The UI coordinated with the City of Iowa City and LL Pelling Co. to paint a Tigerhawk logo on the T. Anne Cleary Walkway Jefferson Street intersection on Aug. 25. The UI is planning a second installation on Market Street on Thursday, September 15.  The UI selected LL Pelling Co. for the painting project.  Read the full article by the Daily Iowan to learn more.

Craig Just, UI associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, highlights how the university is improving Iowa communities through the work of the new Iowa Wastewater and Waste to Energy Research Program Tech Park, which he hopes will become a worldwide leader in innovative waste treatment to generate energy and recover resources.

The University of Iowa has moved up in the EPA’s Green Power Partner rankings and is now No. 2 in the Top 30 Colleges and Universities of the largest green power users. To achieve this ranking, Iowa uses green power for 84 percent of its operations’ total electricity needs, up from 73 percent last year.  

After nine years of touring Europe and the United States, Jackson Pollock’s ‘Mural’ is finally home at the University of Iowa as of July 14, where it will be on view when the UI Stanley Museum of Art reopens on August 26.

Work to replace the gold leaf on the University of Iowa’s most iconic building began in late May and is entering its final phase.

The University of Iowa has awarded eight interdisciplinary projects with $15 million in funding generated by the public-private partnership (P3) with its utility system.

The Board of Regents approved the University of Iowa’s proposal to establish the Iowa Center for School Mental Health in the UI College of Education.

Preceding the announcement of the University of Iowa as bee-friendly, campus and community partners brought a piece of interactive public art in Gibson Square Park to increase awareness and inspire action by the public in preserving and promoting bee habitats in Iowa City.

The native pollinator population is vital to the function of our native ecosystem and the vegetation and wildlife within it.To help prevent further decline, the University of Iowa has committed to protecting our native pollinator population through becoming a Bee Campus USA affiliate.

On Friday, April 29, the University of Iowa became the 13th location in the United States to plant a sapling grown from the chestnut tree that symbolized hope for Anne Frank as she hid from the Nazis during World War II.