Brian Dlouhy, MD, UI assistant professor of neurosurgery and member of the Pappajohn Biomedical Institute, has been named the first Getch Scholar by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and the Congress of Neurosurgeons.

The University of Iowa will honor December 2015 graduates in a series of commencement ceremonies and other events, Friday and Saturday, Dec. 18 and 19.

With the help of a robot developed by three UI undergrads, a neurosurgeon could complete a complicated, hours-long surgery without ever looking directly at the patient’s brain or the tumor that’s being removed.

Working at the Free Mental Health Clinic is one way that UI third-year medical student Tim Ando gives back: back to the community and back to those who have helped him along the way. Plus, he's learning a few things about becoming a better physician and a better communicator.

A University of Iowa study suggests that gamma interferon, an FDA-approved drug, may have potential as an antiviral therapy to prevent Ebola infection when given either before or after exposure to the virus.

A video recording of the winter 2015 UI Undergraduate Ceremony, which includes students from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Tippie College of Business, University College, and the Bachelor of Science degree candidates in the Carver College of Medicine, is now available for viewing.

Using data from over 21,000 patients, a UI study shows that survival has improved for women with stage IV breast cancer over the past two and a half decades and that receiving surgery to remove the primary tumor is associated with improved survival.

A new University of Iowa invention aims to make patients feel less like human pincushions when it comes to IV needles, while creating a technology that could be a significant player in the global health care market.

When Kaelea Butterfield was in kindergarten, her parents learned she has severe, life-threatening asthma. Not only is she unable to breathe in enough oxygen during an episode, she’s unable to breathe out carbon dioxide as well.

For the second straight year, a University of Iowa immunology team took home the Knowledge Bowl championship title at the American College of Rheumatology’s Annual Meeting, held this year Nov. 6–11 in San Francisco.

Two University of Iowa faculty members have been named fellows by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Pamela Geyer, in biochemistry and obstetrics and gynecology, and Amnon Kohen, in chemistry, will be honored at the AAAS annual meeting in February.

A desalination device that also creates electricity and a screening system to detect symptoms of delirium are among the University of Iowa faculty inventions that were awarded a total of $625,000 in gap funding by the University of Iowa Research Foundation.