UI Health Care has started handing out the iPhone 4S, which will eventually replace pagers. The transition began more than a year ago, with about 65 phones. That number has since grown to 1,500 and may reach 2,000 when everything is said and done.

Michaela Inman had just made a competitive gymnastics team. She was spending more time in the gym and running frequently. So when she began complaining of pain in her right ankle in May 2011, Michaela’s parents and local pediatrician thought it was nothing more than a sprain.

The College of Dentistry at the University of Iowa has been awarded a $1.6 million federal grant to operate a dentist-scientist training program. The program, run by dentistry professor Christopher Squier, has been funded continuously since 1985.

The 2013-14 season of International Programs’ WorldCanvass series begins with a program focused on human rights and the arts. The live event takes place on Friday, Sept. 20, from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Senate Chamber of the Old Capitol Museum.

The Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development at the University of Iowa has named two faculty to the newly created Administrative Research Fellows Program. The two chosen are Meenakshi Gigi Durham, professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and Thomas Scholz, a doctor and pediatrics professor in the Carver College of Medicine.

UI physiologist Gary Pierce has developed a new technique to measure a person's heart health with the help of their finger's pulse, which is easier to record and also works better with obese patients, whose femoral pulse can be difficult to obtain reliably.

UI vice president for research Dan Reed wants to launch IT boot camps this year to help train Iowans in information technology and address shortages in the IT field.

When you think of map-makers, you probably don't picture English professors, philosophers, or art historians. But more and more humanities scholars, especially at the University of Iowa, are using geographic information system (GIS) technology to create digital maps that answer exciting new questions and engage the public.

Decades ago, experts predicted we would all be working just 14 to 15 hours a week by now, and would have so much free time we wouldn’t even know what to do with ourselves. UI historian Benjamin Hunnicutt calls the shorter workweek the “forgotten American dream."

As the number of student veterans at the University of Iowa continues to grow, President Sally Mason said Tuesday the university is committed to expanding opportunities on campus for this diverse group.

The University of Iowa Center for Human Rights will host a special forum on the conflict in Syria titled "Intervention in Syria: Law, Ethics, and Policy" from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, Sept.11, in Conference Room 2520D of the University Capitol Centre.

UI engineering Professor Ching-Long Lin received a five-year, $3.2 million grant in August from the National Institutes of Health to conduct analysis using a 3-D lung model to predict lung disease in both an individual and a large population range.