As the number of non-native English speakers in Iowa’s K–12 schools continues to grow, and as more parents demand dual-language education for their children, the University of Iowa College of Education is providing training programs aimed at preparing current and future educators to meet the demand.

As thousands of RAGBRAI riders pour into Iowa City Friday, July 27, the downtown district—alleyways included—will serve as an entertainment hub for cyclists, citizens, and other visitors. But that might not have been possible without a partnership between the city and the University of Iowa’s Iowa Initiative for Sustainable Communities.

In 2017, two University of Iowa alums, Ed Moreno and Tracy Peterson, teamed up to bring pre-engineering camps to West Liberty, Iowa. This year, they are at it again.

The University of Iowa College of Public Health is partnering with Iowa State University in a new national institute that will address the global public health concern of antimicrobial resistance.

The search committee charged with selecting the next vice president for research at the University of Iowa has a new co-chair. Dorothy Johnson, Roy J. Carver Professor of Art History in the School of Art and Art History, will replace David Gier, director of the School of Music.

University of Iowa President J. Bruce Harreld commends UI researchers for the 16 percent increase in federal funding they attracted in fiscal year 2018.

The University of Iowa Office of Outreach and Engagement has worked with Jasper County for several years on projects in Lynnville, Sully, Baxter, and Newton. A majority of those projects—including two recent ones in Lynnville and Sully—were completed with help from the College of Engineering.

The New York Academy of Medicine has awarded its prestigious 2018 Lewis Rudin Glaucoma Prize to Val C. Sheffield, of the University of Iowa, for his groundbreaking research on glaucoma treatment.

Local leaders play a vital role in cultivating a culture that allows people to do their best work. We all can be leaders in well-being.

Created in response to the floods that ravaged Iowa City and eastern Iowa in 2008, the Iowa Flood Center at the University of Iowa set out to better predict flooding. Part of their work included creating an interactive inundation map for the city of Ames.

Kristin Flanary , who oversees the Iowa Online AP Academy at the College of Education’s Belin-Blank Center, recently weighed in on elite prep schools that are doing away with Advanced Placement courses. Flanary says that in Iowa, the courses are still the best option for challenging gifted and talented students.

The University of Iowa is leading a $1 million federal grant to gather and share water quality information from five states along the Upper Mississippi River. Iowa State University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will also take part in the three-year National Science Foundation big data program.