Sometimes, researchers need a helping hand to close the distance between a brilliant idea and a commercially viable product, service, or business. That’s where the University of Iowa’s GAP Funding Program comes in.

Jo M. Hendrickson, of the College of Education, published “Engagement among Students with Intellectual Disabilities and First Year Students: A Comparison” in May.

Kathy L Schuh, of the College of Education, published “The Semiotics of Monk Rehearsals: A Weaving of Two Texts” in May. The chapter was published in the International Handbook of Semiotics. Schuh is an associate professor in the Department of Psychological and Quantitative Foundations in the College of Education at the University of Iowa.

Allison L. Bruhn and Erica Kaldenberg, of the College of Education, published “Examining the Effects of Functional Assessment-Based Interventions With High School Students” in May.

Allison L. Bruhn, of the College of Education, published “Using a Changing-Criterion Design to Evaluate the Effects of Check-in/Check-Out With Goal Modification” in May.

For the first time since it was immersed in floodwater seven years ago, the University of Iowa Memorial Union ground floor will be open to the public. University and local officials will commemorate the re-opening of the 83,000-square-foot space with a ribbon-cutting ceremony followed by self-guided tours on June 3.

A miniature version of the University of Iowa’s advanced driving simulator will participate in a clinical trial later this year to assess a patient’s driving ability after cataract surgery.

A multi-center study led by infection control experts with UI Health Care finds that implementing a series of simple interventions before surgery can reduce the rate of surgical-site infections by up to 40 percent.

As the UI moves forward with the Iowa Board of Regents’ TIER project, campus leaders are committed to keeping colleagues informed. Here are the latest developments across business cases.

Radar technology from the UI will help a new NASA mission look for the building blocks of life on a distant moon.

A UI study shows that chronic exposure to a toxin made by staph bacteria produces in rabbits the hallmark symptoms of Type 2 diabetes, including insulin resistance and glucose intolerance. The findings suggest that eliminating staph bacteria or neutralizing the toxins might have potential for preventing or treating the disease.

UI Children's Hospital is home to Iowa's only nationally ranked neonatology program—reassuring news for a Cedar Rapids family.