Leaders at the University of Iowa Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center have announced recipients of the first round of the 2012 American Cancer Society seed grant awards.

Historian Marshall Poe, editor of the New Books Network, writes about the prospects for university presses.

The 2012 recipients of the University of Iowa College of Education's Audrey Qualls Commitment to Diversity Award—Jan Warren and Mitchell Kelly—both say that the award is extra special to them because of the woman it’s named after.

Theatre arts faculty member Eric Forsythe, artistic director of the current Iowa Summer Rep season of "Thrills and Chills" mysteries, once learned how truly dangerous theater can be when he became the prime suspect in a criminal investigation.

Death notices for current and retired UI employees. Links to online obituaries provided when available.

University of Iowa and state media experts hope a recent trip to the Middle East will strengthen relations with educational institutions in Turkey—a country they say is not so different from our own.

Here in Iowa City, the words we cultivate are as famous and prolific as the corn we grow. Like our relationship with the local crops that feed the world, we’re conscious of this town’s writing heritage, but most of the time, it’s a fuzzy backdrop for our daily lives.

University of Iowa political science professor Wenfang Tang says Chinese people know when to claim their right to resist the local government, especially effective in an Internet age using grassroots activism.

Research teams at the University of Iowa and Iowa State University have long been involved in the experiments at a Swiss research center leading to the potential discovery of a Higgs particle.

Using a unique animal model of cystic fibrosis, a team of scientists from the University of Iowa has discovered a difference between healthy airways and airways affected by cystic fibrosis that leads to reduced bacterial killing in cystic fibrosis airways.

David Perlmutter, director of the University of Iowa School of Journalism and Mass Communication, comments on presidential campaigns communicating via email.

Jack Scudder, a University of Iowa professor of physics and astronomy, has discovered how to find magnetic portals in space.