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.

New University of Iowa research suggests that using heart size rather than body weight when matching heart donors and recipients would produce better outcomes.

Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and the University of Iowa have found that a heart's size—and not the donor's gender—can lead to better outcomes for the recipient in heart transplantations.

Members of the media are invited to cover a field trip with more than 100 middle school students from West Liberty, Iowa on the University of Iowa campus through the UI College of Education's Project HOPE (Healthcare, Occupations, Preparation, and Exploration) Friday, Jan. 10.

The UI also has a stalking awareness campaign planned for this spring, with the goal of better educating people on what stalking can look like and how to avoid becoming a victim.