The Iowa Board of Regents has named the 21 members of the University of Iowa Presidential Search and Screen Committee. The committee is charged with identifying candidates for board consideration, in conjunction with the search consultant, Parker Executive Search, to serve as the next president of the UI.

A picturesque Chilean lake may hold the clues to one of Earth's largest climate change events, and give scientists predictions about future climate change. A group of University of Iowa researchers digs through the evidence.

The vibrant Pacifica Quartet will play music by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Ran in a concert Friday, March 6, at 7:30 p.m. at Riverside Recital Hall, culminating a week-long residency. University of Iowa's Hancher presents the concert in collaboration with the UI String Quartet Residency Program.

Deborah Elizabeth Whaley, an associate professor in the American Studies Department and African American Studies Program at the University of Iowa, writes a guest column about homelessness prior to the showing of "The Homestretch," a documentary that follows three homeless teenagers, that will be shown Tuesday, Feb. 24, at FilmScene.

In an article on the different forms computers and computing can take, University of Iowa computer scientist Douglas Jones says compatibility problems out-weigh the advantages of adopting ternary computing, which uses three possible values to solve problems instead of the usual two.

University of Iowa College of Law alumna Jenny Schulz founded Kids First Law Center, which represents children with separated parents, in 2005. The center will serve more than 800 children this year.

Since the White House launched the “It’s On Us” campaign in September, the movement has sparked more than 250 colleges and universities to take a definitive stand against sexual assault, including the University of Iowa.

Sandra Ramey, a police health expert in the UI College of Nursing, proposed a national intervention program to improve police officer health, before President Obama's Task Force on 21st Century Policing, which met in Washington on Monday.

Sue Buckley, the University of Iowa’s long-time vice president for human resources, has announced that she will retire on June 30.

The Iowa Department of Transportation is a world leader in some winter road maintenance techniques, UI engineering professor and international road salt expert Wilfrid Nixon told ninth-graders at Prairie Point Middle School.

University of Iowa President Sally Mason shares information about the next steps in the Iowa Board of Regents' TIER (Transparent Inclusive Efficiency Review) with UI students, faculty, and staff as the implementation phase is underway on campus.

Scientists at the UI and the Iowa City VA Medical Center have developed a targeted approach that overrides muscles' intrinsic energy efficiency and allows muscle to burn more energy. The findings might provide a basis for new obesity treatments that help overcome the body's natural resistance to weight loss.