When interviewing, Caroline Stefanie Clay was told, “Should you get the position, you would be the first African American female — women of color — to have a full-time tenure track position within the 70-year history of the department.”
Overnight Wednesday, the University of Iowa updated its Office of the President website to reflect its new leadership — presenting Barbara Wilson as its 22nd president. On Thursday, she officially took the helm, promising to usher in a “new era of excellence” for the Hawkeyes.
In partnership with the University of Georgia, a UI team recently published promising findings showing a single-dose inhaled COVID-19 vaccine fully protected mice against lethal infection and also blocked animal-to-animal transmission.
Both University of Iowa and Iowa State University this week reported new external funding records for the budget year that wrapped June 30.
Just weeks before starting her tenure as 22nd University of Iowa president, Barbara Wilson recently signed a formal employment contract and deferred compensation plan that includes some notable differences from those of her predecessor Bruce Harreld.
Six-million-dollar grant will enable the launch of a new UI Hawkeye Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center, or Hawk-IDDRC.
Chad Ingels, a northeast Iowa farmer and Republican state representative, said he was angered by a March 26 opinion piece on the Civil Eats website written by Chris Jones, an IIHR research engineer, about race and water quality.
Since putting into an endowment $985.9 million of the $1.165 billion it received in an upfront payment as part of a 50-year deal to let a private collaborative operate its utilities system, the University of Iowa’s P3 investment fund has increased $139.9 million, officials told The Gazette.
All the talk of sending more people into the weightless expanse above Earth has NASA thinking more intentionally about the risk of cancer-causing radiation exposure to astronauts; what constitutes an acceptable level; how to communicate risks; and when and how to take them.
University of Iowa grad Dustin Godsey is in “the place to be” right now as Bucks chief marketing officer.
After being frozen for over a year during the pandemic, federal student loan payments are set to resume Oct. 1.
Enrollment at Iowa’s public universities is down this summer after a pandemic-plagued fall and spring — dragging Iowa State’s numbers to their lowest level in at least a decade and resurrecting 90s-era University of Iowa summer counts.
During her yearlong $439,000 “special assistant” to the president assignment that ended Wednesday, former University of Iowa Provost Montse Fuentes was charged with assessing the impact of COVID-19 across higher education and reporting best practices for navigating the pandemic.
Kohawk graduate served as athletics equipment manager, school’s biggest supporter
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