The University of Iowa is creating regional economic development engagement centers to work with local businesses, economic development groups, and community colleges to solve tangible and specific economic problems and to address specific skills shortages.

An all-day workshop titled "Global leadership starts here: A U.S.-China student workshop on the undergraduate experience at Iowa" will be held Saturday, Feb. 22, at the Adler Journalism Building on the University of Iowa campus.

As winter wears on, our bodies are able to offset some of the chill: "There are certain physiological responses to combat cold, and those responses become perfected, and we call that cold weather acclimatization," says G. Edgar Folk Jr., a UI professor emeritus of physiology.

In honor of Valentine's Day, University of Iowa Libraries staff invites everyone to go on a blind date with a book, search for love in the Iowa Digital Library, and create a pop-up Valentine card.

Two lanes of Madison Street near the Iowa Memorial Union, in the one-block area south of Jefferson Street and north of Iowa Avenue, will be closed from February 17 to March 27. One lane of traffic in each direction will remain open at all times.

University staff, faculty, students, and alumni are accomplishing great things every day. See who's making news with awards, publications, promotion and tenure, and more.

Today, University of Iowa's Dance Marathon marks its 20th anniversary of helping fund pediatric cancer research at the UI Carver College of Medicine and providing programs for patients and their families at UI Children's Hospital. Those affected most talk about the impact of improving cancer research.

All works choreographed by faculty members and graduate students in the University of Iowa Department of Dance will come to life on stage at the Faculty/Graduate Concert at 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, Feb. 13-15, in Space Place Theater, 101 North Hall, on the UI campus.

A genetic mechanism that controls the production of a large spike-like protein on the surface of Staphylococcus aureus (staph) bacteria alters the ability of the bacteria to form clumps and to cause disease, according to a new University of Iowa study.

Ingo Titze, an authority on voice and speech, and fellow UI researchers found that except under unrealistic controlled circumstances, voice votes are useless: "The vote is very, very biased toward loud voices...soft voices are like no voices in a vote."

UI students last night premiered Makeover the newest partnership between writer and lyricist Darrah Cloud and composer Kim Sherman, who are artists-in-residence in the UI Department of Theatre Arts. (Note: A paid subscription may be required.)

A new mathematical model developed by researchers from the University of Iowa challenges the generally held belief that stock prices cannot be predicted; authors of a new study say that that there is a window of predictability once a stock price escapes the confines of the bid-ask spread.