At UI's Van Allen Hall, tucked away in a metallic chamber wrapped in insulating tin foil is a tiny polarimeter—a detector set to measure and study gamma ray bursts, and a tool that puts research assistant Hannah Marlowe on the forefront of space research, collaborating with NASA.

Jerry Schnoor, co-director of the UI Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research, says it's not enough to adapt to the changing climate; we also need to adjust our behaviors to prevent even more changes.

The UI is addressing the cultural divide impeding growth in the number of minorities with doctorate degrees in STEM fields, establishing a new University Center of Exemplary Mentoring with a $1.2 million grant from the New York City-based Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

The University of Iowa Operator Performance Laboratory, in collaboration with NASA and others, is conducting test flights to help find better ways to design cockpits and training to avoid the common pilot errors revealed by post-crash or post-incident analysis.

The University of Iowa field hockey team received a special visit from surprise guests Wednesday, April 23 at Grant Field. These were not just any guests; they included the president and chief executive officer of the International Hockey Federation (FIH), field hockey's governing body.

The University of Iowa’s Hancher and Department of Religious Studies are collaborating to present Niyaz featuring Azam Ali on Thursday, May 8, at 7:30 p.m. at Old Brick. The concert is free and open to the public.

The University of Iowa College of Law’s patent moot court team took first place at the national finals of the American Intellectual Property Law Association’s Giles Sutherland Rich Memorial Patent Law Moot Court competition April 23-25 in Washington, D.C.

The University of Iowa women's basketball team had fun in 2013-14. The campaign featured 27 wins, equaling the second-highest total in program history, and 14 home wins, also equaling the second-most in school history.

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University of Iowa students, faculty, staff, and alumni received some of the institution’s highest honors Thursday. April 24, at the 97th annual Finkbine Dinner for Representative Student Leaders.

Christopher Newfield, one of the country’s most energetic analysts of higher education funding, will present a public lecture Monday, April 28, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. at the Iowa City Public Library. This event winds up the Obermann Center’s Designing the Future series while raising powerful questions about our own future.

During this Infertility Awareness Week, UI researchers Keli Steuber and Andy High say discussing the issue openly can help couples and their families: "Men, from what we can tell, choose not to talk about infertility. Usually the wife is the gatekeeper for the marriage," Steuber says.