Six-year-old Stella Turnbull has spinal muscular atrophy, a condition that significantly weakens all of her muscles. When she was diagnosed at 1 month of age, her doctors didn't expect her to live. Her parents turned to UI Children's Hospital, where doctors created the proper treatment regimen.

Voyager 1 didn’t get to interstellar space all on its own. The University of Iowa has been involved in the historic mission from the beginning, building a key instrument for the spacecraft that has produced many seminal discoveries on its 36-year journey—and counting.

University of Iowa space physicist Don Gurnett says there is solid evidence that NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has become the first manmade object to reach interstellar space, more than 11 billion miles distant and 36 years after it was launched. Gurnett is principal investigator for the Voyager 1 Plasma Wave Instrument.

University of Iowa Professor of Physics and Astronomy Don Gurnett and research scientist Bill Kurth will present a free, public lecture on NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft and its historic encounter with interstellar space at 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 16, in Lecture Room 1 of Van Allen Hall on the UI campus.

A study by University of Iowa psychiatry professor Nancy Andreasen uses brain scans to document how schizophrenia impacts brain tissue as well as the effects of anti-psychotic drugs on those who have relapses.

Distinguished international communication scholar Chin-Chuan Lee will give two public sessions on the University of Iowa campus Sept. 18 and 19, both free and open to the public.

The University of Iowa Center for New Music, housed within the UI School of Music, will present a free concert by violinst Wolfgang David and Center for New Music director and UI piano faculty member David Gompper at 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 22, in the Senate Chamber of Old Capitol.

A recently launched student record system that was custom built by software engineers in Information Technology Services got a good workout in the first week of classes, and is performing extremely well. Fall of 2013 marked the first full-blown start-of-semester experience for the fully implemented system.

Several University of Iowa faculty are available to the media to discuss the economic impacts of the 2008 financial crisis, five years later.

Building on the success of its first high-performance computing (HPC) cluster, the UI is now building a second “supercomputer” that will be available to researchers early next year. The Board of Regents, State of Iowa on Wednesday approved the purchase of the new system, which will significantly boost the university’s HPC capacity from 3,700 to 6,132 processor cores.

Priya Pennathur, assistant professor of mechanical and industrial engineering, has received $671,951 for a three-year research project from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, to understand and model how health care providers create, use, and transform health information in their work.

UI sociologist Michael Sauder participates in a discussion about the history of higher education, including controversies surrounding college rankings at the turn of the 20th century.