Scientists and people of faith, and those who are both, can learn a lot from one another about the incredible universe we all live in.

Law school enrollment is declining nationwide, affecting the UI College of Law this fall: “Given the national trend, we knew it was coming, and our plan for responding to it was to maintain the high quality of the class rather than its size,” says Dean Gail Agrawal.

Clearly, being on the frontier of space research still excites Donald Gurnett, who’s been a professor at the UI since 1965 and helped announce the latest milestone in space exploration last week.

A new study led by Thomas Schnell, of the UI Operator Performance Laboratory, is investigating whether automation is making pilots lazy in the cockpit; researchers are testing their reaction times in an emergency.

George Weiner, M.D., director of the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at the UI, was a co-author of the American Association for Cancer Research’s third annual Cancer Progress Report, which illustrates how research, along with clinical insight, have improved prevention, detection, diagnosis, and treatment for cancer.

The University of Iowa is partnering with Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids for a research project that aims to gather wind data for research and teaching purposes at both colleges.

An unprecedented amount of new and flood replacement construction at the University of Iowa, coupled with public and private building projects, is expected to have a profound impact on the community.

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Interstellar space, scientists now know with certainty, is dense with particles, and the place is literally hissing: “It’s almost a pure tone—like middle C, but slightly varying, like your piano is not quite tuned right,” says UI physicist Donald Gurnett.

On Thursday, scientists declared that Voyager I had become the first probe to exit the solar system, a breathtaking achievement that NASA could only fantasize about back when it was launched in 1977.

The University of Iowa Department of Public Safety will test the Hawk Alert emergency notification system at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 18 as required by federal law.

The Academic Technologies Advisory Council will be accepting proposals for the Innovations in Teaching with Technology Awards Sept. 18 through Oct. 17.