"U.S. News & World Report" ranks 26 University of Iowa graduate programs and colleges among the 25 best in the country among all public and private schools.

Jeffrey Murray has been awarded a $450,000, three-year grant that will allow him to build on his past discoveries in the area of premature birth with the goal of improving health care providers’ ability to predict which women are at high risk of delivering their baby too soon.

H.S. Udaykumar and Meena Khandelwal will discuss their efforts to trace the linkages among forests, energy, gender relations, health, consumption, and culture, and between the local and global processes at 4 p.m. Wednesday, March 13 at the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, 111 Church St.

Eli Perencevich, a UI professor and infectious-disease doctor, says he is concerned that there aren't a lot of methods in the tool kit that are significantly effective in curbing the spread of certain bacteria-resistant infections.

As part of a national campaign to raise awareness about the importance of patient safety, University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics leaders in Iowa City announced the winner of the hospital’s 2013 Great Catch Award, which honors health care providers who take action to prevent harm to patients.

The majority of women who participated in a new University of Iowa study saw their feet grow during pregnancy.

The Advanced Manufacturing Technology (AMTech) group at the University of Iowa is engaged in a variety of novel manufacturing activities that include the goal of creating a functioning human organ some 10 or 15 years from now.

A University of Iowa study published in the American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation proves a phenomenon that has long been observed—that pregnant women's feet really do grow along with their tummies.

Donald Black, UI professor of psychiatry, says that the behaviors displayed by people on the reality TV show Extreme Couponing could be considered variants of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

A University of Iowa study shows women's feet do indeed change from pregnancy. Why? Arch height and rigidity decrease in early pregnancy, causing increases in foot length that appear to be permanent. Results appear in the American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.

A new partnership with the UI Organ Transplant Center, Mercy Medical Center-Des Moines, and the Iowa Digestive Disease Center is improving care for patients with liver disease, especially in central and western Iowa.

Employment opportunities in the health science fields will be the topic of discussion when students from two eastern Iowa middle schools visit the University of Iowa Department of Biology this spring as part of Project HOPE, created by College of Education associate professor Saba Ali.