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PRESTIGIOUS POETRY POST
The Library of Congress has named UI Writers' Workshop alumnus and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Philip Levine—whose work addresses the joys and sufferings of industrial life—the 18th U.S. Poet Laureate. More
RESEARCH FUNDING
UI grant and contract funding totaled $456.6 million in fiscal year 2011, remaining remarkably steady despite a significant downturn in overall federal funding for research. The number marks the University's second-highest yearly total ever, just 2.2 percent below the record total of $466.5 million received in 2010. More
GREEN ACCOLADES
The Board of Regents, State of Iowa, was among 20 Iowa organizations and businesses that recently received Environmental Excellence Awards from Gov. Terry Branstad for the sustainability efforts of its three universities, including The University of Iowa. More
DRIVER ED
The National Advanced Driving Simulator, a research unit of the UI College of Engineering, is designing a driving simulation software platform for an Arizona-based firm that provides driving instruction for teen drivers and new drivers of all ages. More
TECH ACCESSIBILITY
Advocates for the rights of people with disabilities around the globe now have a new way to find the information resources they need: the Global Disability Rights Library, an innovative technology that delivers digital information anywhere in the world, even to places the Internet does not reach. The University's WiderNet Project recently released the first prototype version of the library. More
CELESTIAL STORMS
University researchers continue to monitor one of the largest thunderstorms ever seen on the planet Saturn, with clouds covering an area equal to eight times the surface area of the Earth. Their observations are detailed in the latest issue of the journal Nature. More
CRIMINAL JUSTICE
A new book by UI law professor Jim Tomkovicz aims to restore some of the rules that once helped people defend themselves at trial but have been eroded by the U.S. Supreme Court in recent decades. More
HEART FIRST
Leaders of UI Hospitals and Clinics recently announced that Iowa's only comprehensive academic medical center has implanted the state's first Total Artificial Heart. More
Related: UI Hospitals and Clinics again ranked among national elite
Related: UI Hospitals and Clinics again ranked among national elite
LUNG RESEARCH
Researchers at the UI Carver College of Medicine have discovered that in cystic fibrosis patients, the airway glands are depleted of a specific population of airway stem cells that participate in airway repair following injury. More
DREAM TEAM
Thirteen current and former patients of UI Children's Hospital will have a special reason to remember this year's Iowa Hawkeye football season. Each of them will serve as a Kid Captain for one of the 2011 Iowa Hawkeye football games. More
WEIGHTY MATTER
Twenty new faculty members will be hired in seven different colleges to work jointly with existing faculty at The University of Iowa to study both the challenges of the obesity epidemic and the expanding needs of the study of genetics and genomics. More
Related: UI nursing professor uses Harry Potter books to build 'genetic literacy'
Related: UI nursing professor uses Harry Potter books to build 'genetic literacy'
OAK OR MAPLE?
The third edition of Forest and Shade Trees of Iowa, by Peter J. van der Linden and Donald R. Farrar, is now available from the Bur Oak Guides series of the University of Iowa Press. More
RIVALRY RUN-UP
On the last Friday of November in Lincoln, Neb., the football teams from The University of Iowa and the University of Nebraska will square off in the first of what is expected to be a long, competitive, and entertaining rivalry between one of the Big Ten Conference's original member institutions and the league's most recent addition. The institutions plan to use occasion to honor one "citizen hero" from each state. More
SEASON'S GREETINGS
The 2011-12 season for The University of Iowa's Hancher was announced in early June. However, until now, tickets were only available via the order form on the Hancher web site. More
HIGH SCORE
The UI athletics department officially closed the 2010-11 athletics year with a bang, establishing a school record in total points scored in the annual Learfield Sports Directors' Cup. The Hawkeyes accumulated 510 points in the competition that awards points based on each institution's finish in national championship competition in up to 20 total sports. Iowa finished 43rd among 284 NCAA Division I institutions. More
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“Journey’s imprint on the popular culture—from high school proms to sporting events to TV shows—guarantees they will not be forgotten. They are a shorthand way of evoking the late ’70s-early ’80s.”
Steve Horowitz, who teaches an online course at The University of Iowa called Rock and Roll in America and is a staff writer for Popmatters.com, on the reconstituted—and re-touring—1970s musical group (Today, July 28).
“I don’t think I’ll play competitively again; I’ll be 105 in September, but I’m proud of my medals.”
University of Iowa alumnus John Donnelly, a tennis table champ and winner of the National Senior Games Championship who once appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, on his unwavering enthusiasm for the sport (Tampa Bay Online, July 20).
FRESHMAN WEEK
Taking exams and more. More
BOUGHT AND SOLD
Alumni work to fight human trafficking, in the United States and abroad. More
2011 GIVING NEARS RECORD
A record number of contributors in fiscal 2011 made for the second-best fund-raising year in UI history. More
