Consistently above the national average for female engineering student enrollment, the UI engineering program's unique small-college atmosphere at a Big Ten university, research opportunities in the health sciences, and emphasis on collaboration over competition are among the top reasons administrators and students say women choose to study here.

UI Health Care faculty and staff are encouraged to share innovations in patient safety and quality improvement, education, and research at the Fourth Annual Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Symposium. Works in progress are also welcome.

The University of Iowa and the University of Iowa Foundation announced March 9 that 194,541 UI alumni and friends have contributed $1.7 billion to "For Iowa. Forever More: The Campaign for the University of Iowa," reaching the campaign’s goal.

Nominate staff or faculty members for one of three awards recognizing their commitment and progress toward greater innovation, efficiency, and progress through the Annual TIER Excellence Awards.

Domestic violence during pregnancy doubles the risk of pre-term birth and low birth weight, according to a study. UI Researchers also found that domestic violence, which includes physical, sexual, financial, psychological, or emotional abuse, slightly increased the risk of a baby being small for gestational age.

The Daily Nonpareil editorial board calls the University of Iowa's new scholarship program, Raise.me, "laudable for a couple reasons," including preparing high schoolers for college and not precluding enrollment at a community college.

The popularity of the University of Iowa's Jackson Pollock masterpiece Mural is an example of the continuing resurgence in popularity of the mercurial and groundbreaking 20th-century American artist.

Researchers at the University of Iowa have found that overweight and obese children are at greater risk for pedestrian injury.

When Grinnell's ASI Signage wanted to expand its market and start selling its products around the world, the UI's Institute for International Business was ready to help.

Columnist James Stewart writes that the Republican strategy of expecting a GOP president and GOP Senate to select the next Supreme Court justice is dubious at best, given current probabilities on the Iowa Electronic Markets, the Tippie College's political futures market.

Iowa swept the basketball academic awards given by the College Sports Information Directors of America. Men’s basketball player Jarrod Uthoff was named the national Academic All-America of the Year, while Ally Disterhoft won the same award for women’s basketball. No other school has won both awards in the same year.

Why are there different hominin species sprinkled throughout the islands of Southeast Asia? A study led by UI paleoanthropologist Russell Ciochon suggests that ancient humans followed nomadic prey throughout the islands as the climate changed, then became isolated and later went extinct.