The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has announced the recipients of its prestigious awards for faculty who received a promotion to tenured associate professor and full professor, and to associate professor and full professor of instruction. The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has announced seven faculty members will receive the college’s esteemed Dean’s Scholar, Collegiate Scholar, Distinguished Associate Professor of Instruction, and Distinguished Professor of Instruction awards.

For CLAS students, finals are not one-size-fits-all. This guide focuses on preparation strategies across disciplines to help you perform well, whatever your final exam looks like.

The University of Iowa’s music therapy program turns 50 this year, and a graduate student is turning her own experience with spinal surgery into research that helps adolescents recovering from the same procedure.

Standing on the shoulders and in the former offices of space-science giants like James Van Allen, Don Gurnett and Craig Kletzing, a team of University of Iowa scientists beamed with pride this week at the campus’ new, state-of-the-art Spaceflight Laboratory.

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is pleased to recognize the scholarship and achievement of our students graduating in May 2026 with distinction and honors.

The University of Iowa is continuing to build on its national leadership in communication sciences and disorders with a reimagined clinical space and an enduring commitment to hands-on education.

Six faculty members were nominated by their colleagues to receive these prestigious, annual awards from the college.

Cathy Yea Won Sung and Anne Martin, who joined CLAS last fall, are advancing research in hearing loss and brain science with support from the National Institutes of Health and the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust.

The Office of the Vice President for Research awarded funding to 12 interdisciplinary University of Iowa research teams to support the development of large, competitive grant proposals. Seven of those teams engage CLAS researchers. The program begins this year and will run through 2029.

Valerie Payré, assistant professor in the School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability, was never interested in confining her research to Earth; instead, she expanded her horizons to studying the formation of volcanoes on Mars.