Leaders, faculty, and staff with UI Health Care continually strive for innovation and growth in all of the missions on which the organization is built. Ensuring that the facilities and the infrastructure that support those missions continue to reflect that same commitment to growth and innovation is key to providing the best in education, research, and health care.

The conduct of research, scholarship, and creative activities is at the core of the University of Iowa's multiple missions of education, research, service, and outreach to the state, region, nation, and beyond. Here is a sampling of the advances made in research at the UI over the past year.

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University of Iowa College of Pharmacy alumni Todd and Jon Thompson recently made Iowa history by opening the first true tele-pharmacy in the state.

The University of Iowa Healthier Workforce Center for Excellence (HWCE) in the College of Public Health will host its “Total Worker Health Symposium: Safe, Healthy and Cost-Effective Solutions” on November 29-30 at the Marriott Hotel in Coralville, Iowa.

University of Iowa scientists have discovered a new cause of neonatal hydrocephalus. The team discovered that cell-signaling defects disrupt immature brain cells involved in normal brain development. Treatment with lithium bypasses the defect in mice and reduces the hydrocephalus.

Keith Mueller, health management and policy professor in the UI College of Public Health, talks about the state of rural health care in Iowa and how it will change under the federal Affordable Care Act on Iowa Public Radio's "River to River" program.

Jeannette George, a nursing and international studies major with an emphasis in African studies, reflects on her life-changing decision to pursue awareness of sickle-cell anemia research far beyond her UI classroom.

An international research team that includes a University of Iowa investigator has successfully identified two areas of the human genome associated with a childhood disorder that leads to a premature closure of the bony plates of the skull. The study is published online in the journal Nature Genetics.

Nancy Andreasen, M.D., Ph.D., University of Iowa professor of psychiatry, who holds the Andrew H. Woods Chair of Psychiatry, has received the 2012 National Alliance of Mental Illness (NAMI) Scientific Research Award, honoring her contributions to the understanding of schizophrenia.

Tara Smith of the UI College of Public Health is quoted in a story on research examining pigs as possible carriers of the deadly Ebola virus. Smith, who was not involved in the study, is an expert on emerging infectious diseases.

A University of Iowa study says men are less likely to be seen as depressed—even when they are. James B. Potash, MD, study editor and UI professor of psychiatry, says there has been relatively little focus on education and depression in men.