As 2016 presidential candidates descend on the Iowa State Fair, UI Political Science Professor Cary Covington discusses those at the "back of the pack."

UI 3D design students created the UI’s booth for the 2015 Iowa State Fair—a first for both the program and the university. The hexagon—a shape found in the construct of DNA—was used thematically in the booth, as a way to convey innovation, technology, creativity, and research.

The American Association of University Women (AAUW) awarded a 2015-16 American Fellowship to Shelby S. Putt, a doctoral candidate in anthropology at the University of Iowa.

China has about 100 million children learning English and a pair of the University of Iowa students have started a new business to help them.

By providing workers with a portable pedaling device, Lucas Carr, an assistant professor in the Department of Health and Human Physiology and member of the Obesity Research and Education Initiative at the UI, discovered people who were once sitting all day were now moving at work without even getting up.

Students at the Lucille A. Carver Mississippi Riverside Environmental Research Station get their feet wet—literally and figuratively—in the University of Iowa's Water Quality class.

The University of Iowa is using 3-D printers to create exact replicas of one of the world's most advanced particle detectors.

How do local governments and national agencies monitor one of our most valuable resources? With research and data from the Iowa Flood Center.

Two UI College of Education alumnae are creating an after-school drumming club in Mount Vernon, Iowa, as a result of participating in a World Music Drumming Workshop. That event, hosted by the UI and West Music, drew more than 60 music teachers from across the state and nation.

Dan Matheson, lecturer in the UI Sport and Recreation Management program, offers advice to students interested in working in team operations and his experiences working for the Chicago Cubs, New York Yankees, and the NCAA.

Telescopes for peeking at showers of light sparked by high-energy gamma rays have been a focus for Iowa City home-schooled student Liza Casella. For the past month, she has conducted research with UI astronomy and physics professor Philip Kaaret as part of the UI Belin-Blank Center's Secondary Student Training Program.

Renee S. Cole, associate professor of physical chemistry and chemistry education in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Leonard MacGillivray, professor of organic chemistry in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, were named as American Chemical Society Fellows.