"Iowa Now Minute" is a 60-second roundup highlighting recent UI activities, research, public engagement, and campus life. Look for a new video every Thursday in Iowa Now.

University of Iowa Staff Council’s service recognition program acknowledges all professional and scientific and merit staff who have reached 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, or 50 years of continuous service. Longevity Award winners receive a certificate and letter of appreciation from the Office of the President.

You might recognize Forrest Saunders and Lauren Moss, two graduates of the University of Iowa School of Journalism and Mass Communication, who now work at different eastern Iowa television stations.

Several long-time veterans from two of eastern Iowa's largest employers—Rockwell Collins and Alliant Energy—are mentoring UI College of Engineering students, and their efforts are paying off, both for students and their eventual employers.

A team from the University of Iowa captured the top spot in a contest sponsored by The Principal Financial Group that helps one of the nation’s largest insurance companies better market its life insurance plans to a new generation.

The opening bell has rung for the 2016 Iowa Electronic Markets’ presidential and Congressional control markets that give traders the opportunity to buy and sell contracts that will predict the results of the next general election.

UI economics professor John Solow says that measuring the impact of temporary holiday retail hiring is difficult.

The University of Iowa issued a Crime Alert on Monday, Dec. 8, 2014.

The University of Iowa is working to fix the pulley system used to raise and lower the U.S. and State of Iowa flags above the Old Capitol Museum.

University of Iowa neuroscientists led by George Richerson, head of neurology in the UI Carver College of Medicine, have joined eight other research groups across the world that will work together on increasing the understanding of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP), the leading cause of death from epilepsy.

The University of Iowa’s College of Education is hosting a panel discussion with education experts designed to not only look at the broader historical and social context from which these current struggles emerge, but to also provide participants with tools, strategies and resources to create opportunities for classroom discussions.

The University of Iowa Museum of Natural History has received two new grants: $6,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and $4,300 from the State Historical Society of Iowa.The funding from the NEH’s Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions will fund upgraded storage and supports for the museum’s Artic ethnographic collections. The collections contain over 1,500...