Alumnus Don Nelson will be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on Sept. 7. Nelson, 72, participated in the University of Iowa Spring 2012 commencement ceremony—five decades after leaving campus.

Karla McGregor, a University of Iowa professor of communication sciences and disorders, comments on "brain breaks," opportunities for students to temporarily step away from class work and get active so they can return with greater energy and focus.

A team from the University of Iowa Museum of Natural History recently uncovered the bones of a second mammoth at a site in rural Mahaska County.

Eggs from the pig whipworm are being tested as a treatment for Crohn's disease, irritable bowel syndrome, multiple sclerosis and other forms of autoimmune disease. The concept was developed at the University of Iowa.

The University of Iowa Research Foundation created the 2012 ICE Commercialization Gap Fund. The fund will help support critical research that could potentially lead to the creation of companies or licensing of technologies for the university.

University of Iowa researchers have found that self-awareness is a product of a patchwork of pathways in the brain. The research challenges an accepted theory that three regions in the brain are critical in self-awareness.

Tim Hagle, a University of Iowa associate professor of political science, comments on national political conventions. Hagle says there are benefits to having them, even if the outcome of the nominating process is a foregone conclusion.

University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics has a strong and growing adult Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) program. ECMO is a prolonged heart-lung bypass for critically ill patients with severe, but reversible, respiratory failure or cardiac disease.

Craig Kletzing, University of Iowa professor of astronomy, talks about how UI researchers were involved with a recent NASA mission. David Perlmutter, director of the UI School of Journalism and Mass Communication, discusses a recent trip to Turkey.

Christopher Merrill, director of the University of Iowa International Writing Program (IWP), discusses his latest book as well as IWP. Merrill's book, The Tree of Doves: Ceremony, Expedition, War, explores the nature of terror.