Board of Regents Newsletter: October 2022 Newsletter

UNI officially launched Our Tomorrow: The Campaign for UNI with a campus celebration in October. Through the $250 million comprehensive campaign, donors are able to invest in all areas of the university. More than $187 million, or 75 percent of the funding goal, has been raised to date from 25,000...
Iowa State will honor Jack Trice with a year-long centennial commemoration, including a new sculpture, a new name for a street and special lectures and events. The commemoration “will honor Iowa State University’s first Black athlete, but it will also shine a light on what Jack Trice accomplished when he...
Christine Petersen, professor of epidemiology in the University of Iowa College of Public Health and director of the Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases at Iowa, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM). Read more from Iowa Now
About 120 students enrolled in the online 2+2 Elementary Education Bachelor of Arts program were honored at a special 2+2 Teacher Education Convocation and Celebration on Oct. 22 on the Des Moines Area Community College (DMACC) Urban Campus. Read more from Inside UNI
University of Iowa researchers have traced where that reaction to a threat arises. In a new study, the researchers confirmed a neural circuit linking two separate regions in the brain governs how animals, including humans, react to a stressful situation. Through experiments, the researchers showed how rats responded to a...
In a design lab at Iowa State University, Ling Zhang emerges from a forest of mannequins. The assistant professor of apparel, events and hospitality management is carrying two nursing bras and a camisole. They're prototypes Zhang designed and are part of a business she's launching to help new and expecting...