Board of Regents Newsletter: March 2021 Newsletter

The University of Iowa Presidential Search Committee met March 26 to select semifinalists from a pool of 79 candidates. The committee advanced 12 candidates as semifinalists and will interview those individuals in virtual meetings April 1-3. The committee will select finalists from the pool of 12 semifinalists with the Board...
The Goldwater Scholarship is the premier undergraduate scholarship in mathematics, natural sciences and engineering in the United States. The scholarships are awarded by the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation to encourage outstanding students to pursue careers in STEM research. Iowa Students Named 2021 Goldwater Scholars Two Iowa...
Rosie Daniels' dream of owning a business started in her basement in the summer of 2019. Now, less than two years later, the natural hair- and skin-care products from her business, LuLit’s Hair Essence, are on the shelves of Hy-Vee, and she credits a community business accelerator that had assistance...
ISU psychology professor Douglas Gentile worked with the DQ (Digital Intelligence) Institute, an international think tank, to design a framework for digital literacy education. In a commentary, published by the journal Nature Human Behaviour, Gentile and his colleagues outlined how the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the need to implement this...