The University of Iowa introduces a more flexible and functional home page, one of the biggest evolutions since the university opened its first online front door nearly 20 years ago.

Researchers at the University of Iowa believe it's now more clear than ever that avoiding obesity and alcoholism could prevent liver cancer.

Thad Wilson, a family nurse practitioner who has served as a faculty member at the University of Missouri-Kansas City since 1995, has been named executive associate dean in the University of Iowa College of Nursing.

Stanton Berberich, program manager at the State Hygienic Laboratory at the University of Iowa, says the lack of consistent blood screen tracking systems across the nation hurt efforts to treat newborn illnesses.

As one of three UI law faculty members born and educated outside the United States, Maya Steinitz brings to her teaching a unique international perspective made richer by her innate inclination to idiosyncrasy.

Cheering the Iowa football team was a common refrain among the thousands who landed in Tampa for Outback Bowl festivities, but telling personal stories about the UI at events throughout the week strengthened the bond between fans and the university they support.

A story about Voyager 1 entering interstellar space quotes University of Iowa physics professor Don Gurnett, who says the distance the spacecraft has traveled over his lifetime is mind-boggling but "compared to the vast distances between stars and in the universe, it's just puny."

University of Iowa researcher Randall McEntaffer is one of 102 scientists and engineers named by President Barack Obama as recipients of a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

An "extraordinary" cache of early 20th century films will soon reside in UI Special Collections: “I wouldn’t say it’s the tomb of Tutankhamun, but you open the door and you see some marvelous things," says Rick Altman, UI emeritus professor of cinema.

UI professor Randall McEntaffer, who won a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists, says that the technology he’s working on today could make future NASA missions more affordable and successful toward the goal of observing astronomical objects.

The tone a governor takes in his or her "State of the State" address has an impact both on immediate stock prices of firms in that state and on their investment behavior in the future, according to UI associate professor Art Durnev.

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