“As access to maternal and newborn care remains limited in many communities, we are seeing more complex pregnancies and babies who need our advanced neonatal services,” said Denise Jamieson, UI vice president for medical affairs.

Iowa leads the nation in the percentage of energy produced by wind. Scott Spak, UI associate professor in the school of planning and public affairs, was interviewed on Iowa Public Radio's "River to River", on the future of renewable energy policy.

Around a year ago, the UI Scanlan Center for School Mental Health started offering eating disorder services to Iowa school districts and their family. Taylor Ford, assistant director of Clinical Services and Crisis Response, says interest is only growing.

The Van Allen belts were discovered in 1958 by UI physicist James Van Allen and his team using data from the first U.S. satellite, Explorer 1, revealing two donut-shaped zones of energetic, charged particles (protons and electrons) trapped by Earth's magnetic field, a major breakthrough that highlighted the dangers of radiation for satellites and astronauts and explained phenomena like auroras.

University of Iowa professor Shawn Datchuk discusses how cursive is making a comeback with young students.

When Tennessee Williams was a student at the University of Iowa in the late 1930s, still referring to himself by his birth name, Tom Williams, he completed a rarely-heard gothic sketch for radio called “The Strangers.” Williams’ play appears this week in The Strand Magazine, which has previously published little-known works by Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner and John Steinbeck.

Business Insurance magazine has ranked the UI Tippie College of Business as having the nation’s third-largest risk management and insurance undergraduate program in its 2025 survey. The program, now in its third year, enrolled 350 undergraduate students as of October 2025. Jim Lewis, director of Tippie’s Vaughan Institute of Risk Management and Insurance, was quoted

UI business analytics professor Jeff Ohlmann is studying crowdshipping, where customers — who are not store employees — would be asked to deliver merchandise ordered online in exchange for a gift card or other incentive. He says they’d first need to be registered and screened.

UI political science professor Dr. Sara McLaughlin Mitchell, an expert on international conflict and cooperation, appeared on the station's Talking History podcast.

Dr. David Dickens, a pediatric oncologist and director of pediatric cancer services at the UIHC Stead Family Children’s Hospital, was interviewed about the Hawkeye Wave and Kid Captains program. The beloved football traditions renew moral for pediatric teams and families.