Medical students participated in a grain bin rescue training exercise at the University of Iowa so they're more familiar with the kinds of injuries that can be associated with that kind of an accident.

The Rape Victim Advocacy Program at the University of Iowa is offering a Women’s Sexual Violence Support Group beginning Wednesday, June 18 and continuing until Wednesday, Aug. 6, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the RVAP offices, located at 332 S. Linn St., Suite 100 in Iowa City.

Participants in a week-long series of classes on agricultural and farming practices at the University of Iowa this week got an up close and personal view of a grain silo rescue in action Monday. A person can be buried head to toe in grain within 30 seconds, so knowing how to act fast to save lives is important for both farmers and rescue personnel.

To help adults and children stay safe while having fun this summer, the University of Iowa is offering a list of experts who can talk about everything from bike safety to preventing sunburn.

The University of Iowa hosts a grain silo rescue demonstration to promote greater safety in agricultural and farming. A professional will climb into a simulated silo filled with grain and demonstrate a potential real-life situation in which a person needs to be rescued from an avalanche of flowing grain. The simulation is Monday, June 9, at 5 p.m. at the UI College of Public Health.

The chemical attack, gunmen, and panicked spectators at an Iowa ballpark were part of a staged scenario, but the response was real—experts from across the state, including members of the State Hygienic Laboratory at the UI—used full-scale exercises as real life training this spring.

Professionals from across the state who serve the LGBTQ youth population, as well as homeless youth and those in foster care, attended Iowa’s first statewide Summit on LGBTQ Homeless and Out-of-Home Youth, which took place in the UI College of Education's Teacher Leader Center.

Dan McGehee, who studies driver safety at the University of Iowa, says Internet-connected cars could be a good thing, as long as automakers can figure out a way to keep people from fiddling with it while they drive.

The Rape Victim Advocacy Program at the University of Iowa is currently recruiting volunteer advocates to staff the crisis line and support survivors at the hospital or with law enforcement. The deadline to apply is May 26.

The University of Iowa today launched a new two-step phone verification tool to help protect University of Iowa employees from work-related identity theft.

The University of Iowa Department of Public Safety will extend Nite Ride service hours during finals week.

Five staff members from the State Hygienic Laboratory at the University of Iowa are participating in Project AWARE, a Watershed Awareness River Expedition that will offer its first interstate river cleanup when the annual event launches this summer on the Big Sioux River.