Sophisticated equipment such as computer numerical control (CNC) machines help students and faculty bring their visions to reality, experiment on a grand scale, and push the envelope in their disciplines.

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A new study from the University of Iowa finds rural hospitals that use telemedicine to back up their emergency room health care providers not only save money but find it easier to recruit new physicians.

Steve Goddard, senior associate to the executive vice chancellor at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, has been named dean of the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He will begin on June 1.

Micropatches could change the way vaccines and medicines are delivered in the U.S. and around the world, including many developing countries. Iowa researchers are testing the use of these patches on diverse populations to ensure patients receive optimal health benefits.

The University of Iowa’s Strategic Plan 2016–2021 Progress Report for fall 2018 outlines campus efforts toward achieving goals set forth in the plan. Highlights include an increase in federal funding for research and the UI’s inaugural First-Generation Summit.

A study from the Tippie College of Business finds that the use of visiting clinicians can effectively increases access to orthopedic care in rural hospitals that can’t afford to have an orthopedist on staff.

A study by College of Public Health researcher Kelly Baker highlights the relationship between adverse birth outcomes and sanitation access, domestic water fetching, crime, and gender-based harassment. It finds that the more time a woman spends fetching water, the more likely she is to have a low birth weight baby.

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.