Ed Stone, professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences at the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine and director of the Institute for Vision Research at the UI, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine.

Christopher Merrill, longtime director of the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program (IWP), is marking 25 years as director and has announced he will step down at the end of the year. Since 2000, Merrill has been the architect of IWP’s modern era—expanding its global reach, stewarding the program through transformational partnerships, and championing literary exchange in Iowa City and around the world.

As the University of Iowa welcomed its second-largest first-year class this fall, faculty across campus are utilizing resources and new teaching approaches that work for large enrollment courses.

The University of Iowa has been designated as an Innovation and Economic Prosperity University by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities.

Check out the photo gallery created by UI staff photographers to relive the excitement of Homecoming 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.

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.

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.

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.

Out of hundreds of submissions, Jungin Angie Lee and Ajay Patri were among the 12 awardees of Patterson’s “Go Finish Your Book!” grants.

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.