The University of Iowa is one of five higher education institutions partnering to create the Tanager Place Research Center. The goal is to pool expertise to help troubled children and their families through research projects that will impact policy and practice.

University of Iowa astronomer and experiment principal investigator Craig Kletzing jokes that his wife calls the chirps and whoops captured by one of NASA's two recently launched Radiation Belt Storm Probes spacecraft "alien birds."

Judicial review—the courts' power to strike down laws—is increasingly criticized in the United States, but promoted abroad. A UI College of Law conference will look at how one of America’s most prominent legal exports has become so controversial at home.

UI researchers find that total knee replacement surgeries have more than doubled in 20 years. The study, published Sept. 26 in the Journal of the American Medical Association, suggests the growth is driven by both the increase in the number of older Americans and increased demand among older adults for total knee replacements.

University of Iowa College of Public Health Dean Susan Curry comments on the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force’s recommendation that clinicians screen all adults 18 and older for alcohol misuse and provide individuals engaged in risky drinking with counseling interventions.

Geoff Dyer, a visiting faculty member in the University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program, will present a free reading at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 3, in the Englert Theater in downtown Iowa City. A reception will follow.

Thanks to expertise in the University of Iowa College of Education's new doctoral program in Couple and Family Therapy, the UI is one of five institutions partnering to create the Tanager Place Research Center that will help children and families with mental health care support.

University of Iowa Muslim students, a UI expert, and members of the local community share mixed views on the now-infamous anti-Muslim video that sparked uprisings in the Muslim world.

University of Iowa political science professor Tim Hagle says that northwest congressional race candidates Steve King and Christie Vilsack will need to sway independent voters to win the district.

Students, faculty, and alumni of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop will perform “unstageable plays of daring and poetry” at the inaugural Iowa City Poets Theater at 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 29, in Lower City Park's Riverside Theater.

The groundbreaking ceremony for the new Hancher Auditorium has been postponed, but University of Iowa officials say the project to replace UI’s main performing arts center destroyed in the 2008 flood still is on track.

Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Iowa and Mayo Clinic have received a five-year, $11.5 million grant renewal from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to continue the Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) for lymphoma research.