The University of Iowa is capturing and preserving images of spray-painting on campus during recent Black Lives Matter protests to ensure the messages are not forgotten and can help guide campus in its work to make meaningful changes.

“We Stand Together” temporary murals in places like the UI Children's Hospital, Finkbine golf course, and the Jacobsen Building were made to show that the University stands together through the pandemic. These murals were made possible thanks to collaboration between UI Athletics, UIHC, and FM.

Nearly all University of Iowa utilities system employees accepted an offer from ENGIE North America as part of the university’s 50-year public-private partnership (P3). The partnership will allow the university to invest $15 million per fiscal year via grants dedicated to supporting the UI’s strategic plan and core missions of teaching, research, and scholarship.

The University of Iowa cut the ceremonial ribbon at its new Psychological and Brain Sciences building Jan. 24, as students, faculty, and staff within the department transition out of its previous home in 120-year-old Seashore Hall. As the spring semester has begun, UI Psychological and Brain Sciences Department Chair Mark Blumberg said he has watched with pleasure while students, faculty, and staff discover the building and what it has to offer.

The University of Iowa has received approval from the Board of Regents, State of Iowa, to enter into a 50-year partnership involving its utility system with ENGIE North America and Meridiam. The UI is one of the first universities in the country to engage in a utility public-private partnership (P3).

For years, the European Larch on the University of Iowa Pentacrest provided shade and a place for children to play on its unique low-hanging branches. When winds from a thunderstorm claimed the beloved tree in September, many were upset by the loss. Although it can never be replaced, a new European Larch is taking the place of where the tree once stood.

A project designed to improve safety on one of the University of Iowa campus’ most heavily used pedestrian walkways will begin this month.

More than 11 years after floodwaters forced the museum from its original building along the Iowa River, construction is underway on the new $50 million, 63,000-square-foot facility next to the UI Main Library and Gibson Square Park. Meanwhile, museum staff are preparing for an expected 2022 opening. 

Three buildings on the Pentacrest will receive makeovers after the state Board of Regents voted in approval of the University of Iowa’s request to move forward with a project to modernize and restore the center of campus.

Iowa City residents and tree enthusiasts mourned the loss of a large European larch tree, located on the Pentacrest lawn, after wind from severe storms passed through the area late Monday night. Including the European larch, about three to five trees were lost in the storm and there were lots of trees that sustained limb loss overnight Monday.