Board of Regents Newsletter: August 2019 Newsletter

Iowa's public universities welcomed students back to campuses this week. Read and watch how Iowa, Iowa State and UNI kicked off the 2019-20 academic year. A Fall Welcome from President Harreld I Welcome, University of Iowa Hawkeyes President Wintersteen's ISU Welcome I Postcards from Campus: A Fresh Start President Nook...
Cinzia Cervato, a Morrill Professor of geological and atmospheric sciences at Iowa State University, is leading collaborators across campus and from three other Midwestern research universities who will develop strategies and tools that could help women of color and women with family responsibilities find faculty success in science, technology, engineering...
Three Iowa faculty members have been awarded Fulbright grants to conduct research, study, or teach abroad in 2019–20. Iowa’s three faculty Fulbright awardees are Jonathan Wilcox, professor of English; Mercedes Bern-Klug, professor in the School of Social Work and director of the Aging and Longevity Studies Program; and Leslie Locke,...
Jigang Wang can break his research goals into just a few words: “To discover and control quantum states of matter.” But, it takes paragraphs, analogies, illustrations, internet searches and a willingness to decipher talk about “non-equilibrium quantum phase discovery via non-thermal ultrafast quench near quantum critical points” to get a...
The UNI Gallery of Art will present "The Many Voices of Art," which will be open to the public on the following dates: Aug. 19 – Oct. 5; Oct. 16 – Nov. 16; and Dec. 5 – 19. Please note, the gallery will be closed Monday, Sept. 2 for Labor...