UI College of Education professor Ernest Pascarella's and alumnae Tricia Seifert's research finds students' critical-thinking skills grow when they encounter diversity, and white students benefit the most from contact with people from diverse backgrounds and taking diversity courses.

Keith Mueller, health management and policy professor in the UI College of Public Health, talks about the state of rural health care in Iowa and how it will change under the federal Affordable Care Act on Iowa Public Radio's "River to River" program.

The number of international students at the University of Iowa hit an all-time high this fall, and the increase from last year was more than double the national rate. (Note: A paid subscription may be required.)

University of Iowa freshman Andy Topping makes "bracelets with a purpose." The pre-business major created an online business that makes bracelets out of parachute chord, both for style and survival.

Tara Smith of the UI College of Public Health is quoted in a story on research examining pigs as possible carriers of the deadly Ebola virus. Smith, who was not involved in the study, is an expert on emerging infectious diseases.

A University of Iowa study says men are less likely to be seen as depressed—even when they are. James B. Potash, MD, study editor and UI professor of psychiatry, says there has been relatively little focus on education and depression in men.

Ed Folsom, 65, is a University of Iowa faculty member who is widely regarded as a leading Walt Whitman scholar worldwide. (Note: A paid subscription may be required.)

The University of Iowa is seeing growing international student enrollment, especially from Chinese students. Five years ago the UI welcomed around 400 new international undergraduates; this fall that number jumped to well over 2,000.

NASA announced in a ceremony Friday that the recently launched mission studying the Van Allen Probes was renamed to honor the late James Van Allen, the head of the physics department at the University of Iowa who discovered the radiation belts encircling Earth in 1958.

Thomas Wassink, UI professor of psychiatry and co-director of the UI Children's Hospital Autism Center, discusses new findings about illness in pregnancy and autism and explains progress being made in understanding the genetics of autism.