The Senior Project connects high school students with area seniors. Their work together will result in written portraits of new friends made across the generations.

Natalya Hutchinson was among the 137 medical students in the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine who found out where they will serve their residencies during Match Day 2013.

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 on Wednesday, March 20. The report includes county-by-county statistics, summaries of new research projects, and a section focused on breast cancer, the most commonly registered cancer among women in Iowa. The news briefing will feature key...

Fourth-year students in the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine today took part in Match Day, the annual event where medical students nationwide learn where they will begin their medical residency training following graduation

A team of University of Iowa researchers will study the progressive loss of the optic nerve, which is a hallmark of glaucoma.

The Iowa Neurological Patient Registry was founded in 1982 by UI researchers. The one-of-a-kind registry collects multiple instances of patients who have experienced brain damage as a result of injury, illness, or surgery, and helps researchers determine if lesions in one specific brain area always produce the same cognitive or behavioral deficits.

Nominations are now being accepted for the UI Children's Hospital Kid Captain program for 2013.

Daniel McGehee, director of the University of Iowa’s Human Factors and Vehicle Safety Research Division, comments on the impact of surveillance cameras in vehicles in a story on how Des Moines will soon install such cameras in city vehicles.

Dafna Lemish, a leading scholar on children and the media, will present a lecture Friday, March 15, at 3 p.m. titled, “Communicating with Children: Principles and Practices to Nurture, Inspire, Excite, Educate, and Heal.” The talk is free and open to the public.

The maxillary sinuses, those pouches on either side of the human nose, have a purpose after all: They act as cushions to allow noses to assume different shapes. The study by a University of Iowa-led research team explains the relationship for the first time. Results appear in the journal "Anatomical Record."

A review of the annual report tops the agenda for the bi-monthly meeting of the Partnership for Alcohol Safety, to be held at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 13, in Room 203 of the Johnson County Health and Human Services Building, 855 South Dubuque St., Iowa City.

Researchers at the Advanced Manufacturing Technology group at the University of Iowa College of Engineering's Center for Computer Aided Design are working on 3D bioprinters to create replacement parts for damaged and failing human organs and tissue.