Board of Regents Newsletter: June 2018 Newsletter

Dr. Jim Lindenmayer of Ottumwa was appointed to the Board of Regents on June 29, 2018, by Governor Kim Reynolds to fill the unexpired term of Subhash Sahai. His term on the board expires April 30, 2019.

Learning Polish wasn’t part of Jennifer Croft’s plan when she arrived at the University of Iowa in 2001 to begin her MFA in literary translation. “In some ways, my life has been determined by happy coincidences,” Croft says. Croft had majored in both English and Russian and completed a minor...
Researchers from Iowa State University, the University of Iowa and the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) – all of them affiliated with the Nanovaccine Institute based at Iowa State with branches in Iowa City and Omaha, Nebraska – are working to help improve treatment options for pancreatic cancer. Read...
Almost 50 years ago, millions of people across the globe watched from their televisions as astronaut Neil Armstrong walked on the moon—a landmark achievement of human ambition that gave way to those immortal words: “That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Next year represents the 50th...