Workers will use a crane to inspect and repair a pulley system in the dome of the University of Iowa’s Old Capitol Museum Thursday morning, Jan. 15.

The Iowa Board of Regents has selected two consulting firms to assist with implementation of a series of cost saving measures at the three public universities beginning next month. TIER, or the Transparent Inclusive Efficiency Review, identified 12 administrative business cases for potential savings in Human Resources, Finance, IT, and Facilities.

Officials with the University of Iowa will travel to Iowa Western Community College (IWCC) in Council Bluffs and Western Iowa Tech Community College (WITCC) in Sioux City Jan. 13, to officially launch two new UI Partners offices, which support small business and entrepreneur development.

The University of Iowa Museum of Art (UIMA) set an all-time museum record for for participation and attendance at events during the 2013-14 academic year. The UIMA drew 538,260 people, significantly surpassing the previous historical record of 146,470 for 2012-13.

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching selected the UI to receive its 2015 Community Engagement Classification, based on the university's commitment and involvement to the community. The UI has been designated for the first time, and joins 239 other higher-education institutions across the nation for this year’s honor.

University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics will participate in a $7 million, three-year project to improve health care coordination between primary care and specialty physicians using e-consult and e-Referral technology.

“Ecosystem in the Design Processes,” an exhibition by the University of Iowa 3-D Design program, is currently on display at CSPS in Cedar Rapids. UI design students and faculty member Monica Correia will be available for interview at an artist reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 8.

Using a different type of MRI imaging, researchers at the University of Iowa have discovered previously unrecognized differences in the brains of patients with bipolar disorder.

A new study conducted by the University of Iowa and four other universities found some areas of the brain grow more slowly in children with Type 1 diabetes than those without, according to findings published in Diabetes.

The Getty Center hosted one of the top exhibits of 2014. The exhibit featured just one work: a newly conserved masterpiece from 1943 by the abstract expressionist painter Jackson Pollock.

The University of Iowa, Kirkwood Community College, seven partner school districts and 25 STEM business and industry leaders have been awarded an Iowa Governor’s STEM Center grant to jointly design a STEM innovator course at the new Kirkwood Regional Center which opens in the fall of 2015.The one-time $24,948 grant will be used to develop a course in which students will work with industry and...

A newly published study involving the University of Iowa finds crows have the brainpower to solve higher-order, relational-matching tasks, and they can do so spontaneously. That means crows join humans, apes, and monkeys in exhibiting advanced relational thinking, according to the research. Results appear in the journal Current Biology.