April 19 open house features undergraduate research presentations, grad school seminar, talk on the future of energy, and more.

Experts at Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Iowa are the first in the state to offer intraoperative radiation therapy (IORT) for breast cancer patients. The treatment allows a therapeutic dose of radiation to be delivered immediately following surgery while the patient is still in the operating room.

Lacan and the Science of Rhetoric is the subject of the University of Iowa Department of Communication Studies 2012 Hitchcock Lecture.

Ernest Pascarella, Mary Louise Petersen Professor of Higher Education at the UI College of Education, participated in a study that illustrates the surprising impact of college on students' interest in diversity and racial understanding. As undergraduates progress in higher education, they become less interested, on average, in promoting racial understanding.

Much of the world identifies people by one of two genders. Rather than accept the status quo, stef shuster is changing it—one presentation, paper, and conversation at a time.

Law professor Lea VanderVelde writes that Harriet Scott may have played an important role in her husband's legal quest for freedom.

With Rick Santorum suspending his campaign Tuesday, Mitt Romney is now the all but official Republican nominee, an outcome the Iowa Electronic Markets saw as the most probable since Sept. 11, 2011.

The Iowa Cochlear Implant Clinical Research Center at the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine has received its fifth consecutive grant renewal from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.

Trenton Place, a graduate student in the University of Iowa Molecular and Cellular Biology Graduate Program, has been awarded a $2,500 grant from the American Medical Association Foundation’s Seed Grant Research Program to examine how oxygen levels within pancreatic cancer tumors affect the cancer's ability to spread to distant organs.

University of Iowa researchers have been awarded a $1.3 million grant as part of the Iowa Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research, part of a larger five-year, $20 million grant awarded to build Iowa’s research capacity in renewable energy and energy efficiency at Iowa’s three public universities.

A new study by a University of Iowa researcher suggests that investors put more faith in venture capitalists and other private financial firms than they do in corporations when it comes to evaluating mergers and acquisitions.

New rock-fracturing technology has brought oil boom times to North Dakota. However, a UI researcher says the roads leading to the state’s oil riches may be paved with a potential health hazard.

It’s now official. Des Moines is the formal site of a regional branch campus for the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine. A recent agreement between the Des Moines Area Medical Education Consortium and the UI Carver College of Medicine cements the arrangement for the next 10 years.

People with tinnitus may be eligible to participate in a University of Iowa study examining a method for testing tinnitus.

University of Iowa sociologist Mary Noonan's research found that long-term breastfeeding entails an economic cost to women, in the form of decreased earnings.

New software developed by UI student and faculty will aid in preparations for evacuation during future floods.

The Midwest Melanoma Partnership, an initiative to advance melanoma research and improve care for patients with melanoma, was launched this month by a group of physicians, researchers, and patient advocates following a meeting at the University of Iowa.

Bill Field, a professor of occupational and environmental health at the UI, writes about the danger of radon, and why he believes the EPA shouldn't be allowed to drop the ball by eliminating funding to help states promote radon awareness.

Neuroscientist André Fenton will give a lecture titled “Erasing, Tracing, and Harnessing Memory” at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 10, in Shambaugh Auditorium in the University of Iowa Main Library.

CNN's Lizzie O'Leary takes to the road in the National Advanced Driving Simulator at the University of Iowa to demonstrate the hazards of distracted driving.