Two Iowa football players are chasing unique dreams off the field by crafting and working on their own inventions with the help of the student business incubator at the University of Iowa.

Whether clicking on a mouse pad, typing on a keyboard, rocking an instrument, or using “percussion toys,” the University of Iowa’s laptop musicians consider their ensemble to be just like any other, except for one key difference: their instruments.

Researchers have discovered that satellites and astronauts are protected from "killer electrons" by an "invisible shield" within the Van Allen radiation belts, discovered by University of Iowa Space Physicist James A. Van Allen in 1958.

Studio director Jon Winet and UI history student Ethan DeGross will share their work in, “A Field Report from the ‘Studio:’ Public Digital Arts and Humanities Research at the University of Iowa,” from noon to 1 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 16, at the UI John and Mary Pappajohn Education Center in Des Moines.

Hancher executive director Chuck Swanson and UI printmaking faculty Anita Jung spent a portion of a recent Friday afternoon visiting with seventh-grade students at Spencer Middle School about their special role in a multi-school art project for the new auditorium.

With its empty channels and ghostly gullies, Mars resembles a planet once teeming with streams and flowing rivers. That begs the question: Where did all the water go? A University of Iowa space scientist aims to find out through an instrument on the Mars orbiter MAVEN.

Psychology's Cathleen Moore has been elected 2016 chair of the Psychonomic Society’s governing board. She will begin as chair-elect in 2015 and assume her role as chair the next year.

Eighteen University of Iowa students have been selected for the 2015 Obermann Graduate Institute sponsored by the UI Obermann Center for Advanced Studies. As Obermann Graduate Fellows, exploring how to combine public engagement with their research and teaching.

Two years after leading a team of 17 marines in Afghanistan, Logan Suhrbier is leading his fellow veterans to success on campus at the University of Iowa.

The Iowa Initiative for Sustainable Communities, a campus-wide effort that matches students and cities across the state to give students hands-on experience working on community projects, partnered with three cities in 2014–15. A Sioux City project had students working with community leaders to develop plans to revitalize the Leeds neighborhood.

The University of Iowa will celebrate International Education Week Nov. 17-21 with several events and activities, including a public ceremony to honor 2014 International Impact Award recipients Roger Thurow and Selma Jeronimo.

The University of Iowa Alumni Association presents its highest honor to 14 distinguished alumni in recognition of their significant accomplishments in business or professional life or in service to the university or their community, state, or nation.