Iowa KidSight is coordinated through the Iowa Lions Clubs and UI Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and screens thousands of preschool-aged children every year to detect vision impairment and direct them to the help they need.

An online game that lets citizen scientists help map the brain connections involved in vision is the subject of one of three public presentations by leading neuroscience experts being held April 16 and 17 to celebrate UI Health Sciences Research Week.

A University of Iowa study identifies a brain protein that acts as a communications hub for blood pressure control, and links cardiovascular disease and obesity to hypertension.

University of Iowa students, faculty, staff, and alumni received some of the institution’s highest honors—including Hancher-Finkbine Medallions recognizing leadership, learning, and loyalty—at the 96th annual Finkbine Dinner.

The University of Iowa recognizes nine undergraduates who help keep the university working, including one winner, Andrew Michalski, who has received state and regional honors, too.

How did a fourth-grader at a football game and a fifth-grader who wanted to be a teacher end up sharing a dream to become doctors and making it come true at the University of Iowa? This married couple shares their story.

University staff, faculty, and students are accomplishing great things every day. See who’s making news with awards, publications, promotion and tenure, and more.

The University of Iowa hosts a free, public screening of the film "The Waiting Room," a character-driven documentary that captures the raw reality of the uninsured patients and doctors and staff at Highland Hospital, a safety-net hospital in Oakland, Ca. The event takes place at 7 p.m. in the HNI Auditorium of the Pomerantz Center and is sponsored by the UI's Public Policy Center.

UI nursing, medical, and pharmacy students work with the Retired Senior Volunteer Program, where senior citizens volunteer to play the roles of patients, which helps students gain valuable experience.

Teens and preteens with a parent deployed in the military may be more likely to binge drink or misuse prescription drugs, according to a new study led by senior author Stephan Arndt, a psychiatry researcher at the University of Iowa.

Donald Black, professor of psychiatry at the UI’s Carver College of Medicine, says that most compulsive shoppers are not famous or wealthy, just ordinary people with an unusual problem, in a shopping addiction story, featuring Buzz Bissinger, who recently checked into rehab.

Leaders of University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics will present a special national award to faculty and staff on Tuesday, April 9, in recognition of their success in making organ and tissue donation possible.