The UI College of Public Health conducted a survey of LGBTQ Iowans about their health care issues, the first such survey of its size in the state.

College of Engineering wins $933K to study new ways to use coal

UI researchers are looking into the ways that the neighborhood you live in contributes to your health. Qian Xiao, assistant professor of health and human physiology, and postdoctoral researcher Dong Zhang worked with Iowa collaborators and others further afield to track cancer rates and mortality in various communities.

Tianlu Zhang, a PhD student in second-language acquisition, was named the winner of the 2018 3MT contest.

Bernadine Franks graduates from the University of Iowa in December 2018.

Two scientists from the University of Iowa have been named 2018 American Association for the Advancement of Science fellows. Ann Budd, in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, and Madeline Shea, in the Department of Biochemistry, will be honored at the February 2019 AAAS meeting in Washington, D.C.

Veteran TV writers Mitchell Burgess and Robin Green (“Northern Exposure,” “The Sopranos,” “Blue Bloods”) launched a class at the UI this fall called Writing for Television.

UI senior Austin Hughes was recently named one of 32 American Rhodes scholars. UI senior Melissa Lauer was also a finalist for the prestigious scholarship.

Students, faculty, and researchers across the Midwest and beyond will gain crucial access to large research datasets through a secure, cloud-based platform called Collaborative Archive & Data Research Environment. CADRE will be developed through a large-scale partnership that includes eight Big Ten universities, a federal funding agency, and private companies.

If classes are canceled, the university will issue a Hawk Alert and post to the UI homepage, the UI Emergency Information website, and its Twitter account.

University of Iowa music therapist PhD student Alaine E. Reschke-Hernández planned and facilitated a study in four Iowa nursing homes to examine the effectiveness of music therapy intervention for people with Alzheimer’s or related dementias.

When researchers from the University of Iowa and Princeton University looked more closely at precipitation and flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey in Houston last year, they found that the city’s urban density directly contributed to the storm’s devastating and deadly impact.