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.

The University of Iowa School of Music will honor emerita faculty member Betty Bang Mather with Baroque for Betty: A Flute Extravaganza at 3 p.m. Saturday, April 14, in the Riverside Recital Hall. The event is free and open the public.

University staff and faculty are accomplishing great things every day. See who’s making news with awards, publications, promotion and tenure, and more.

Deidra Franzen Baker, the UI College of Education's 2012 Yager Educational Accomplishment Honor recipient, and education professor Bonnie Sunstein will present “Math in the Margins: Expanding the Five-Minute Universe with Geometry and Writing” at 3 p.m. Wednesday, April 11, in the Teacher Leader Center, N140 Lindquist Center.

President Barack Obama has appointed Christopher Merrill, director of the University of Iowa International Writing Program, to the National Council on the Humanities.

The Jonas Nurse Leaders Scholar Program aims to turn promising students like Emily Higdon into tomorrow's nursing program faculty, addressing a critical shortage.

Three faculty members in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences have been appointed as named professors and fellows.

Five faculty members in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences have been honored for their excellence in teaching and scholarship or creative work.

A University of Iowa student's essay about how the Internet and social media helped the Ponseti method become the gold standard for the treatment of clubfoot has won a national contest.

The University of Iowa Museum of Natural History has been chosen as a finalist for the Silos & Smokestacks National Heritage Area People’s Choice Site of the Year Golden Silo Award. Cast your vote by April 3 at the Silos & Smokestacks National Heritage Area website.