The University of Iowa has released its Strategic Plan 2016–21, a streamlined road map with goals, strategies, tasks, and metrics to guide UI decision making over the next five years.

On July 1, 2016, Diane Slusarski became departmental executive officer of the University of Iowa Department of Biology. Slusarski is the first woman to lead the department, and she aims to set a new course while being an example of female leadership in a STEM field.

IIHR researchers recently built a 1:16 scale model of part of a new sewer collection system to test and validate the design of various underground tunnels for the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District.

Chuck Fluharty, president of the UI’s Rural Policy Research Institute, says that farmers aren’t a big part of small-town rural economies anymore, but farmers still need the small towns.

Tom Brokaw, a noted journalist whose career has spanned over five decades, announced that his personal papers will be preserved at the University of Iowa Libraries. The collection, including Brokaw’s brushes with some of history’s most fascinating and frustrating events, will become available to students and scholars beginning in 2017.

A team of University of Iowa accounting students recently won the regional championship of a tax case study sponsored by Deloitte, a national accounting and consulting service.

The Joffrey Ballet debuts its new rendition of “The Nutcracker” this weekend on the Hancher stage, Chuck Swanson, executive director of Hancher, and Ashley Wheater, artistic director of the Joffrey Ballet, sat down with “Iowa Now” to talk about “The Nutcracker” and the history between Hancher and the Joffrey Ballet.

The University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital is postponing its move-in until late January or early February 2017. The safety and comfort of patients, their families, and staff are the top priorities, and officials determined that they are close but not quite ready to move into the new facility.

The Tippie College of Business’ Hawkinson Institute of Business Finance trains UI students for careers in corporate finance, and more and more of them are looking to California’s booming San Francisco Bay Area to get their careers started.

University of Iowa space scientists are readying for the final phases of NASA’s Cassini mission to Saturn. They hope to learn more about Saturn’s auroras, thunderstorms, and rings from a radio- and plasma-wave instrument designed and built at the UI.

The University of Iowa ranks first in the nation in an assessment of how accessible its websites are to people with disabilities.

The Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust has committed a $45 million grant to the University of Iowa that will allow for the creation of a comprehensive and cross-disciplinary neuroscience center within the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine.