Pigeons with iPads, olfactory functions and Alzheimer’s disease, smoking behaviors of stroke patients, and Ralph Ellison and The New York Times are all areas of research being pursued by students involved in the Summer Research Opportunities Program and the McNair Scholars program (SROP/McNair Scholars) through the University of Iowa Graduate College.

University of Iowa and University of Iowa Health Care units will participate in the Johnson County Fair this week, Monday through Thursday, July 23-26. Both booths will be in Building C at the Johnson County Fairgrounds.

A $25 million pledge by the Fraternal Order of Eagles guaranteeing that one floor of the university's under-construction Pappajohn Biomedical Discovery Building be devoted to diabetes research has at least one member of the UI community feeling optimistic.

University of Iowa on Thursday named Debra A. Schwinn as the next dean of the Carver College of Medicine.

University of Iowa Health Care is one of four Iowa health systems forming a statewide alliance in a move to lower costs and improve quality.

University of Iowa vascular disease researcher Jess G. Fiedorowicz is a winner of the 2012 Klerman Award from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation.

University of Iowa leaders today named Debra A. Schwinn, M.D., as the next dean of the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine.

Research by Surya Bhatt and University of Iowa colleagues deepens the understanding of the connection between arrhythmias and COPD.

University of Iowa investigators are using social media more than ever to connect the public and colleagues with new research developments.

University of Iowa Health Care leaders announced this morning that University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics is included yet again on a widely recognized list of the leading hospitals in the United States.

Jonathan Klein, medical director for the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at University of Iowa Children’s Hospital, comments on the use of cooling therapy for newborns.

Leaders at the University of Iowa Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center have announced recipients of the first round of the 2012 American Cancer Society seed grant awards.