Researchers at the University of Iowa have found that overweight and obese children are at greater risk for pedestrian injury.

Iowa swept the basketball academic awards given by the College Sports Information Directors of America. Men’s basketball player Jarrod Uthoff was named the national Academic All-America of the Year, while Ally Disterhoft won the same award for women’s basketball. No other school has won both awards in the same year.

Why are there different hominin species sprinkled throughout the islands of Southeast Asia? A study led by UI paleoanthropologist Russell Ciochon suggests that ancient humans followed nomadic prey throughout the islands as the climate changed, then became isolated and later went extinct.

The University of Iowa School of Music will live stream the March 4 Kantorei and University Choir performance, beginning at 7:25 p.m. CST.

The New York Times profiles a program, the Big Ten New Play Initiative, started by UI Theatre Arts Chair Alan MacVey.

Jeremy Manternach guest conducted at two music conferences this month.

Research led by the UI has found another reason why people may dehumanize society’s outcasts: emotional exhaustion.

When Dalton Hinz auditioned with Volkan Orhon, a double-bass professor, he knew then and there that he was going to study at the University of Iowa. Orhon sets specific goals for each student in order for them to become well-rounded players capable of finding success, no matter their career path.

Ethan Canin, F. Wendell Miller Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Iowa, discusses troubled math genius Milo Andret, the lead character of his latest novel, A Doubter's Almanac.

Phil Kaaret, UI professor of physics and astronomy, says the discovery of gravitational waves resulting from two black holes merging into one “opens a new way of looking at the universe,” and that “it’s just beginning of discovery.”

The Virtual Soldier Research Program at the University of Iowa has been awarded a $2.6 million grant from the Office of Naval Research to create a simulation program to predict and prevent musculoskeletal injuries in U.S. Marines—one of the leading medical problems impeding military readiness.

The University of Iowa is the only academic institution ever to exhibit student work at the North American Handmade Bike Show.