The University of Iowa awarded an estimated 5,200 degrees at the close of the 2013 spring session.

Thirty-one of the country's and the world’s brightest high school students performed six weeks of hands-on scientific research as part of the University of Iowa's Secondary Student Training Program (SSTP). Students will present their findings in a poster session from 10 a.m. to noon this Friday, July 26.

UI students Jerid Schumacher, Jake Thomas, Taylor Grote, and Levi Maxfield hosted a launch party in April for their online clothing store, Widespread Threads, based in Iowa City. The start-up company gives a T-shirt to a child in need for each one it sells.

The second annual Get Ready Iowa workshop will take place this Wednesday, July 24, in the Lindquist Center Jones Commons on the University of Iowa campus.

UI senior Jolene Luther’s grandfather, William Holcomb, died from Huntington disease (HD) in the fall of 2011, but his impact lives on through the research Luther is doing this summer at the UI.

Daniel Reed, UI's vice president for research and economic development, writes about the global race to build ever-faster supercomputers and the need for radical innovations versus incremental, small steps.

A new, three-year research project at the University of Iowa is focused on helping pilots react and recover when the auto-pilot system in the plane malfunctions.

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

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.

UI faculty members Claire Fox and Omar Valerio-Jiménez led the 2013 Obermann Summer Seminar, gathering 14 distinguished scholars in Latino/a Studies to the University of Iowa, who helped create the anthology and web platform, The Latino Midwest Reader.

Jana Klauke, director of MBA Career Services at the University of Iowa's Tippie School of Management, said reform could happen on an industry-by-industry basis, with resistance in some of the most competitive fields as part of a story on the future of unpaid internships.

A new UI Public Policy Center study says that 3 percent of Iowa children do not have health insurance, one of the lowest rates in the nation that could nonetheless be improved.