Whether they are searched to help settle an argument, to research a historical or genealogical question, or to simply satisfy idle curiosity, the online collections of the Hawkeye yearbook and The Daily Iowan are a fun resource for anyone with an interest in Iowa’s past.

University of Iowa researchers have discovered what causes the lethal effects of staphylococcal infective endocarditis—a serious bacterial infection of heart valves that kills approximately 20,000 Americans each year.

Dan Reed, UI vice president of research and economic development, and David Hensley, UI interim associate vice president for economic development, participated in a discussion at Iowa Western Community College about the university's role in helping economic development in southwest Iowa.

UI history professor Colin Gordon, author of Growing Apart: A Political History of American Inequality, says the decline in union membership has taken political power away from workers and ceded ground to groups with other interests.

In the 1940s, Dr. Ignacio Ponseti, a pediatric orthopedist at the University of Iowa, developed a method of treating clubfoot by stretching the tendon and casting to straighten the foot gradually. In the 1990s, parents searching for the best treatment for their children shared tips online. A Yahoo group, nosurgery4clubfoot, sprang up.

Three college buddies and UI alumni from dentistry, nursing, and business—Alec Whitters, Ben O'Connor, and Adam Keune—have created some of the most innovative tech products in 2013 through their company, Higher Learning Technologies, located in the UI Research Park.

Alice Schoonbroodt, a UI economics professor, says it makes sense that birthrates continue to be unusually low since many Americans remain uneasy with the slow recovery from the Great Recession in 2009.

UI mascot Herky visited Roosevelt Middle School in Cedar Rapids to watch students share what they had learned during a three-day camp offered through the UI College of Education's Iowa Center for Assistive Technology Education and Research.

Chef Robert Lewis, "The Happy Diabetic," will demonstrate healthy dishes for diabetics on Aug. 17 at the Iowa State Fair. The demonstration coincides with an effort at the University of Iowa to enroll participants in a national study to identify the most effective drugs to treat type-2 diabetes.

Matthew Rizzo, a UI professor of neurology, comments on the difficulty of assessing various factors on driver safety, in a story on the impact of sleep aids and drowsy driving, which also mentions UI's National Advanced Driving Simulator as a resource used by drug companies.

University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics is using a new 3-D imaging tool called tomosynthesis to help detect breast cancer earlier, resulting in a 40 percent improvement in cancer detection rates, according to Dr. Laurie Fajardo, UI Hospitals and Clinics professor of radiology.

African-American women, who have long complained of the negative impact of predatory lending, appear to be coveted candidates when it comes to getting loans, according to a study by researchers at the University of Iowa.

Researchers at the Getty Conservation Institute have labored for a year to repair one of the 20th century's most important American paintings—a Jackson Pollock creation called Mural, which is owned by the University of Iowa. (Note: A paid subscription is required.)

Dr. Sonali Patel, a pediatric cardiologist who helped found a childhood obesity clinic at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics two years ago, has seen steady increases in the number of Iowa children with complications from obesity.

Capsule summaries of several UI researchers who will present their work at the American Sociological Association's annual meeting in New York, which runs from Aug. 10-13.

Lenders have high impressions of African-American females and are apt to loan them as much money as white males, according to a new study by University of Iowa sociologist Sarah Harkness. Conversely, loan applications from African-American males and white females are judged more strictly. Stereotypes about race, gender, work history, education and other factors shaped lenders' attitudes. Harkness...

Steve Wynn, chairman and chief executive officer of Wynn Resorts, Limited, has donated $25 million to the UI to accelerate the search for cures for rare eye diseases, including the one that hampers his own vision.

Stephen A. Wynn has made a $25 million gift commitment to the University of Iowa to support the UI’s Institute for Vision Research. The gift, which was announced at today’s meeting of the Board of Regents, State of Iowa held in Ames, will be used to accelerate progress toward cures for rare, inherited retinal diseases.

In a new study, published online Aug. 8 in the journal Science, a University of Iowa team led by Kevin Campbell, Ph.D., has pinpointed not just one, but three proteins that are required for constructing a key, early section of a critical sugar chain. Mutations affecting any one of these three proteins can cause congenital muscular dystrophies in humans.

University of Iowa research has led to the development of a drug that could help some patients who have the eye disease macular degeneration.