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Translation Program receives a $1 million grant to form National Resource Center for Translation and Global Literacy

Monday, August 15, 2022
The award, through the US Department of Education, will support a proposed center that will leverage Iowa’s strengths in writing, translation, teacher education and international studies.

Music faculty member William Menefield premieres opera in Cincinnati

Thursday, August 11, 2022
Menefield is an assistant professor for jazz studies in the School of Music. He is behind the music of Fierce, an opera that debuted this summer in Cincinnati.

'Mural' returns home to UI Stanley Museum of Art after world tour

Monday, August 8, 2022
After nine years touring Europe and the United States, Jackson Pollock's "Mural" has returned to the University of Iowa, where it will be on view when the UI Stanley Museum of Art reopens Aug. 26

Iowa research finds invasive species’ success may lie in living fast, dying young

Monday, August 8, 2022
Study of freshwater snails found invasive lineages reproduced younger, faster.

Iowa research shows the importance of giving your brain a workout

Monday, August 8, 2022
Exercise maintains key brain connections that could lower the risk of Alzheimer’s as we age.

Physics and Astronomy professor to serve on National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committee

Monday, August 8, 2022
Associate Professor Allison Jaynes has been selected to serve on the Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics) Decadal Survey Steering Committee.

Hawks go for gold in sports careers

Monday, August 1, 2022
CLAS students, studying sports and recreation management, spent a week learning about many aspects of a career with the Olympics.

School of Music professor named fifth music director of Lexington Philharmonic

Wednesday, July 20, 2022
Mélisse Brunet, a faculty member in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, will split her time between teaching at Iowa and conducting in Kentucky.

Webb space telescope will expose Hawkeyes to a new frontier in astronomy and physics

Friday, July 15, 2022
Keri Hoadley, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, says the new telescope is ushering in an exciting and transformative time for her field.

School of Music inspires young musicians during summer camps

Wednesday, July 6, 2022
The school, housed in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, invites students who have completed sixth grade and above to the University of Iowa for more specialized musical training.