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Recent UI graduate Katie Kuntz knew that three minutes wasn't enough to tell the story of the children of methamphetamine users, so she expanded her journalism class project into a senior thesis documentary, which will premier in Council Bluffs this week.

The Iowa Lions Eye Bank, a leading resource for research on eye diseases and cornea transplantation, is housed at the University of Iowa. Researchers are using the Eye Bank to understand blinding eye diseases and develop new treatments.

Naowarut Charoenca can’t help but appreciate the value of relationships—those developed over a lifetime, as well as the new ones she is cultivating with colleagues as part of a three-month visiting professorship in the University of Iowa College of Public Health.

The UI is offering Summer Hawk Tuition Grants for students who entered as freshmen in 2013 and took at least 12 semester hours of credit in the fall and spring; the program helps students stay on track to graduate in four years.

The UI, UNI, ISU and Drake teacher training programs are accredited by the Iowa Board of Education through a system managed by the Iowa Department of Education; they forego national accreditation because the state standards are more rigorous.

Some 3,800 undergraduate students at the University of Iowa were named to the Dean's List for the 2014 spring semester.

University of Iowa researchers have discovered a new form of neurotransmission that influences the long-lasting memory created by addictive drugs, like cocaine and opioids, and the subsequent craving for these drugs of abuse. Loss of this type of neurotransmission creates changes in brains cells that resemble the changes caused by drug addiction.

Hamilton High School’s Hannah Miao is spending part of her summer in a creative writing workshop at the University of Iowa called Between the Lines, a program that brings together young, talented writers of various cultural backgrounds.

UI journalism professor Frank Durham joins two Iowa State colleagues for a discussion of the disconnect between the types of news people say is important (international, business, political) and they types of stories the click on online; is reading hard news coverage like eating your vegetables?

University of Iowa's Hancher will connect great artists with great audiences with another robust season of events.

Mark Blumberg, F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychology, has been honored with a MERIT Award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, becoming only the second faculty member in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to ever receive this honor.