The university has named an executive director at the UI Research Foundation. Zev Sunleaf was promoted from interim executive director. He's been with the foundation since 2001.

Pigeons with iPads, olfactory functions and Alzheimer’s disease, smoking behaviors of stroke patients, and Ralph Ellison and The New York Times are all areas of research being pursued by students involved in the Summer Research Opportunities Program and the McNair Scholars program (SROP/McNair Scholars) through the University of Iowa Graduate College.

A $25 million pledge by the Fraternal Order of Eagles guaranteeing that one floor of the university's under-construction Pappajohn Biomedical Discovery Building be devoted to diabetes research has at least one member of the UI community feeling optimistic.

University of Iowa on Thursday named Debra A. Schwinn as the next dean of the Carver College of Medicine.

Death notices for current and retired UI employees. Links to online obituaries provided when available.

The University of Iowa offers American Red Cross swim lessons that are taught year-round for all ages. Each class is taught by a certified Water Safety Instructor and includes fun activities and lessons to help the participant learn how to swim and how to be safe in and around the water.

University of Iowa leaders today named Debra A. Schwinn, M.D., as the next dean of the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine.

The Iowa City and University of Iowa plan to contract with car-sharing company ZipCar promises a helpful transportation option for UI students.

Testing has found no chemical threat to the powdery substance inside a suspicious enveloped received on campus July 16.

Marie Gernes and Shaun Wilkinson, both University of Iowa College of Education doctoral students, submitted winning ideas to the college's first handheld app contest. Their ideas may be developed into functioning apps for the college’s faculty, staff, students, alumni, and friends to enjoy.

University of Iowa College of Education Dean Margaret Crocco shares her thoughts on the importance of creating a shorter, three-week program for education majors who would like to fulfill their student-teaching abroad.

The Get to Know series asks University of Iowa faculty and staff a few questions about their work and their outside interests. Today we visit with Leslie Prideaux, coordinator of Students Today, Alumni Tomorrow (S.T.A.T.).