For many students, spring break means sun bathing and spending time with friends. For 15 students at the UI, this spring break will mean rolling up their sleeves and making a difference through a public health trip where they will work with people with HIV and AIDS.

UI psychiatrist Jess Fiedorowicz, M.D., Ph.D., comments on new finding that psychosocial distress in older individuals appears to increase risk of stroke death.

The University of Iowa has become the nation's first public university to include optional questions about sexual orientation and gender identity on its admission application.

Tim Hagle, University of Iowa associate professor of political science, comments on right-to-work laws. Michigan recently became the 24th right-to-work state in the country. Iowa has had right-to-work status for 65 years.

UI science education professor Brian Hand discusses the importance of the Science Writing Heuristic, an approach that uses language and argumentation to teach science as part of a story on literacy instruction crossing disciplines. (Note: A paid subscription is required.)

Infant Noelle Ames is thriving at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at UI Hospitals and Clinics even though her mom's water broke just 20 weeks weeks into her pregnancy. Mom Alicia spent months under the care of doctors and made it to 32-week mark without going into labor.

A conservation and research effort under way at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, a project between the UI Museum of Art and the Getty, is helping to debunk the idea that Jackson Pollock's masterpiece Mural was created in a single setting. (Note: A paid subscription is required.)

In this feature article from Iowa Alumni Magazine's December 2012 theme issue, UI alumni and faculty offer practical advice on how to find happiness at work.

Twin spacecraft have captured the clearest sounds yet from Earth’s radiation belts—and they mimic the chirping of birds. UI physicist Craig Kletzing played a recording of these high-pitched radio waves at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco.

Oprah Winfrey's magic touch is about to turn a former waitress from Brooklyn who is an alumnus of the UI Writers' Workshop, into one of the most famous writers in the country. Winfrey chose Ayana Mathis' first novel, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, for her Book Club 2.0.