Board of Regents Newsletter: June 2026 Newsletter
Board Membership S.J. Brownlee, President, Emmetsburg Peg Anderson, Bettendorf Percy Harris, Cedar Rapids Ann Jorgensen, Garrison John McDonald, Dallas Center June Murphy, Des Moines Arthur Neu, Carroll Fred Nolting, Waterloo Peter Wenstrand, Essex Meeting Highlights The Board deferred action on the appointment of James W. Johnson as the University of...
A University of Iowa-led physics team has detailed the extreme expansion of a magnetic cloud that originated from a huge, gaseous explosion on the sun. In a new study, the researchers describe the inflated magnetic cloud as recorded by spacecraft in fortuitous, separate locations as the cloud approached Earth. During...
UNI plans to launch EdVantageUNI, a centralized hub for professional learning, educational growth and support for school districts, practicing and aspiring educators, and families. This new center, an outward-facing arm of the College of Education, will serve as a gateway to: Professional Learning: offering a customized menu of UNI coursework...
The geologists spoke in apocalyptic terms about Iowa’s distant past: “A rift developed deep in the Earth, magma came up and tried to split the continent apart,” said Elizabeth Swanner, a professor of Earth, atmosphere and climate at Iowa State University. “This happened about a billion years ago in what...
