As Mitt Romney visits the state, UI associate professor of political science Tim Hagle comments on Iowa and other swing states in the 2012 presidential election.

Associate professor of marketing John Murry talks about how businesses market to mothers and those who love them on Mother's Day.

A statewide mass destruction drill took place on the University of Iowa campus. The drill simulated a chemical attack at Carver-Hawkeye Arena. UI Hospitals and Clinics conducts full-scale emergency exercises like this twice a year.

The University of Iowa Environmental Health Sciences Research Center, based in the College of Public Health, was awarded a five-year $7.9 million grant to help support research of rural health issues.

Greater Des Moines Partnership CEO Jay Byers, an alumnus of the UI Law School, is pursuing a five-year plan ranging from educating workers “cradle through career,” to keeping Iowans healthy, to developing more hiking and biking trails, to creating more jobs.

Law alumnus James Carney, a member of the University of Iowa Foundation board of directors, says the foundation raises money with integrity, honesty, effectiveness, and transparency.

The University of Iowa is developing programs to help students from minority groups graduate.

Herbert Hethcote, professor emeritus from the University of Iowa and a specialist in mathematical modeling of infectious disease spread, says whooping cough outbreaks oscillate in three-to-five year cycles.

UI associate professor Kembrew McLeod says early rap and hip hop albums like the Beasties' Paul's Boutique are "ticking time bombs" for intellectual property lawsuits because of their heavy sampling.

Tim Hagle, University of Iowa associate professor of political science, comments on President Obama's support of same-sex marriage and its political implications in an election year.