Sandra Daack-Hirsch, a clinical nurse specialist and assistant professor in the University of Iowa College of Nursing, has made it her mission to find out why fewer women are participating in pre-natal screening.

Andy Grewal is now officially a friend of the United States Supreme Court. Grewal, a professor at the University of Iowa College of Law, filed an amicus curiae brief for a case that will be heard by the Supreme Court this fall.

As part of the governor’s statewide STEM initiative, leaders from four Iowa school districts visited campus through a partnership with the UI College of Education’s Education Technology Center and UI Office of the Provost to help Iowa educators transform their classrooms into technology rich, active learning environments.

In 2009, 11-year-old Alex Kirby learned he had a rare genetic kidney disorder. After his transplant, doctors determined his sister, Molly, had the same disorder and would also need a transplant.

With help from the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, three scholars have translated a complex account of Cortés' conquest of Mexico, offering a local account of events often viewed through European and contemporary eyes.

For 8 years, Bryan Brown attended speech therapy classes and while he still stutters, he not only has better control of it, but says it's made him who he is today; a speech pathologist studying at the University of Iowa, a world famous center for stuttering research.

Mothers who have one-on-one sessions with nurses after having a premature birth are found to decrease their postpartum symptoms, according to a UI study.

We all find ways to kill time while in waiting rooms. In the case of music faculty Anthony Arnone, why not play some cello while waiting for his car to be serviced? Positive reactions inspired Arnone to start a new project, "Bach to Work." He visited several public spaces this fall, providing the beauty of art in unexpected places.

Along with Hancher, the UI’s School of Music started construction recently. Both are major flood recovery projects on campus that are expected to be completed in 2016.

Several University of Iowa groups are working with the City of Iowa City to organize an Iowa River Cleanup project on Saturday, Oct. 12, from 9 a.m. to noon. Volunteers, age 18 or over, are invited to help pick up trash along the banks of the Iowa River.

Carl Klaus, founder of the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program and professor emeritus, will read from "A Self Made of Words" at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 9, in a free reading at Prairie Lights Books in downtown Iowa City. The reading also will be streamed live on the UI Writing University website.

The University of Iowa International Writing Program, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and Prairie Lights Books will host a reading to commemorate the life and works of Irish poet Seamus Heaney, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 8, in Room 100 of Phillips Hall on the UI campus.