In this column, J. Stacey Klutts, clinical associate professor of pathology in the Carver College of Medicine, explains why vaccines — and masks — are so important, and why delta is different and more dangerous.

Gabriele Villarini, director of IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering at the University of Iowa, co-authored a commentary, published in the journal Nature Climate Change on the effects of climate change and human disturbance on stream flow around Earth.

A University of Iowa physicist is part of a research team that has won funding from the U.S. Department of Energy to continue to advance quantum science and technology. Michael Flatté, professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, is a collaborator on the research team that received $5.4 million in new funding from the DOE’s Office of Science. The funding supports researchers who are...

Caroline Stefanie Clay will be joining the faculty of the UI's Department of Theatre Arts in fall 2021 as lead acting professor of the MFA acting program. Clay has performed on Broadway in Little Foxes, Doubt, and other shows, with film and television credits including the role of Cece Colvin, The Matchmaker on Grey's Anatomy, as well as roles on Shameless, The Knick, Law & Order: SVU, House of...

Alfred L. Martin Jr., assistant professor of media studies, authored this essay about the history of Black gayness in television and how representation can signal acceptance and normalcy that can be important for Black queer boys and men.

Corinne Peek-Asa, a professor in the University of Iowa’s Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, discusses how as COVID-19 spread more readily through communities of color, an increase in traffic deaths was probably a result of the compounding of existing inequities.

Keith Mueller, director of the University of Iowa's Rural Policy Research Institute in the College of Public Health, discusses concerns over rural communities outside America's cities falling behind in the race to vaccinate against COVID-19.

Physicists led by the University of Iowa demonstrated through experiments how auroras – the famed northern and southern lights -- are created.

Since taking flight in 1977, the Voyager spacecraft continue to make important discoveries. Decades after launch, the twin spacecraft are revealing secrets of the interstellar medium: the tenuous material that fills the vast space between the stars. The news feature in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, features Donald Gurnett, professor emeritus in the...

An NPR analysis of county-level vaccination data from the CDC shows signs of an emerging rural-urban divide, especially among people who are 65 years old or older. Keith Mueller, director of the UI Rural Policy Research Institute, has been encouraging decision-makers to look beyond hospitals and chain pharmacies to get vaccines delivered to more rural communities.