UI historian Colin Gordon, senior research consultant at the Iowa Policy Project, documents that Bill Clinton was right in asserting that, historically, Democrats have created more jobs than the GOP.

American Studies alumnus and "Rock and Roll in America" teacher Steven Horowitz laments the re-release of albums Richie Havens disowned.

Leo Eko of the UI School of Journalism and Mass Communication writes about freedom of speech in the wake of protests and murders provoked by an amateurish anti-Muslim video.

The Rural Policy Research Institute Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis has been awarded two new cooperative agreements by the Office of Rural Health Policy in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

A total of $100,000 is available through the Innovations in Teaching with Technology Award program, which supports innovative instructional technology projects that impact student success and retention.

The University of Iowa Center for New Music (CNM) will present a free concert at 7:30 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 30, in the Riverside Recital Hall, featuring the CNM Ensemble with guest composer Stephen David Beck and guest conductor Bert Van Herck.

Only 20 percent of smokers develop COPD, and new University of Iowa research has revealed a genetic explanation.

A new University of Iowa research project will study how new technologies affect elderly drivers.

University of Iowa political scientist Timothy Hagle is interviewed about election prospects in the new southeast Iowa district.

The University of Iowa on Friday will showcase the founding of a high-throughput screening facility, capable of performing rapid-fire experiments involving large amounts of data and the first of its kind for academic use in the state. The instrument, funded by the federal National Institutes of Health, is expected to spawn research collaboration campus wide.

September is Pain Awareness Month and University of Iowa Health Care is offering a free, public seminar on pain management from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Monday, Sept. 24, in the Melrose Conference Room at UI Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City.

The University of Iowa School of Music's 2012-13 Distinguished Clarinet Lecture/Recital Series on Brazilian Music will begin with a free event by faculty clarinetist Maurita Murphy Mead, assisted by guitar student ZeEmilio Gobbo, at 3:30 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 30, in the Senate Chamber of the Old Capitol.