Kenneth P. Kates, University of Iowa Health Care associate vice president and UI Hospitals and Clinics CEO, has announced his intention to retire in summer 2018.

UI Dance Marathon announced a $2 million gift commitment to establish the University of Iowa Dance Marathon Chair in Pediatric Oncology, Clinical and Translational Research. The gift will fund a faculty position in the UI Stead Family Department of Pediatrics to lead the pediatric cancer research program.

Using Twitter and some basic biographical information, UI PhD candidate Kristina Bigbsy can predict with 70 percent accuracy where a high school football player will decide to go to college.

University of Iowa President J. Bruce Harreld welcomes the UI community back to campus while considering what past struggles at Iowa can teach us about the present and future.

The Chief Diversity Office outlined four priorities for the coming year at the office's annual Update on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion on Jan. 17.

Fellows in the Obermann Graduate Institute on Engagement and the Academy explore how public engagement can enhance teaching, research, and creative work.

The University of Iowa’s assistant vice president and dean of students, Lyn Redington, has accepted a position as vice president for student life at Idaho State University.

Researchers with IIHR—Hydroscience and Engineering and the Iowa Flood Center have identified three distinct clusters of “atmospheric rivers,” a step that could improve severe weather prediction and emergency preparation.

A pair of University of Iowa alumni have been honored as Entrepreneurs of the Year by the American Farm Bureau Federation for the business, SwineTech, Inc., which they founded while UI students using resources of the John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center (JPEC).

SwineTech In., a business founded at the University of Iowa, has been honored as Entrepreneur of the Year by the American Farm Bureau Federation.

Martin Gallardo wanted to make dietary changes, and he wanted to stick to them. Through liveWELL’s health coach service, he found what he was looking for, and he wants to share his experiences with fellow UI faculty and staff.

The University of Iowa has a new sandbox—and it’s used to explain gravity. Undergraduates in the Department of Physics and Astronomy designed and built an augmented-reality sandbox where users can design their own universe and then watch how gravity affects an object as it travels through the imagined environment.