The Daily Nonpareil editorial board calls the University of Iowa's new scholarship program, Raise.me, "laudable for a couple reasons," including preparing high schoolers for college and not precluding enrollment at a community college.

The popularity of the University of Iowa's Jackson Pollock masterpiece Mural is an example of the continuing resurgence in popularity of the mercurial and groundbreaking 20th-century American artist.

Researchers at the University of Iowa have found that overweight and obese children are at greater risk for pedestrian injury.

When Grinnell's ASI Signage wanted to expand its market and start selling its products around the world, the UI's Institute for International Business was ready to help.

Columnist James Stewart writes that the Republican strategy of expecting a GOP president and GOP Senate to select the next Supreme Court justice is dubious at best, given current probabilities on the Iowa Electronic Markets, the Tippie College's political futures market.

Iowa swept the basketball academic awards given by the College Sports Information Directors of America. Men’s basketball player Jarrod Uthoff was named the national Academic All-America of the Year, while Ally Disterhoft won the same award for women’s basketball. No other school has won both awards in the same year.

Why are there different hominin species sprinkled throughout the islands of Southeast Asia? A study led by UI paleoanthropologist Russell Ciochon suggests that ancient humans followed nomadic prey throughout the islands as the climate changed, then became isolated and later went extinct.

Gov. Terry Branstad was among those in attendance as UI dedicated the new Quad Cities home of the Tippie College of Business in Davenport.

The University of Iowa has partnered with the Raise.me scholarship platform on a statewide pilot project to encourage and improve college readiness among Iowa high school students.

Parents and guardians of current or former patients have until March 31 to nominate their child to be a 2016 Kid Captain.

The University of Iowa School of Music will live stream the March 4 Kantorei and University Choir performance, beginning at 7:25 p.m. CST.

The State Hygienic Laboratory at the University of Iowa performed 490 arsenic tests for well water throughout Iowa. From these, 189 tests (38.6 percent) showed the presence of arsenic at or above the quantitation limit of 1 parts per billion (ppb). An interactive map is available for browsing.