Adam Keune, Alec Whitters, and Ben O'Connor co-founded the new Coralville-based startup, Higher Learning Technologies, located in the UI's Oakdale Research Park.

An anonymous person paid the bill and wrote a note of thanks to members of the UI AirCare team who were dining at a restaurant after attending a memorial service for three members of the Mercy Air Medical Team killed in a medical helicopter crash.

A new study by UI researcher Alissa Whitmore, a doctoral candidate in archaeology, shows that items lost down the drains of bathhouses during the Roman Empire are evidence that these spaces served as social centers where people snacked on finger food and did needlework, among other activities.

University of Iowa wellness programs cost about $120 per employee and about $15 per student annually, an investment officials say has paid off in fewer sick days, lower insurance costs, and some reduced harmful behaviors among students.

Philip Polgreen, an epidemiologist at the University of Iowa, says that while new social media and crowdsourcing tools make it easier to track one of the worst flu seasons in a long time, such tools also have their limits and are timely supplements to traditional surveillance.

Hualing Nieh and her late husband, Paul Engle, founded the University of Iowa International Writing Program in 1967. IWP has since hosted more than 1,000 writers from 120 countries and regions. Nieh and IWP are the subject of a new documentary, One Tree: Three Lives.

Mary C. Noonan, associate professor of sociology at the University of Iowa and co-author of the recent study "The Hard Truth About Telecommuting," shares insights about the impact of telecommuting on family time and employee productivity.

Research by University of Iowa economist John Solow suggests diversity efforts must come from the ground up.

Etiquette dinners help law and MBA students at the University of Iowa learn to eat without offense.

Roberto Ampuero, a UI assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese who is on leave to serve as the Chilean ambassador to Mexico, is also a best-selling novelist and the creator of Cayetano Brulé, one of Spanish-language crime fiction's most traveled modern private eyes.