate in teaching and learning, research, creative endeavor, and service to our state and society.

Construction cranes dot the skyline. Miles of cable and pipe snake underground. Shipments of wood chips replace loads of coal. The signs of changing University of Iowa campus infrastructure are everywhere. Expect to see many more in the years ahead.

A glance at the university community and its achievements

A by-the-numbers view of the University of Iowa during the 2011-12 academic/fiscal year.

Links to additional University of Iowa information and resources.

Information for contacting the Office of the President and University Communication and Marketing about this report, and information for contacting the UI Foundation or the UI Alumni Association.

Let’s just mitigate climate change, conserve precious water, preserve species, and reduce our collective footprints without global treaties or comprehensive national legislation.

The University of Iowa Healthier Workforce Center for Excellence (HWCE) in the College of Public Health will host its “Total Worker Health Symposium: Safe, Healthy and Cost-Effective Solutions” on November 29-30 at the Marriott Hotel in Coralville, Iowa.