Board of Regents Newsletter: July 2025 Newsletter

The Iowa Board of Regents met virtually July 30, 2025, originating from Seerley Hall at UNI. FY 2026 Budgets VIDEO The Board passed an $8.4 billion FY 2026 Budget for the universities, the Board Office and the Iowa Lakeside Laboratory. Of the $8.4 billion budget, more than $1.8 billion is...

The Iowa Open Education Action Team recently announced the release of its 2024/2025 Annual Report. The report includes findings from the OER annual survey, which was sent to all Iowa colleges and universities earlier this spring. In addition to these findings, the report also includes a summary of the action...

On July 23, 2025, at 11:13 a.m. PDT, a Falcon 9 rocket shot upward from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, and the University of Iowa notched a significant milestone in space physics. The rocket carried two satellites, each equipped with five instruments exhaustively tested by Iowa scientists, for TRACERS,...

The Princeton Review has named the David W. Wilson College of Business Master of Business Administration (MBA) program as one of the Best Business Schools for 2025. UNI is one of only 213 institutions nationwide to earn this prestigious recognition — an honor the program has consistently held for 19...

You can’t tell it was a lithium-ion battery. A lab photo shows a messy pile of charred and burned fragments and powders that were ejected from the battery can. This is what happens when a battery is pushed beyond its limits, to what engineers and scientists call “thermal runaway,” resulting...