The University of Iowa College of Public Health is recognizing four leaders whose contributions across a range of disciplines are helping to promote better health and prevent disease throughout the state of Iowa. The award recipients were nominated by their peers in the Iowa public health practice community.

A first-of-its-kind study discovered that many hard-of-hearing children who receive optimal, early services are able to “catch up or significantly close the gaps with their hearing peers,” say researchers at the University of Iowa, Boys Town National Research Hospital, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Scientists have already known how to create new retinal cells from a patient’s skin. This new finding will help determine how nature builds a macula so that scientists may eventually reconstruct an injured one using the patient’s own cells.

With Don Gurnett, and James Van Allen before him, the University of Iowa has a strong legacy of leading the scientific community in the exploration and understanding of space.

The Tippie College of Business' full-time M.B.A. program jumped 20 spots to 55th place in Bloomberg Businessweek's annual ranking of U.S. M.B.A. programs. The part-time program jumped 24 spots to 52. The Tippie programs are the only M.B.A. programs in Iowa that made the rankings.

Throughout his decades-long career, University of Iowa physician-scientist Michael Welsh’s focus on cystic fibrosis has never wavered.

Student clinics at the UI College of Dentistry offer quality dental treatment for adults and children at a price that is about one-third to one-half the cost of a private dental practice.

The Board of Regents, State of Iowa, has approved renovations to two residence halls on the UI campus and the removal of a third to make way for the new College of Pharmacy building.

The UI Libraries’ Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio offers a collaborative work environment that serves faculty and students whose research and creative work benefit from concentrated efforts in digital knowledge creation, curricular innovation, idea dissemination, and project archiving.

The University of Iowa will conduct a campus climate survey to examine sexual misconduct occurring on campus, including sexual harassment, dating violence, stalking, and sexual violence. All degree-seeking undergraduate, graduate, and professional students will receive an email invitation to complete the Speak Out Iowa online survey on Monday, Oct. 26.

The University of Iowa’s Tippie College of Business will honor the family of Cloid Smith, founders and operators of Sioux City-based Jolly Time popcorn, for their century of contributions to Iowa business.

The University of Iowa first-year seminars, primarily taught by tenure-track faculty and senior administrators, are designed to connect faculty and students in order to build a foundation for academic success. They also improve retention rates, lessen students' feelings of anxiety, and sometimes point toward a career path not yet considered.