Noaquia Callahan, graduate teaching assistant in the Department of History, has won a 2014 research award from the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics from Iowa State University.

Daryl Cameron, assistant professor in the Department of Psychology, has received a three-year National Science Foundation grant. The award amount is $336,832, and will be used for his research, “Expanding the Limits of Compassion: A Motivated Emotion Regulation Account of Compassion Collapse.” Results from this study will explain why people often lack compassionate emotion and behavior in response...

There are many things to grumble about at this time of year: frigid temperatures, snowy roads, and early sunsets, to name a few. But one can hardly argue with the beauty of the bald eagle.

The University of Iowa will offer a Master of Science program in Business Analytics starting in the fall, adding another educational component for Iowans in the fast growing field of data analytics.

The Iowa Board of Regents has approved a University of Iowa Health Care request to purchase property for a new patient care facility in the Iowa River Landing development in Coralville.

Iowa City Heart Center, P.C., a highly regarded cardiology group serving eastern Iowa patients and families since 1987, will join University of Iowa Health Care, effective April 30.

The University of Iowa will begin offering programming in July 2016 in Des Moines at the property now occupied by the AIB College of Business. President Sally Mason outlined the timeline at the Iowa Board of Regents meeting in Cedar Falls.

Zadok Nampala earned his master's degree in social work from the University of Iowa before becoming the international student adviser at North Iowa Area Community College.

The Iowa Board of Regents has announced the composition of the University of Iowa Presidential Search and Screen Committee. The 21-person-committee will include nine representatives from the UI faculty and three members of the Board of Regents.

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UI Children's Hospital has a nationally acclaimed team of doctors and nurses who treat children with arrhythmias, host an annual conference for these patients and their families, and are leading participants in studies. Amanda Kurovski of Des Moines is one such young person who has benefited. She has an implantable cardioverter defibrillator to manage an arrhythmia, diagnosed when she was 15.

A new University of Iowa study finds pigeons can categorize 128 photographs into 16 categories of natural and manmade objects, a skill researchers say is similar to the mechanism children use to learn words.