Ever since the NCAA permitted college athletes to get paid by companies that use their names, images and likenesses, athletes have tested the limits of their increasing power, writes Joshua Lens, faculty member in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Iowa.

Kelly Kadera and Sara Mitchell, faculty members in the Department of Political Science, host workshops that support, mentor and teach women in political science. A recent NSF grant will allow them to continue this work for another four years.

The Research Development Office recently granted six $47,000 awards as a part of the OVPR Interdisciplinary Scholars program, part of the Seeding Excellence Initiative.

Ali Hval, assistant professor of instruction in the School of Art, Art History, and Design, is no stranger to the Iowa City art scene and was recently awarded the Iowa Artist Fellowship grant of $10,000.

An idea to explore connections of humans and technology through dance sparked a creative collaboration between the University of Iowa College of Engineering and the Department of Dance.

Andrew Forbes, professor and associate chair of the department of Biology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, shares his love of insects.

The University of Iowa has received nearly $1.7 million from NASA to fund the OCHRE student-led sounding rocket mission that will study cusp dynamics in the Earth’s magnetosphere and help train the next generation of space physicists and instrumentalists.

Many of the prestigious writing programs are housed in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

The Iowa Board of Regents approved a new name and scope for the University of Iowa’s prominent hub for social science research, which will be led by a College of Liberal Arts and Sciences faculty member.

Deborah Whaley, a professor in the Department of English, discusses her book, 'Disciplining Women: Alpha Kappa Alpha, Black Counterpublics, and the Cultural Politics of Black Sororities,' after Vice President Kamala Harris brings AKA to a national stage.