Nearly 60 teacher “externs” from across Iowa are participating in the Iowa Mathematics & Science Education Partnership’s Real World Externship Program for Teachers of Mathematics and Sciences. The program, now in its fourth year, aims to give math and science teachers real-world experience using science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) concepts.

A UI study headed by Maria Kraimer found that workers for multinational companies who have spent time on a foreign assignment don’t feel fully appreciated for their global experience, leading to a higher-than-normal turnover rate.

Robert Wallace, the director of the University of Iowa Center on Aging, says there are good reasons why Iowa City ranks second among the best places to grow old. Subscription required.

University of Iowa political science emeritus Michael Lewis-Beck has developed an election-prediction model that sifts decades of data.

An estimated 4,000 University of Iowa students will move into residence halls Wednesday and Thursday, Aug. 15 and 16, creating changes in traffic flow and access around the main residence halls.

The University of Iowa Council on Disability Awareness (CDA) recently announced its new officers for 2012-13—Carly Armour, Teresa Kout, Kathy Ford, and Deanna Carter.

The late Philip G. Hubbard, University of Iowa emeritus vice president and emeritus professor of mechanical engineering, will be honored posthumously Friday, Aug. 3 with an induction into the Iowa African-American Hall of Fame at The Meadows Event Center, Altoona, Iowa.

Remote monitoring of intensive care patients—a strategy to maximize scarce medical expertise—can cost hospitals from $50,000 to $100,000 per bed in the first year of operation, according to a study by lead author and UI fellow Gaurav Kumar.

Workers for big multinational companies who spend time on a foreign assignment have a higher than normal turnover rate when they come back home, and a new study suggests that’s because they don’t feel fully appreciated for their global experience.

Researchers at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine have discovered a genetic process that can restore function to a defective protein, which is the most common cause of cystic fibrosis (CF).

Robert Miller, who joins the University of Iowa law faculty this fall, says there is no silver bullet for Peregrine Financial Group investors.

Five award-winning writers are representing the University of Iowa International Writing Program at the Zimbabwe International Book Fair.