National Weather Service Director Louis W. Uccellini will visit the Iowa Flood Center at the University of Iowa Wednesday, Oct. 15, to discuss ways the organizations can work together to advance their missions.

Former Indianapolis 500 champion Buddy Lazier toured the University of Iowa Stephen A. Wynn Institute for Vision Research and even brought his car with him.

Nick Yablon, associate professor of American studies at the UI, gave a brief history of the time capsule as a tradition, calling it a fairly recent development that set off a "craze for sending things across time."

Faculty members across the University of Iowa campus are turning their attention to the impacts of climate change this month through a series of outreach initiatives.

Students whose parents or grandparents graduated from the University of Iowa will be eligible for up to $12,000 in new scholarships starting in 2015, one of several enhancements to first-year scholarship programs that aim to attract more high-achieving students and boost overall enrollment.

Students learn more in class when faculty members use clickers to assess what the students are learning, a new study from the University of Iowa suggests.

In recognition of its ongoing commitment to educational exchange between the U.S. and China, the University of Iowa was recently chosen as one of eight signature partners of the 100,000 Strong Foundation for 2014-15.

UI researchers have found a gene in a soil amoeba that can overcompensate for the specific mutations of a similar gene. In humans, those genetic mutations can often lead to tumor growth. Researchers are now looking for a separate human gene that could overcompensate for mutations in the same way.

As the only institute of its kind in the Midwest, King Sejong Institute at the University of Iowa will bring Korean language and culture to the Iowa City community, beginning Oct. 9 with a public kickoff celebration.

Alyssa Billmeyer of Marion, Iowa, is the first University of Iowa College of Pharmacy student to serve as president of the Graduate and Professional Student Government.

The state of Iowa’s long-standing ties to Hebei Province in China will strengthen with a new American Cultural Center opening in the provincial capital of Shijiazhuang next year.

The UI College of Education's Belin Blank Center has received a $500,000 grant from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, the nation's largest scholarship foundation, to expand the center's STEM Excellence and Literacy program.