Corrine Peek-Asa, director of the UI Injury Prevention Research Center, praises an online program for teen drivers and their parents; study results show those teens spend more time behind the wheel and fail fewer driving tests compared to their peers using a standard state-issued manual.

Mark Blumberg, F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychology, has been honored with a MERIT Award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, becoming only the second faculty member in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to ever receive this honor.

David Hensley, the director of the University of Iowa's John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center, said the belief that "you can do it better" pushes serial entrepreneurs to keep on trying.

For those who were not able to attend or watch the livestream of the June 18 kickoff of Deloitte Consulting's Phase 2 of the Iowa Board of Regents' Rising to the Next TIER (a Transparent, Inclusive Efficiency Review) program, you can view a recorded version on the UI's TIER website.

Death notices for current and retired UI employees. Links to online obituaries provided when available.

UI physician Christopher Buresh, who was awarded the 2014 Individual Governor's Volunteer award, visits Haiti every three months or so carrying out the work of the organization he founded, Community Health Initiative-Haiti.

The Johnson County Sexual Assault Response Team (JCSART) Fund—which was established last fall by local health-care providers and other generous donors with gifts made through the University of Iowa Foundation—helps support the JCSART, one of many resources that can help lessen trauma for sexual assault victims and survivors.

UI law professor Jason Rantanen explains that it was an Iowa law alumnus who came up with the legal strategy of canceling the Federal Trademark for the NFL's Washington Redskins.

This week the UI Wendell Johnson Speech and Hearing Clinic is hosting its annual camp for children who stutter, during which participants receive five hours of group and individual therapy a day for nine days—far more intensive than anything they receive while in school.

In older adults, an excess of the stress hormone cortisol has been linked to increased short-term memory loss—that's according to a new study by researchers at the University of Iowa.

You might assume it was the night sky draped over his family’s farm that inspired the great UI astrophysicist Don Gurnett, but in fact it was his dad—a farmer who never went to high school—who sparked in his only child a curiosity for how things work.

An online library of interactive flood inundation maps for the Cedar River, developed by the Iowa Flood Center at the University of Iowa, allows users to adjust the settings of the maps based on water levels, current and predicted, as well as historical crests to create models of different flooding scenarios.