Board of Regents Newsletter: December 2025 Newsletter
Board Membership Owen Newlin, President, Des Moines Lisa Ahrens, Osage James Arenson, Cedar Rapids David Fisher, West Des Moines Clarkson Kelly, Charles City Ellengray Kennedy, Bancroft Roger Lande, Muscatine Nancy Pellett, Atlantic Beverly Smith, Waterloo Highlights The Board awarded Knutson Mid-America Construction Services a $40.4 million contract to build a...
A new president at ISU and a farewell to President Wintersteen. New hospitals and national championships at Iowa. Celebrating 150 years of UNI. See below for everything that made news in 2025. 2025 UI year in review ISU year in review The moments that made 2025 at UNI
As part of its sesquicentennial celebration, the University of Northern Iowa is launching “UNI 150: People You Should Know,” a storytelling project designed to spotlight the individuals and groups whose leadership, innovation and excellence have been instrumental in building and shaping UNI. Throughout the year, the series will feature alumni,...
Early in his career as an Iowa State University agronomy professor, Patrick Schnable started wondering if he could build a startup from his plant genetics research. He knew it was common at some institutions, but it didn’t seem to come up often on his own campus. He wasn’t even sure...
Of the 39 researchers who have won the Avenir Award within the decade of its existence, Susan Shen, MD, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry in the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, is the first female psychiatrist, the first from Iowa, and only the third psychiatrist overall to receive...
