Because few students understand how cell phones and other electronic devices are made and how they work, the University of Iowa Microfabrication Facility, part of the Optical Science and Technology Center, has established a course on the subject.

As the number of international students attending the University of Iowa continues to grow, officials are offering a new program to help students integrate to Iowa and the United States comfortably.

A $1.5 million gift from University of Iowa alumnus Norman E. Johnson and his wife, Barbara J. Johnson, of Naples, Fla. and Franklin, Tenn., will benefit two areas within UI Health Care—the Department of Otolaryngology in the Carver College of Medicine, and the new UI Children’s Hospital.

Voice votes, common in civic and political decision making at all levels, can be skewed by a single, loud voice, according to a study led by the University of Iowa. The researchers propose locating everyone within equal distance from the vote recorder or controlling for sound on voters’ microphones. Results appear in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

A prestigious award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) will help a University of Iowa engineering professor to create 3D-printed pancreatic endocrine tissues to effectively manage diabetes.

Small businesses in Iowa are less knowledgeable than larger businesses about the Affordable Care Act, according to a new study conducted by the UI's Public Policy Center, in collaboration with the Iowa Department of Public Health, the state Health Insurance Marketplace Interagency Workgroup on Health Care Reform, and the UI College of Public Health.

Keeping secrets from a loved one can put an emotional wedge in the relationship and change the way we communicate says Tamara Afifi, UI communication studies professor: "When we have a secret and mull it over, we develop stress and it makes our body sick."

With state funding all but certain, hopes are high for a new University of Iowa College of Pharmacy building—which is in the planning stages—to replace the current structure.

UI astronomy professor Steven Spangler says that having two new moons in the same calendar month twice in the same year, as we will in January and March 2014, is so rare he thought at first it couldn't happen at all.

Naturally 7 has risen to prominence while touring extensively with Michael Bublé. But make no mistake: This group has headliner power in its own right. The University of Iowa’s Hancher will present Naturally 7 on Friday, Feb. 7, at 7:30 p.m. at the Englert Theatre in Iowa City.

The University of Iowa's Carver College of Medicine hosted a Mini Medical School for girls in grades 6-8 to participate in a number of hands-on activities to give them an idea of what doctors, first responders, and researchers deal with on a daily basis.

UI Museum of Art Director Sean O’Harrow says Jackson Pollock's "Mural" represents an important place for Iowa in art history.