The UI Public Policy Center has received $17.2 million in grants to conduct a first-of-its-kind survey on vehicle safety, launch a national education campaign, and develop new technologies to help prevent some crashes.

Sue Curry, dean of the UI College of Public Health, cautions against the "rush to medicalize social conditions...let's not blindly accept a cultural norm that the best solutions to conditions of living come from medications."

The University of Iowa has entered RecycleMania 2014, a race to recycle the most and waste the least.

The University of Iowa School of Music will present a free performance by John McGrosso, first violinist of the Arianna String Quartet, and Réne Lecuona, UI professor of piano, at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 16, in Riverside Recital Hall on the UI campus.

Kevin and Cindy Spencer are renowned magicians who not only present amazing performances, but also share their craft in a variety of therapeutic settings. The University of Iowa’s Hancher will present Spencers—Theatre of Illusion at the Englert Theatre on Sunday, Feb. 16. at 3 p.m.

After each of the eight football victories earned by the University of Iowa this season, head coach Kirk Ferentz was quick to credit a team effort. That extends to Dr. Ned Amendola, a silent contributor who does most of his "coaching" behind the scenes.

An examination of predicted societal advances that never came to pass includes a shorter work week; in fact, the opposite has happened, notes UI professor Ben Hunnicutt, “Americans are working about five weeks a year longer than they did in 1976."

The University of Iowa Public Policy Center has received three grants totaling $17.2 million to fund automotive safety research and the development and implementation of a national education campaign to help drivers understand the safety systems in their vehicles.

Wilfrid Nixon, a civil engineer who studies winter road management at the University of Iowa, estimated that 20 percent of state, county, and local highway departments that plow snow have begun using beet juice or a similar product for road deicing over the last decade.

The Martin Luther King Jr. Research Symposium will highlight 11 College of Education student poster projects, and Philip Kutzko, a professor in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Department of Mathematics, will give the keynote address entitled “Becoming America: Dr. King’s Beloved Community,” Friday, Feb. 7.

UI professor Ingo Titze and colleagues studied the accuracy and effectiveness of voice voting, concluding that this type of vote is extremely unreliable and that even just one boisterous participant can distort the perceptions of a judge.

As heart disease continues to be one of the major causes of death in Iowa, UI Health Alliance has joined with a team of health-care officials throughout the state to offer affordable mobile heart screenings to detect heart disease and stroke.