Faced with declining enrollment and rising costs, some small liberal arts colleges have added professional and vocational majors, a decision University of Iowa researchers say has strengthened rather than undermined the mission of the schools. The findings are being presented Friday at the Association for the Study of Higher Education’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C.

Hear about University of Iowa students’ supporting the viability of a number of Iowa communities for years to come in, “Enhancing Sustainability in Iowa Through Community Engagement,” on Wednesday, Dec. 10, at noon in the Iowa Memorial Union Iowa Theater.

Home to one of the nation’s best hearing labs, the University of Iowa has now developed the most comprehensive genetic testing platform for deafness across the globe. Called OtoSCOPE, this technology allows researchers to pinpoint the exact genetic changes that cause people to lose their hearing.

UI Facilities Management will conduct a series of utilities steam blows from approximately 8 to 9 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 25, near the construction site of the Voxman Music Building at the intersection of Burlington and Clinton Streets.

The University of Iowa Foundation announced today, Friday, Nov. 21, that Hy-Vee has committed $500,000 toward the University of Iowa Children’s Hospital building campaign. The new UI Children’s Hospital is being designed as a healing environment that will improve the health and well-being of children and their families.

"UI Children’s Hospital has really changed our lives. They brought Rylan along from a disease which he was not expected to live more than a year to being a very healthy 8-year-old boy," says Mark Mohr, Rylan's father.

With its empty channels and ghostly gullies, Mars resembles a planet once teeming with streams and flowing rivers. That begs the question: Where did all the water go? A University of Iowa space scientist aims to find out through an instrument on the Mars orbiter MAVEN.

University of Iowa President Sally Mason met with reporters Tuesday, Nov. 18, at Jessup Hall as part of her regularly scheduled media availabilities, discussing student research and academic success as well as a new program to support veterans.

Two years after leading a team of 17 marines in Afghanistan, Logan Suhrbier is leading his fellow veterans to success on campus at the University of Iowa.

Anastasios “Tasos” Papachristoudis, a graduate student from Greece, was drawn to the UI because of its strong Master of Health Administration Program; he hopes to gain experience serving as an administrator in a rural hospital where he can also be an active part of the community.

Two online offerings from the University of Iowa Alumni Association give Hawkeye sports fans plenty of reasons to cheer.

University of Iowa President Sally Mason will meet with media representatives to share updates on the university and take questions on the record at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 18, at 101 Jessup Hall.