Spotlight
Students front and center of new gameday commercial — and behind it, too
University of Iowa team taps into the skills of students to serve as consultants, create mixed media animation, and provide the voice-over for this year's spot, “Iowa Feels Like Home.”
Student success
Writing across disciplines: Among elite company
Iowa’s unmatched writing-related resources prepare its graduates for success in many fields. This level of excellence positions Iowa as the best public university for writing and communication.
Iowa’s 2025 incoming class, by the numbers
This fall, the University of Iowa welcomes the second-largest first-year cohort in university history.
Incoming med student finds purpose through family and community
Helping care for her grandfather at the end of his life changed Reese Rosenmeyer’s life. Now a first-year medical student and part of the Carver Rural Iowa Scholars Program, she plans to practice in Iowa after training.
Health care
Meet Kid Captain Micah Norby
Micah Norby of Greenfield was diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a rare condition that causes progressive muscle weakness. He became the first child in Iowa to receive a new gene therapy for Duchenne.
Meet Kid Captain Lily Sebastian
Born with a rare birth defect in which her abdominal organs were outside her body, Lily Sebastian spent nearly 10 months in the UI Health Care Stead Family Children's Hospital NICU. Today, the Cedar Rapids girl is thriving.
Meet Kid Captain Jaxton Engstrom
Facing rare Batten disease, Waterloo teen Jaxton Engstrom receives lifesaving, multidisciplinary care from specialists at UI Health Care Stead Family Children’s Hospital.
Research
Galls, thieves, and parasites: Iowa biologists unspool wild world of oak-dwelling wasps
Iowa biologist Andrew Forbes’ lab, with a grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation, is revealing the unknown ecological world of parasitic wasps, which have value to cataloging biological diversity and controlling insect pests in agriculture and forests.
Iowa researchers celebrate TRACERS launch
Dozens of scientists from the University of Iowa traveled to Lompoc, California, to joyfully witness the successful rocket launch associated with TRACERS — the NASA-funded mission to study the mysterious, powerful interactions between the magnetic fields of the sun and Earth.
TRACERS: The milestone moments (so far)
With the TRACERS launch imminent, take a trip through the timeline of the university’s largest externally funded research project, which will examine the powerful interactions between the magnetic fields of the sun and Earth.
Always a Hawkeye: Alumni stories
Coming home: State champion returns to lead her alma mater
After chasing her goals across state lines and in a few different jobs, University of Iowa alumna Madison Melchert is back home and ready to lead the next generation at Dallas Center-Grimes High School as activities director.
Making a difference for kids in the ER
Medicine alumna Laura Socwell didn’t plan to work in pediatric emergency medicine. Now, she’s proud to care for Iowa’s littlest patients.
Iowa photojournalism grad looks for new angles
After an award-winning stint as a photographer with "The Daily Iowan" and the opportunity to document a historic women’s basketball tournament run, Grace Smith is continuing to pursue creative visual storytelling — and to photograph a favorite Iowa baller.
Community impact
UI Health Care hosts 'All-Iowa' career fair aimed at keeping more physicians in the state
As leaders look to address the state's physician workforce needs, the event showcases job opportunities at Iowa-based health systems for residents and fellows.
Hawkeyes make a difference all along RAGBRAI route (and beyond)
From the west to the east, the University of Iowa and its alumni provide expertise in areas as varied as health care, education, and law.
Iowa engineering students save West Burlington $60,000
Emma Oelmann and Blake Misfeldt developed a preliminary design for a trail in West Burlington, Iowa, for their senior design project.
Faculty and staff features
Writing across disciplines: Among elite company
Iowa’s unmatched writing-related resources prepare its graduates for success in many fields. This level of excellence positions Iowa as the best public university for writing and communication.
Cardiothoracic surgeon says Iowa care team has heart
When you need a procedure as complex as open-heart surgery, you should choose the best, most experienced care team. That is exactly what University of Iowa Health Care offers to heart patients, says Mohammad Bashir.
UI detective unravels identity theft scheme
Thanks to Ian Mallory’s investigation, which involved untangling hundreds of documents and obtaining a crucial DNA test, a California man who had been falsely imprisoned and involuntarily hospitalized for saying he was who he said he was regained his true identity.
Athletics
Coming home: State champion returns to lead her alma mater
After chasing her goals across state lines and in a few different jobs, University of Iowa alumna Madison Melchert is back home and ready to lead the next generation at Dallas Center-Grimes High School as activities director.
Meet Kid Captain Micah Norby
Micah Norby of Greenfield was diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a rare condition that causes progressive muscle weakness. He became the first child in Iowa to receive a new gene therapy for Duchenne.
Meet Kid Captain Lily Sebastian
Born with a rare birth defect in which her abdominal organs were outside her body, Lily Sebastian spent nearly 10 months in the UI Health Care Stead Family Children's Hospital NICU. Today, the Cedar Rapids girl is thriving.