Proposed Medicaid cuts would make things harder for Iowa’s rural hospitals and could jeopardize access to health care for rural residents, says Keith Mueller, UI College of Public Health interim dean.

Jennifer Robinson, professor of epidemiology in the College of Public Health, says that to successfully improve risk-factor control for women suffering from cardiovascular disease, awareness efforts must be coupled with quality clinician education and implementation programs.

In this podcast, Cara Hamann, professor of epidemiology in the College of Public Health, discusses her research into the increasing number of bicycle fatalities in Iowa and how public policy can help make roads safer for bicyclists.

College of Public Health doctoral student Erin Mobley was one of four students nationally selected by AcademyHealth to receive the Alice S. Hersh Student Scholarship in recognition of her commitment to the field of health services research or health policy and potential to contribute to health services research or health policy in the future.

Former U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera says his time at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop was a pivotal bridge between his writing as a young activist in the Chicano Movement and his writing as a poet laureate.

The University of Iowa’s State Fair Working Group seeks volunteers for the UI booth at the Iowa State Fair Aug. 10–20 in Des Moines. Each volunteer receives fair admission, a parking pass, and a University of Iowa T-shirt.

The Iowa Geological Survey’s “rock library,” housed at the University of Iowa Research Park, holds 40,000 rock samples from drilling sites across the state. Other holdings include geodes (the state stone) and fossilized remnants of Iowa’s prehistoric sea.

E. Dale Abel, chair and DEO of the Department of Internal Medicine in the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, will deliver the University of Iowa’s 35th annual Presidential Lecture on Sunday, Feb. 18, 2018.

“U.S. News & World Report” has ranked University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital in six specialties in the 2017–18 Best Children’s Hospitals list: No. 20 in neonatology, No. 21 in nephrology, No. 34 in cancer, No. 36 in urology, No. 45 in pulmonology, and No. 48 in cardiology/heart surgery.

Just hours after the first General Assembly of the State of Iowa voted to establish the State University of Iowa in February 1847, a meteorite crashed to the ground in rural Linn County. UI archivist David McCartney shares the story.

The University of Iowa is excited to announce that the dedication of the new Elizabeth Catlett Residence Hall will take place on Friday, July 28. The 12-story residence hall, named for renowned sculptor and printmaker Elizabeth Catlett, will be the university’s largest, housing 1,049 students.

The University of Iowa has named five faculty recipients of 2017–18 Big Ten Academic Alliance Leadership Program fellowships.