Iowa will not be immune from a projected nationwide nursing shortage: “About 42 percent of nurses in Iowa are 50 years old or older,” said Rita Frantz, UI College of Nursing dean, “so there will be an exodus in the next 10 years or so” as the state’s nurses retire.

By harnessing Earth's gravity, NASA's Juno spacecraft will exceed the 165,000 mph needed to reach Jupiter: "This is called a slingshot maneuver or gravity assist; it uses Earth's orbital motion to accelerate the spacecraft toward Jupiter," said UI astrophysicist Bill Kurth.

A delegation of 10 central administrators from an elite Russian university is visiting the University of Iowa with a major goal. The distinguished group has been charged by the Russian Ministry of Education and Science to become a top-100 international research university by 2020.

Author and investigative journalist Tracie McMillan will visit the University of Iowa on Wednesday, Oct. 16 to lead a discussion and read from her book "The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table."

The University of Iowa will host the 2013 World Food Prize Laureates for a public lecture at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 15, in the Old Capitol.

University of Iowa Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation marks its centennial with a celebration in Iowa City Oct. 10-13.

As the 50th anniversary of the civil rights "Freedom Summer" approaches, the University of Iowa Alumni Association pays tribute to Iowans who risked their lives to help end discrimination.

David Gould has been chosen as the first Obermann Public Scholar, a pilot program designed to enhance research on campus through partnerships that engage University of Iowa researchers with innovators outside the university.

See the PERSON, NOT the disability" is the theme of the University of Iowa Disability Awareness T-shirt Campaign, one of several initiatives and activities planned as part of October, National Disability Awareness Month.

A unique partnership centered on STEM education and careers and involving the University of Iowa, Kirkwood Community College, and the Grant Wood Area Educational Agency will begin to take shape at 4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 11, with a groundbreaking at the UI Research Park.

Gary Barta, the UI's director of athletics, says the sum of the parts of the UI Athletics Department's strategic plan for the next five years are crystallized in five simple words: Win. Graduate. Do it right.

On Wednesday, NASA’s Juno mission will be passing within about 350 miles of Earth’s surface, which will be the closest it’s been to our planet since leaving it in August 2011.