A number of graduating University of Iowa students will be walking across the stage at commencement this week and right into one of the state’s “hot jobs,” as identified by Iowa Workforce Development.

Thousands of University of Iowa students will mark educational milestones as they receive their degrees at spring 2014 commencement ceremonies, which begin May 15 and conclude in early June.

A media availability will be Monday, May 12, from 1 to 2 p.m. in 2780 University Capitol Centre, when officials announce a new initiative to help student veterans succeed thanks to a partnership with the Iowa City VA Health Care System and the University of Iowa, The program, the first of its kind in the nation, is called the Iowa Consortium of Veteran Excellence.

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A veteran race car driver will try for this month's Indianapolis 500 with a Tigerhawk logo on his vehicle to raise awareness for an area of medical research close to his heart.

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PhD candidate Eliot Shearer, M.D. and his colleagues discuss the OtoSCOPE, an innovative new testing platform that can scan all the genes in the time it would normally take to examine one gene.

The 1996 Indy 500 winner will use this year's run as a chance to raise awareness and funding for vision research at the University of Iowa.

Eight University of Iowa students and alumni have been awarded Fulbright U.S. Student Program grants to conduct research, undertake creative projects, or serve as English teaching assistants abroad in 2014-15.

Coming in spring 2015, the University of Iowa's first theme semester will highlight perspectives on food—the traditions it inspires, its relationship with health, the economics behind its production, and much more.

A University of Iowa virologist who developed the first mouse model of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) says experience with the SARS outbreak in 2003-04 has helped with rapid MERS response.

UI scientists have shown that a natural steroidal compound derived from green tomatoes boosts the growth of human muscle cells in lab cultures and is a potent inhibitor of muscle atrophy in mice.