UI nursing students and volunteers with the Retired Senior Volunteer Program have joined forces to create a valuable learning opportunity, where volunteers simulate being elderly patients to help students gain real-world knowledge working with older adults.

The University of Iowa is transitioning to new anti-virus software, which means students and employees who use Symantec on their home computers will need to switch to another product by June.

Cory Taylor kicks off this year’s Public Digital Humanities for Lunch (PDH4L) series with “(Re)creating the World: Modeling for Google Earth with Trimble SketchUp" from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 24. The presentation is free and open to the public.

Tlaloc Rivas came to theater through activism, embracing the art for its capacity to illuminate problems and inspire change. Now a UI professor of theatre arts, he talks about plays, politics, and his more recent project—a centerpiece of the 2013 MLK Celebration of Human Rights.

University of Iowa College of Education Interim Dean Nick Colangelo, and recent UI education graduate Joey Ackerman, both comment on Iowa Gov. Branstad's education reform package, which puts teachers as its centerpiece.

The University of Iowa Police Department recently welcomed three new police officers—Edward Cardenas, Brett Cooper, and Gabriella Blanchard-Manning.

The UI has hired a contractor to cut and grind dead and dying pine trees into biomass, allowing the UI to further develop the concept of using local, sustainably managed biomass as fuel, according to Liz Christiansen, director of the UI Office of Sustainability.

Outdoor warning system sirens in the Iowa City area, including on the University of Iowa campus, will sound twice over the noon hour Friday, Jan. 18, as part of a test. Johnson County's countywide radio system software was recently upgraded and the test is intended to make sure it's working properly.

With 70 years of association with the University of Iowa—as an undergraduate student, a graduate student, a faculty member, an administrator, and a volunteer—the late communication studies professor Sam Becker more than earned the unofficial, honorary title of Mr. University of Iowa.

Adam Keune, Alec Whitters, and Ben O'Connor co-founded the new Coralville-based startup, Higher Learning Technologies, located in the UI's Oakdale Research Park.

An anonymous person paid the bill and wrote a note of thanks to members of the UI AirCare team who were dining at a restaurant after attending a memorial service for three members of the Mercy Air Medical Team killed in a medical helicopter crash.

As part of the 2013 Live Healthy Iowa 10-Week Wellness Challenge, Live Healthy Iowa has selected the second annual Dream Team. Jennifer Long, a UI Heart and Vascular Center employee and heart disease survivor, brings her story of health challenges and lifestyle changes to the Dream Team.