University of Iowa space physicist Don Gurnett debunks the notion that the lack of air in space means there is no sound; space can make music, he has shown, if you know how to listen.

Chemistry and physics are central scientific disciplines that help us understand the "how" of almost everything. Two University of Iowa chemistry scholars share how concepts in these disciplines shape their understanding of the world.

The public is invited to attend several social and educational events Nov. 8 through 15 as part of the University of Iowa celebration of International Education Week 2013.

He’s certainly no stranger to the University of Iowa, but now Bill Theisen can call this place his home. Theisen, who served as the interim director of opera at the University of Iowa in 1998 and continued that relationship for the past 15 years, is now the full-time director of opera in the UI School of Music.

Before Mason Shepherd was born, his mother, Cindy, went in for her 20-week ultrasound where doctors discovered that her son had stopped growing. The Shepherds were transferred to UI Children’s Hospital for genetic testing, and Mason was diagnosed with Russell-Silver syndrome, a disorder characterized by slow growth before and after birth.

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A series of convincing scams is tricking UI email users into providing personal information to data thieves. The IT security office urges the campus to exercise caution and provides tips on how to avoid being scammed.

University of Iowa law professor Lea VanderVelde worked with a set of around 300 antebellum civil cases of slaves suing their masters for their freedom in the courts in St. Louis while writing her forthcoming book, "Redemption Songs: Courtroom Stories of Slavery."

The University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts will produce a new adaptation of Molière’s "The Imaginary Invalid" that will include new music and choreography from members of the artistic team. The production will open at 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 14, in the David Thayer Theatre of the UI Theatre Building.

Building urban wetlands could help to reduce nitrogen and phosphorous run off, UI geoscientist Arthur Bettis says: “It’s one prong of a multi-pronged approach to reducing the large nutrient load being exported from the upper Midwest.”

How should the Cold War be memorialized? This question forms the backbone of the Obermann Interdisciplinary Research Grant project of Sarah Kanouse in UI art and art history and Shiloh Kruper in geography at Georgetown University.

Making fat cells immortal might seem like a bad idea to most people, but for a team of University of Iowa scientists it was the ideal way to study how the interaction between bacteria and fat cells might contribute to diabetes.