Pamela Ries was recently named the new director of the UI College of Education's REACH (Realizing Educational and Career Hopes) Program, a two-year certificate program designed to serve individuals facing intellectual and learning challenges.

A survey conducted by the Public Policy Center at the University of Iowa shows 3 percent of children without medical insurance. The results come as policymakers prepare for changes to health programs with the Affordable Care Act, which takes effect next year.

The University of Iowa Summer Opera will present Gilbert and Sullivan’s "Iolanthe," a magical and hilarious operetta full of brilliantly witty dialogue and soaring melodies, complete with orchestra and some fantastical special effects. Performances will take place at 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, July 11-13, and 2 p.m. Sunday, July 14, at the Coralville Center for the Performing Arts.

The UI Department of Theatre Arts is staging performances of "No Fish in the House" in numerous Iowa communities throughout July. Director Paul Kalina, assistant professor in the theatre arts department, spent some time before the July 7 performance at Brucemore in Cedar Rapids talking about the play and the importance of taking the show on the road.

Futurists once predicted that Americans would someday work only 12 or 15 hours a week. University of Iowa historian Benjamin Hunnicutt calls those predictions the forgotten American dream.

Alice Schoonbroodt, assistant professor of economics at the University of Iowa, says birth rates typically decline during difficult economic times because potential parents are too uncertain about their own circumstances to want to add children.

A majority of Iowans enrolled by the state health insurance program IowaCare say they have significant or chronic health issues, according to a survey done by the University of Iowa's Public Policy Center. The findings come as the IowaCare program expires at the end of this year, replaced by the Iowa Health and Wellness Plan, which will provide broader insurance coverage.

Marilynne Robinson, Pulitzer Prize–winning author and faculty member in the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, will be awarded a 2012 National Humanities Medal by President Obama in a ceremony Wednesday, July 10, at the White House.

As the UI College of Education's Belin-Blank Center celebrates its 25th anniversary this July, center director and Sioux City native Susan Assouline shares her own serendipitous learning journey that brought her to the field of gifted education and talent development at the internationally renowned center.

UI professor and author Marilynne Robinson will receive the National Humanities Medal for 2012 in ceremonies at the White House next week.

A new company that creates interactive 3D anatomical models was founded in 2006 by UI faculty member Karim Malek.

At just past the midpoint of its current comprehensive fundraising campaign timeline, the UI has surpassed the total dollar amount achieved in its previous campaign