Two recent NASA grants received by the University of Iowa College of Engineering illustrate the agency’s Earth-based scientific interests, as well as its desire to improve lives not just in the U.S., but around the world. The grants also reflect the college’s diverse research strengths and some surprising “only in Iowa” capabilities.

"Love Lasts Forever" is a journal created by two members of UI Children's Hospital's palliative care team for parents who have lost a child but still have memories, joys, and thoughts to express.

The planets aligned fortunately for UI adjunct professor and playwright Janet Schlapkohl, who used her family history, her own background as a special education teacher, and the knowledge of identical twin sisters who were excellent actresses to create My Sister.

UI emergency medicine specialist Hans House says severity is a sign of influenza: "When you have that high fever (102 degrees or more), and your whole body aches, and you can't even get off the couch because you're so miserable, that's probably the flu."

Professors typically use professional development leave from teaching to advance research, publish books, develop new course materials, or even launch a rocket—as UI physicist Craig Kletzing is planning to do during his assignment next fall.

UI’s first MOOC is a six-week course offered through the International Writing Program that will use video lectures, live breakout sessions, and moderated online discussion to guide participants through Whitman’s epic poem, "Song of Myself."

Loneliness has long been thought to cause people to buy things impulsively, but new research from the University of Iowa suggests that it’s not so much if you’re lonely, but the nature of the loneliness that matters.

West Liberty middle school students spent Friday at the UI for the culmination of a seven-week College of Education program that involved collaborations with all 11 UI colleges, focused on promoting STEM-based careers in rural Iowa middle schools with a large population of minority students.

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More than 100 middle school students from eastern Iowa are visiting the University of Iowa through Project HOPE, a UI College of Education initiative to promote health science professions to eighth-grade students from rural middle schools.

Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Marilynne Robinson of the UI Writers' Workshop will visit the UAE as part of a cultural exchange program, during which she will discuss creative writing with university students and discuss her work with Emirati authors and readers.

Paul Heath of the University of Iowa Small Business Development Center will provide one-on-one business consultations for start-up, expanding, or existing businesses from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 16, at the Iowa Valley Grinnell campus.