The University of Iowa Public Policy Center has received three grants totaling $17.2 million to fund automotive safety research and the development and implementation of a national education campaign to help drivers understand the safety systems in their vehicles.

Wilfrid Nixon, a civil engineer who studies winter road management at the University of Iowa, estimated that 20 percent of state, county, and local highway departments that plow snow have begun using beet juice or a similar product for road deicing over the last decade.

The Martin Luther King Jr. Research Symposium will highlight 11 College of Education student poster projects, and Philip Kutzko, a professor in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Department of Mathematics, will give the keynote address entitled “Becoming America: Dr. King’s Beloved Community,” Friday, Feb. 7.

UI professor Ingo Titze and colleagues studied the accuracy and effectiveness of voice voting, concluding that this type of vote is extremely unreliable and that even just one boisterous participant can distort the perceptions of a judge.

As heart disease continues to be one of the major causes of death in Iowa, UI Health Alliance has joined with a team of health-care officials throughout the state to offer affordable mobile heart screenings to detect heart disease and stroke.

The University of Iowa Department of History will hold a memorial service at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 4, for visiting assistant professor Jacob Dean Hall, 39, who died Jan. 29 at his home in Iowa City.

Watch out, infection. University of Iowa researchers have created a probe that can identify staph bacteria before symptoms appear. The probe is noninvasive and is expected to be cheaper and faster than current diagnostic techniques. Results published in the journal Nature Medicine.

A new study from the University of Iowa shows evidence that stock price movements are predictable in short windows, a finding that challenges conventional wisdom that stock prices moves randomly.

A new UI study found that low bone density affects the entire skeleton, including bones in the skull that house the organs for balance and hearing, meaning those already prone to fractures due to low bone density are also prone to falls.

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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded $3 million to the University of Iowa and 14 partner institutions to fund an innovative two-year project, "Humanities Without Walls." Faculty members who wish to take part in the collaborative are invited to apply for Obermann seed grants.

A spouse offering the "wrong kind" or "too much" support is more detrimental to a marriage than not offering enough support, according to new research by UI psychologists Rebecca Brock and Erika Lawrence.