University of Iowa researchers show that the hippocampus is involved in language processing, possibly providing additional insight into how to treat people with Alzheimer’s disease. Results appear in the Journal of Experimental Psychology.

From penning award-winning television scripts to developing alternative energy solutions for third-world countries, UI alumni are making their marks across the spectrum.

The University of Iowa Athletics Department will be holding a Norm Parker Celebration of Life service on Saturday, May 31 at Kinnick Stadium. The service, which is open to the public, will be held from 1 to 3 p.m. in the south end zone of Kinnick Stadium.

By acquiring DirecTV, AT&T will get the scale to compete more effectively against a combined Comcast-Time Warner Cable, making that transaction appear less threatening to regulators, says UI law professor Herb Hovenkamp.

Death notices for current and retired UI employees. Links to online obituaries provided when available.

Experience the sights and sounds from the Hancher construction site as artists perform during a break for construction workers with a performance that will be a part of the new facility in the fall of 2016.

About 200 students are taking classes tuition-free at the University of Iowa this summer thanks to the Hawk Tuition Grant.

University staff, faculty, students, and alumni are accomplishing great things every day. See who's making news with awards, publications, promotion and tenure, and more.

Professionals from across the state who serve the LGBTQ youth population, as well as homeless youth and those in foster care, attended Iowa’s first statewide Summit on LGBTQ Homeless and Out-of-Home Youth, which took place in the UI College of Education's Teacher Leader Center.

"The Antinomies of Realism," written by Fredric Jameson and published by Verso, is the winner of the 2014 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin. The $30,000 award—the largest annual cash prize in English-language literary criticism—is administered for the Truman Capote Estate by the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Dr. Hans House says a drop in the number of visits to the emergency room at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics is likely seasonal and not related to Affordable Care Act-related changes.

Indianapolis 500 Media Day took place on Thursday, May 22, at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Buddy Lazier, the 1996 Indianapolis 500 champion, answered numerous questions about the logo that appeared across the chest of his team racing shirt—the Wynn Institute for Vision Research logo, along with the famous Tigerhawk.