Starting Jan. 1, 2013 all campus telephone users will need to dial 9 to get an outside line prior to dialing an off-campus number.

Five University of Iowa College of Education faculty members gave a glimpse into their ongoing research at the first University of Iowa College of Education’s Research Colloquium Nov. 13 featuring Faculty Research Award recipients.

Ronald McMullen, a University of Iowa visiting associate political science professor and ambassador, shares his thoughts on globalization in Iowa, also the topic of the next UI International Programs' World Canvass program Friday, Dec. 7. (Note: A paid subscription may be required.)

Shreya Ahuja and Emily Wechsler, 16-year-old high school students at The Hockaday School in Dallas, received an intensive two-week introduction to neuroscience at the University of Iowa last July. Melissa Duff, faculty member in the UI’s Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Neuroscience, hosted the students in her laboratory as part of this pilot program.

A study done by researchers at the University of Iowa predicts that tropical storms in the North Atlantic will become more intense in the future.

Don McLeese teaches classes for the new UI Master of Arts in Strategic Communication offered in downtown Des Moines and to distance learners via a virtual classroom with a focus on helping students stay afloat in a flood of information via Facebook, Twitter, and other online media.

Researchers at the University of Iowa have explained how infants learn by looking, and the crucial role these activities play in how infants gain knowledge. Their computer model of babies aged 6 weeks to one year shows how infants use looking to create knowledge and to sear that knowledge into memory. The model also explains how infants' looking and learning changes as they develop. Results appear...

Barbara Eckstein, a fall 2012 Obermann Fellow-in-Residence, discusses her interdisciplinary work in a Q & A on the early phases of her extensive research study of the Upper Mississippi River Basin as well as a digital, participatory People's Weather Map she is helping to build.

Buildings and statues constructed of limestone can be protected from many of the effects of environmental degradation by applying a thin, single layer of a water-resistant coating, according to University of Iowa researchers and their Cardiff (U.K.) University colleagues. The paper is published in "Scientific Reports," a new online, open access journal from the publishers of "Nature."

The complete work of one of the University of Iowa’s famous alumni has found its home in the University of Iowa Special Collections and University Archives.

Teachers from more than seven Iowa communities are converging on Iowa City this weekend to participate in a three-day Interdisciplinary Flood Institute organized by the University of Iowa College of Education as part of a larger initiative, the Living with Floods project.

Leaders with University of Iowa Health Care have appointed Nitin Karandikar, M.D., Ph.D., as the new head of the Department of Pathology at the UI Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine. Karandikar will also hold the Dr. Richard G. Lynch Chair in Experimental Pathology.