The East Central Iowa Council of Governments invites public comment on a draft Johnson County Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan through Dec. 31.

Tom Rocklin, UI vice president for student life, writes about the many ways the UI fosters student success in the 2013 UI Division of Student Life Annual Report welcome message with this year's theme focusing on leadership development, multiculturalism, and safety and health.

Dan McGehee, human factors and vehicle safety researcher, writes about new University of Iowa research on teens and distracted driving, which shows that teen passengers may be a more lethal form of distraction than cell phones.

The University of Iowa is reaching out to students whose families were affected by the severe weather that rolled across the Midwest this past weekend, destroying homes, killing at least six people and causing dozens of injuries.

On Nov. 17, the University of Iowa Housing and Dining staff received a report from a student that on Nov. 9 the student was sexually assaulted at an off-campus fraternity house.

Researchers at the University of Iowa and engineers at Rockwell Collins are working on new technology to keep pilots and crew safe in low visibility situations.

On Nov. 13, the University of Iowa Housing and Dining received a report from a student that on Oct. 18, she was assaulted in a vehicle in a university parking lot by a male with the intent to commit sexual assault.

Ann Campbell, UI associate professor of management sciences, looks at the challenges of relief transportation to isolated, devastated places like the Philippines.

The National Advanced Driving Simulator at the University of Iowa has been selected to receive a University Transportation Center grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation Research and Innovative Technology Administration.

Typhoon Haiyan’s trail of destruction in the Philippines last weekend is drawing attention to the difficulty of providing relief services in a place where roads, ports, and airports are all but destroyed. A UI researcher works to find more efficient methods for governments, agencies, NGOs, and businesses to transport relief supplies to disaster areas.

A steam leak triggered a fire alarm in the University of Iowa Chemistry Building, 251 N. Capitol St., shortly after 2 p.m. Wednesday, but no fire, damage or injuries were reported.

The University of Iowa Obermann Center for Advanced Studies will host an Obermann Afternoons Talk, “Integrating Public Health with Engineering to Improve Teen Driving Safety,” Wednesday, Nov. 13, at 4 p.m. in the Obermann Center.