The University of Iowa Office of the Provost is launching a new initiative to celebrate exceptional faculty. The prestigious new UI Distinguished Professorship program will recognize tenured scholars with $100,000 to support professional activities over five years.

Daniel Newton, a professor of management and entrepreneurship in the Tippie College of Business, works with NASA to study methods of keeping astronauts more engaged in their work during long-duration space missions. The lessons could be used to help earthbound workers stay focused on their jobs. 

The University of Iowa has again been named a top producer of Fulbright students for 2019–20 (with a record number of 19 recipients), marking the fifth consecutive year the university achieved the elite ranking. Out of 19 awards offered to UI students, 18 have accepted and become grantees.

A study by Paul Romitti, professor of epidemiology in the College of Public Health, finds that babies whose mothers smoked marijuana while pregnant are more apt to have low birth weight and slow early childhood development.