Our most popular articles of 2025 have a theme: human excellence in the art and science disciplines at Iowa. From Grammy awards to NASA satellites, CLAS faculty, staff, and students continue to innovate into the future.

Dean Sara Sanders and Kevin Kregel, executive vice president and provost, will confer degrees at the ceremony, which includes graduates in CLAS and University College. Isa Holtze, from Olympia, Washington, will be the student speaker. Holtze will be graduating with high distinction with a degree in cinema.

CLAS biologist Andrew Forbes’ lab, with a grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation, is revealing the unknown ecological world of parasitic wasps.

Isabel Muzzio, professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, wants to answer how memories are stored, whether they can modified, and what sustains them over time.

The annual American Speech-Language-Hearing Association convention, held in Washington, D.C., included talks, presentations, and education development by students and faculty in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders.

Through a series of five-minute presentations on cultural foods and their meaning and use in different religions, students and faculty from the department broke bread to support the community.

CLAS poet, French translator retains inspiration from Engle’s model of ‘literary citizenship.’

Mark Berardi will lead a course titled, “Human Voice and AI Technologies: Accessibility, Security, and Health Care,” which will showcase CSD’s commitment to innovation in the field of communication sciences and disorders.

For more than five decades at the University of Iowa, Holstein taught tens of thousands of students and became one of the institution’s most celebrated educators.

The Way Up Conference, hosted in the state of Iowa by Kirkwood Community College for over 35 years, aims to develop staff and faculty in higher education institutions as they continue to develop leadership and administrative skills and expertise.