Reams has been at the University of Iowa for more than a decade, most recently serving as associate dean of students and director of Student Care & Assistance, which provides support to students experiencing crises or emergency situations.

The University of Iowa search committee for the executive vice president and provost has selected four finalists. The candidates will visit campus over the next three weeks to participate in public forums and meet with faculty, staff, and campus leadership.

The University of Iowa Graduate College appointed Steven M. Varga to the position of associate dean, effective Jan. 1, 2019.

University of Iowa geologists are leading an effort to determine whether an ancient geologic formation in northeast Iowa contains precious minerals. The researchers are dating the underground rocks to find out whether they’re similar to a geologic complex in Minnesota known to possess valuable metals.

Bernie Franks is a grandmother who spent years helping others but always felt something in her own life was left unfinished. She joins the NBC's TODAY show to talk about how she took a big leap and proved it’s never too late to fulfill a promise.

Eman Ismail, a Saudi-trained dentist and a PhD student in the Oral Science Program at the University of Iowa, uses dental composites to treat broken teeth with the goal of improving outcomes in dental-restoration procedures.

Anne Helene Skinstad, clinical professor in the College of Public Health, has recently been awarded grants totaling $9.5 million over the next five years to help reduce drug and alcohol addiction among American Indian and Alaska Native populations.

UI senior Erica Cole started a company called No Limbits after she lost her leg in a car accident last May. The company makes custom prosthetic limbs.

University of Iowa researcher Jeffrey Dorale has contributed to a new study that determines how much oceans rose during a particularly warm climate period about 120,000 years ago. The results are based on an analysis of mineral deposits found in caves on an island in the western Mediterranean.

Chemists at the University of Iowa have designed and demonstrated a new approach to spatially configuring chains of atoms in a natural compound that may have medical uses.

A NASA mission conceived at the University of Iowa is exploring how energized particles interact with Earth. The missions, called, Twin Rockets to Investigate Cusp Electrodynamics, or TRICE-2, launched earlier this month. They're exploring magnetic reconnection, the explosive process that allows charged particles from space to stream into Earth’s atmosphere.

A report from the UI Colleges of Public Health and Law finds that the justice system doesn't do enough to prevent elder abuse, which leads this editorial to call on the Iowa legislature to provide more funding for initiatives to reduce it.