Check out these tips from Learning at Iowa for advice on mindset, goal setting, time management, and note-taking to help you kick off the spring semester.

Even after a month-long break from the hustle and bustle of college life, getting to class amidst the cold weather and overwhelming schedule can prove stressful. Here are some tips from a CLAS student to help you maintain motivation.

What CLAS students should know about supplemental learning and academic support

A University of Iowa professor developed a simulated European travel course that immerses students in language, culture, and history through a global curriculum initiative.

The University of Iowa received a $1.5 million award from the U.S. Department of Defense to expand materials science research at its MATFab facility, funding new equipment and infrastructure to advance quantum technologies and foster collaboration across disciplines and regional institutions.

CLAS junior, Sean Keene uses his podcast to capture the realities, lessons, and emotions behind studying internationally.

Anna Stanhewicz, associate professor in the University of Iowa Department of Health, Sport, and Human Physiology, has received the 2026 Henry Pickering Bowditch Award from the American Physiological Society, honoring excellence as an early career scholar. An emerging leader in women’s cardiovascular physiology, her research focuses on microvascular dysfunction and the links between pregnancy complications and long-term heart and metabolic disease risk. As part of the award, she will present a lecture at the American Physiology Summit in April 2026.

CLAS School of Art, History, and Design alumn Gary Freeburg (MFA ’78) finds beauty and stillness in Alaska’s volcanic landscapes. The renowned landscape photographer, who earned his MFA in photography at the University of Iowa, has spent decades documenting dramatic terrain shaped by powerful eruptions, including the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes in Katmai National Park. Freeburg sees serenity in places others might call desolate, capturing stark volcanic features in striking black-and-white and color images that evoke the calm of a Zen garden.

Voss, a faculty member in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, studies how lifestyle choices shape brain health through collaborative research across the University of Iowa.