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.

Ed Wasserman, University of Iowa psychology professor, discusses animal cognition, human invention, and intelligent design.

Christopher Merrill, director of the University of Iowa International Writing Program, talks with Ben Kieffer about the program. Thirty-one writers from 28 countries will participate in this fall's residency program.

Law School faculty member Patrick Bauer mines the lyrics of Bob Dylan for lessons.

The University of Iowa is among the best places in the country for people who like the outdoors, according to a new list called "Outdoor University." The list comes from Outside Magazine, which assembled "the top 25 colleges for Outside readers."

Research at the UI identified the brain's "gullibility center."

Alumna Gloria Zmolek, who teaches at Linn-Mar, has been honored with the 2012 Outstanding Secondary Art Educator of the Year Award by the Art Educators of Iowa.

Psychological concepts and the theories of evolutionary development of self-awareness have been called into question by research with "Patient R" at the UI.