A University of Iowa study shows that decreasing the density of a network of fibers inside heart cells can protect against heart failure.

More than 150 high school students from around the state came to campus to present original research and participate in hands-on learning labs during the 2014 Regional Junior Science and Humanities Symposium hosted by the UI College of Education's Belin-Blank Center.

Five of the more than 150 Iowa high school students from across the state were chosen to advance to a national conference after presenting their original research on the UI campus during the 2014 Iowa Regional Junior Science and Humanities Symposium.

UI psychiatry professor Stephan Arndt published a paper last year that found blacks are an average of 10 percentage points less likely to graduate drug treatment than whites with similar addiction profiles.

Author and chemist Carl Djerassi will give a keynote address at the symposium "Pill and Pen: Contraception and Unwanted Pregnancy in Literature and Popular Culture." The symposium will be held March 7 to 9 in various locations across the UI campus.

The annual "Cancer in Iowa" report issued by the State Health Registry of Iowa, based in the University of Iowa College of Public Health, will be released at a special press briefing at 10 a.m. on Monday, March 10.

About 150 Iowa students attended the 2014 Iowa Regional Junior Science and Humanities Symposium hosted Thursday and today by the UI College of Education’s Belin-Blank Center; 15 of the students presented original research, and nine UI colleges, departments, or facilities gave lab tours.

A University of Iowa Alumni Association event in Dubuque on Tuesday, March 11 features a 3D anatomy program in a discussion about the human pelvis.

UI doctors presented a Mini Medical School workshop on melanoma at Indian Hills Community College, noting that while older Iowans often have the most sun-damaged skin after years of outdoor exposure, more young people are developing deadly melanoma due to overexposure in tanning beds.

The 2014 Iowa Regional Junior Science and Humanities Symposium, hosted by the University of Iowa College of Education's Belin-Blank Center, will bring more than 150 of the top science and math high school students from across the state to the UI campus Feb. 27 and 28.

The University of Iowa will host the traveling exhibit “Black Health Legends - Pioneers Who Dared to Care” on the health sciences campus in February and March. The display features notable achievements of African-American health care pioneers.

Illusionist Kevin Spencer worked recently with University of Iowa physical therapy students to show them how magic can help make rehabilitation more fun and less frustrating for patients.