The Summer Health Professions Education Program celebrates 30 years of preparing students who are underrepresented in the health professions for careers in health and medicine. The program has introduced nearly 30,000 first- and second-year college students, including those at the UI, to careers in medicine, dentistry, and other health professions.

After leaving TV, a former Oprah producer and Tippie College of Business alumna wrote The Beautiful No, about her search for fulfillment. Now, Sheri Salata is heading back to Iowa City for a Sept 6 appearance at Prairie Lights Books. Read a Q&A with her on the Iowa Magazine website.

Mary Cohen, associate professor of music education at the University of Iowa, discusses how songwriting can be especially powerful for people behind bars.

One of Lilian Sanchez’s goals as a campaign staffer for Sen. Kamala Harris is to help the candidate connect with Latino voters in Iowa. Sanchez, a 2018 UI graduate, was the first in her family to graduate from college and the first Latina voted vice president of UI Student Government.

Jackson Pollock’s “Mural,” an 8-by-20-foot painting that the artist completed in 1943, has been on a continuous world tour since 2014. It’s traveled a lot of miles since leaving the UI campus just before the flood of 2008.

A University of Iowa study shows that parents can help their kids be safer drivers by having conversations with them about it.

Entrepreneurs from Africa who are attending the six-week Young African Leadership Initiative (YALI) at the University of Iowa this summer recently visited the Quad Cities to see two icons of America—the Mississippi River and John Deere.

A team of University of Iowa alumnae that includes Algonquin, Iowa, native Genevieve Goelz has received a $10,000 prize for a bra they designed as an engineering class project that provides breast cancer survivors both support and relief from lymphedema pain after a single mastectomy.

A study from the University of Iowa College of Public Health finds that people who may have a healthy weight according to the body mass index (BMI) may actually have obesity-related health issues, which could be revealed by considering the person's waist circumference.

A study from the University of Iowa College of Public Health finds that the amount of time Americans spend exercising is little changed over the last 10 years, which isn't positive because Americans weren't exercising enough 10 years ago.