Scientists in Iowa who study climate change, including the UI's Jerry Schnoor, say that Iowa is being buffeted by the effects of climate change, including hotter temperatures, droughts, and floods, and other extreme weather that could affect agricultural and livestock practices.

UI College of Education professor Ernest Pascarella's and alumnae Tricia Seifert's research finds students' critical-thinking skills grow when they encounter diversity, and white students benefit the most from contact with people from diverse backgrounds and taking diversity courses.

Keith Mueller, health management and policy professor in the UI College of Public Health, talks about the state of rural health care in Iowa and how it will change under the federal Affordable Care Act on Iowa Public Radio's "River to River" program.

Susan Assouline has been named the new director of the University of Iowa College of Education's Connie Belin & Jacqueline N. Blank International Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development, effective Jan. 1, 2013.

Nancy Andreasen, M.D., Ph.D., University of Iowa professor of psychiatry, who holds the Andrew H. Woods Chair of Psychiatry, has received the 2012 National Alliance of Mental Illness (NAMI) Scientific Research Award, honoring her contributions to the understanding of schizophrenia.

Tara Smith of the UI College of Public Health is quoted in a story on research examining pigs as possible carriers of the deadly Ebola virus. Smith, who was not involved in the study, is an expert on emerging infectious diseases.

A University of Iowa study says men are less likely to be seen as depressed—even when they are. James B. Potash, MD, study editor and UI professor of psychiatry, says there has been relatively little focus on education and depression in men.

Ed Folsom, 65, is a University of Iowa faculty member who is widely regarded as a leading Walt Whitman scholar worldwide. (Note: A paid subscription may be required.)

A new study published Nov. 15 in the New England Journal of Medicine finds that patients who have a cardiac arrest in the hospital today are more likely to survive and to avoid neurological disability than they were 10 years ago.

More than 300 students from eastern Iowa and western Illinois attended the 16th annual UI College of Education's International Day for Human Rights Nov. 6. This year’s event focused on the “Human Right to Political Participation.” International Day is designed to educate students on local and global human rights issues.

NASA announced in a ceremony Friday that the recently launched mission studying the Van Allen Probes was renamed to honor the late James Van Allen, the head of the physics department at the University of Iowa who discovered the radiation belts encircling Earth in 1958.

The Mill in downtown Iowa City plays host to the University of Iowa School of Music’s jazz series, which features student ensembles and collaborations with professors from the jazz program. Each installment features one or two particular groups focusing on a style or sub-genre of jazz.