The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences has awarded the University of Iowa Environmental Health Sciences Research Center a five-year, $7.9 million grant to continue investigating environmental health effects arising from rural and agricultural exposures and serving as a primary environmental health resource.

Sixty volunteers helped out with a 10-day archaeological dig this past March and April just outside of South Amana, making a significant contribution to our understanding of Meskwaki life around 1840 (and having fun in the process).

Scientists at the University of Iowa are studying brain development in adolescent children who have a genetic risk for developing alcohol use-related problems due to having a family history of alcoholism.

What should science look like in our schools? University of Iowa Professor Brian Hand will discuss the problem and potential solutions Thursday, May 17, at 7 p.m. in the UI Museum of Natural History's Biosphere Discovery Hub. The event is free and open to the public.

Two University of Iowa faculty, Rebecca Slayton and Ginger Yang, discuss their respective areas of expertise, preventing tooth decay and the cost of sexual violence.

Summer is approaching and with it the annual flood of college students from campus to cubicle, working as interns for a few months that often pay nothing but experience. A University of Iowa law researcher believes many of these unpaid internships need more oversight.

The Iowa Flood Center and IIHR—Hydroscience & Engineering (IIHR) at the University of Iowa have announced the selection of four watersheds for the initial phase of the Iowa Watershed Projects.

Christopher Brochu, University of Iowa associate professor of geoscience, identified a 27-foot-long crocodile, different from any species of crocodile previously known.

University of Iowa computer science professors Ted Herman and Jim Cremer discuss their class that focuses on building computer apps.

Doug Jones, University of Iowa associate professor of computer science and co-author of Broken Ballots: Will Your Vote Count? comments on the difficulty of getting voting software right.

University of Iowa associate professor of education Deborah Linebarger talks about her new study that examines the impact on children of television playing in the background. (Starts at 31:30 mark.)

University of Iowa paleontologist Christopher Brochu has discovered the fossilized remains of a 27-foot ancient crocodile that may have eaten humans whole.

Susan G. Assouline, associate director of the University of Iowa College of Education's Belin-Blank Center for Gifted Education, comments on the importance of comprehensively evaluating twice exceptional students.

University of Iowa professor Dr. Bradley Van Voorhis says a new study confirms speculation that infertile couples are at increased risk of having a child with birth defects.

New research by University of Iowa professor Phillip Lutgendorf explains how tea became increasingly popular in India during the 20th century.

University of Iowa professor Chris Brochu has identified the largest crocodile ever found, at 27 feet long it would have been able to swallow a human whole.

Consumers pay as much as 31 percent more for insurance because insurance companies have to comply with regulations from multiple states instead of just a single regulator, according to new research by a University of Iowa insurance expert.

A crocodile large enough to swallow humans once lived in East Africa, according to University of Iowa researcher Christopher Brochu whose paper on the discovery of a new crocodile species that was published in the May 3 issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

Two University of Iowa undergraduate researchers in the UI Honors Program and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS)—Allyson Mayer and Nicholas Rolston—have been named 2012 Goldwater Scholars.

University of Iowa students Suzanne Carter and Colorado Reed are inspired by different areas of math and physics. Both will further their studies at Cambridge University as Churchill Scholars.