The university dedicated its new Visual Arts Building on Oct. 7. The building, designed by renowned architect Steven Holl, is both technologically advanced and artistically inspiring.

Hundreds of art students and faculty joined dancers, musicians, and local dignitaries in the brilliantly lit central foyer of the Visual Arts Building on Friday to dedicate the new building.

With the U.S. presidential election just weeks away, computer security experts say it’s too late to make major improvements for this election, but voting officials can take several steps for upcoming elections.

There are some haunting sounds coming from Jupiter. An instrument designed and built at the University of Iowa recorded the spooky sounds from the planet’s auroras during the first full orbit by the NASA spacecraft Juno. Several UI researchers are involved in the mission to our solar system’s largest planet.

Studies have proven that music can lift a patient's mood, help manage stress and agitation and facilitate cognitive function and help with motor movements. Now, researchers at the University of Iowa are measuring the impact music has on the health outcomes of Alzheimer's patients in Iowa City.

Music therapist Alaine Reschke-Hernandez and neurologist Dan Tranel have teamed up to measure the impact music has on the health outcomes of Alzheimer’s patients in Iowa City. River to River host Ben Kieffer talks with Reschke-Hernandez and Tranel about the connections between music and the brain.

The new Visual Arts Building is filled with cutting-edge technology to help artists create, but it rests on a foundation of one basic element: light.

After researching the Scattergood Hostel in West Branch, Iowa—a former home for refugees escaping Nazi Germany—for a history course last spring, University of Iowa junior William Simpson went on to complete an independent study of Scattergood throughout the summer.

The Studio Arts Division of the School of Art and Art History is pleased to be back on campus and to have one of the best academic art buildings designed anywhere in decades as its new home.

The grant, called a Special Interests Project (SIP), is awarded by the Prevention Research Centers program office at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The three-year, $202,820 grant will help to create a database that includes information on policy actions by all 50 state legislatures, administrative branches, and courts to track the spread of policies adopted throughout the United States.

His appointment is a part of his role as a 2016–17 Congressional Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).