Before Mason Shepherd was born, his mother, Cindy, went in for her 20-week ultrasound where doctors discovered that her son had stopped growing. The Shepherds were transferred to UI Children’s Hospital for genetic testing, and Mason was diagnosed with Russell-Silver syndrome, a disorder characterized by slow growth before and after birth.

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A series of convincing scams is tricking UI email users into providing personal information to data thieves. The IT security office urges the campus to exercise caution and provides tips on how to avoid being scammed.

University of Iowa law professor Lea VanderVelde worked with a set of around 300 antebellum civil cases of slaves suing their masters for their freedom in the courts in St. Louis while writing her forthcoming book, "Redemption Songs: Courtroom Stories of Slavery."

The University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts will produce a new adaptation of Molière’s "The Imaginary Invalid" that will include new music and choreography from members of the artistic team. The production will open at 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 14, in the David Thayer Theatre of the UI Theatre Building.

Building urban wetlands could help to reduce nitrogen and phosphorous run off, UI geoscientist Arthur Bettis says: “It’s one prong of a multi-pronged approach to reducing the large nutrient load being exported from the upper Midwest.”

How should the Cold War be memorialized? This question forms the backbone of the Obermann Interdisciplinary Research Grant project of Sarah Kanouse in UI art and art history and Shiloh Kruper in geography at Georgetown University.

Making fat cells immortal might seem like a bad idea to most people, but for a team of University of Iowa scientists it was the ideal way to study how the interaction between bacteria and fat cells might contribute to diabetes.

First-year students in the Tippie College of Business learned the basics of business dining at an etiquette dinner Oct. 17 at the University of Iowa. Not only does this make students better dining partners, but more important, it could give them a competitive edge in the business world when they are trying to land a future internship or job.

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The University of Iowa School of Music will present a free jazz recital by the UI Latin Jazz Ensemble at 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 10, in Riverside Recital Hall on the UI campus. The recital will feature music from composers Rafael Dos Santos (Brazilian pianist/educator and former UI jazz graduate student), Victor Mendoza, Ray Vega, and others.

Starting this fall, UI Sports Medicine researchers, in collaboration with several regional flag and tackle football leagues, will conduct a study to document and compare rates of all injuries, including concussions, among youth players.