The University of Iowa College of Education is collaborating with K–12 schools in a new program to encourage gifted students in rural areas of Iowa to take rigorous STEM classes and pursue careers in those fields.

Research by Tom Gruca, professor of marketing in the Tippie College of Business, finds that traveling doctors can help reduce the health care provider shortage in rural areas, but it comes with tradeoffs for the doctors in longer days and longer drives.

Participants in the University of Iowa's summer youth entrepreneur camp for middle school students sold the products they made during the camp at the Iowa City farmer's market.

The 25 entrepreneurs participating in the Young African Leadership Initiative (YALI) at the the University of Iowa this summer learned more about global trade and the agricultural economy while touring Deere & Co.'s harvester manufacturing facility and corporate headquarters in the Quad Cities.

Kristin Flanary , who oversees the Iowa Online AP Academy at the College of Education’s Belin-Blank Center, recently weighed in on elite prep schools that are doing away with Advanced Placement courses. Flanary says that in Iowa, the courses are still the best option for challenging gifted and talented students.

The University of Iowa is leading a $1 million federal grant to gather and share water quality information from five states along the Upper Mississippi River. Iowa State University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will also take part in the three-year National Science Foundation big data program.

University of Iowa IIHR Hydroscience and Engineering research engineer Chris Jones was interviewed on NPR's On Point news program as part of a story that focused on water quality issues in Iowa. Jones is part of a research team that recently published an article about nitrate pollution in Iowa.

So many serious writers are now fixing their sights on television that the University of Iowa, home of the venerable Iowa Writers’ Workshop, has launched a postgraduate TV-writing fellowship and will begin a workshop focused on the specialization this fall.

UI alumni and Bettendorf, Iowa, natives Scott Beck and Bryan Woods are finalizing a deal with Twentieth Century Fox to adapt Stephen King’s “The Boogeyman” for a new horror film. Beck and Woods’s script for this year’s A Quiet Place, co-written by director and co-star John Krasinski, made $328 million.

University of Iowa alumnus and Cedar Rapids native Jeff Tomsic's feature film directing debut, Tag, opened third at the box office, raking in $14.6 million—more than half of its $28 million price tag—in its first weekend.