Teachers from more than seven Iowa communities are converging on Iowa City this weekend to participate in a three-day Interdisciplinary Flood Institute organized by the University of Iowa College of Education as part of a larger initiative, the Living with Floods project.

Lee Seedorff, the senior associate director of the University of Iowa's International Student and Scholar Services in UI International Programs shares how she and her colleagues communicate with the more than 3,500 international students and scholars even before they arrive on campus.

Caregivers of elderly parents with dementia may have to be wary of their loved ones' antipsychotic drugs. A new study involving UI researchers found that four commonly prescribed medicines are unsafe and ineffective for older adults.

Eli Perencevich, a professor and infectious-disease doctor with UI Health Care, comments on infections caused by deadly antibiotic-resistant "superbugs." He says, "We are entering the post-antibiotic era; that's a very big problem."

A group of students on the UI campus is raising both funds and awareness for breast cancer research through a creative campaign launched last year in honor of UI student Corey Collins' mother, who died of breast cancer.

Approximately $8 million has been obligated from the federal government to the University of Iowa for the construction of a removable flood wall around the Iowa Advanced Technology Laboratories, officials announced Tuesday.

The Iowa City Press-Citizen is currently seeking nominations for the 2013 Ten to Watch list. Many University of Iowa faculty and staff have appeared on past lists. (Note: A paid subscription may be required.)

Long before she made a career of seeking out and scaling the world’s most unreachable places, about the only thing University of Iowa communications alumna Brittany Griffith was climbing was the Jefferson Street hill on the UI campus.

Enrollment in UI’s College of Engineering has skyrocketed in recent years, growing 66 percent in the past decade, with the majority of that growth occurring in the past five years. (Note: A paid subscription may be required.)

Scientists in Iowa who study climate change, including the UI's Jerry Schnoor, say that Iowa is being buffeted by the effects of climate change, including hotter temperatures, droughts, and floods, and other extreme weather that could affect agricultural and livestock practices.