A new UI study reports a potential link between stress hormones and short-term memory loss in older adults. The study, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, reveals that having high levels of cortisol—a natural hormone in our body whose levels surge when we are stressed—can lead to memory lapses as we age.

You might assume it was the night sky draped over his family’s farm that inspired the great UI astrophysicist Don Gurnett, but in fact it was his dad—a farmer who never went to high school—who sparked in his only child a curiosity for how things work.

University staff, faculty, students, and alumni are accomplishing great things every day. See who's making news with awards, publications, promotion and tenure, and more.

UI English professor Blaine Greteman writes that the current humanities death knell is only the latest in a centuries-long hue and cry: "Anyone following the humanities death watch for the last 600 years would be struck both by its recurring characters and its disconnect from objective fact."

Alyssa Lou Olson, a UI student majoring in vocal performance, was crowned Miss Iowa on Saturday.

Thanks to a generous award from the Student Technology Fund, composition students in the University of Iowa School of Music have been able to lay the necessary foundation for the school’s laptop orchestra. The students have created hemisphere speakers for their performances, and the composers are finding themselves on the stage for more than just taking a bow post-performance.

Across the ages, maps have helped people and societies chart their course through history. Now, technology opens up exciting new territory. From Iowa Alumni Magazine, a look at how maps reflect and shape our lives.

Charles Wright, a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, has been named the U.S. Poet Laureate.

A trip to Mexico inspired UI international studies major Blake Rupe to develop an app that encourages people to do something about litter.

Father’s Day is Sunday, June 15. To help honor dads, the University of Iowa is offering a list of experts who can talk about a range of topics from the role fathers play in society to how they communicate with their infant children.

A first of its kind study by researchers at the University of Iowa suggests Yahoo’s finance message boards have a small degree of ability to predict stock price movements.

The Rape Victim Advocacy Program at the University of Iowa is offering a Women’s Sexual Violence Support Group beginning Wednesday, June 18 and continuing until Wednesday, Aug. 6, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the RVAP offices, located at 332 S. Linn St., Suite 100 in Iowa City.