Former Congressman Jim Leach, also a visiting professor in the UI College of Law, will present “Bridging Cultures: the Heart of the Fulbright Program” at an upcoming UI event celebrating the legacy of Fulbright programs at the university.

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development have established a Humanities Advisory Board to advise them on humanities issues, stimulate collaboration among humanities faculty, leverage resources in support of humanities scholarship, and identify areas of interdisciplinary research.

New University Librarian John Culshaw takes a gander at predicting what current library essentials might just go the way of card catalogs and rubber date stamps by the time current students reach milestone reunions.

The number of "invasive" MRSA cases—severe infections that typically require hospitalization, and can be fatal—has declined significantly in the United States.

Dr. Dan Diekema, director of the Division of Infectious Disease for University of Iowa Health Care, said overuse of antibiotics is a huge problem in the U.S., one that’s led to bacteria that can resist even the toughest drugs.

The University of Iowa School of Music will present a jam session by jazz faculty members from 8 to 10 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 5, at George’s, 312 E. Market St. in downtown Iowa City. The performance, part of a monthly series, is free and open to the public.

The University of Iowa School of Music will present a jam session by jazz faculty members from 8 to 10 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 1, at George’s, 312 E. Market St. in downtown Iowa City. The performance, part of a monthly series, is free and open to the public.

Scientists and people of faith, and those who are both, can learn a lot from one another about the incredible universe we all live in.

Law school enrollment is declining nationwide, affecting the UI College of Law this fall: “Given the national trend, we knew it was coming, and our plan for responding to it was to maintain the high quality of the class rather than its size,” says Dean Gail Agrawal.

Clearly, being on the frontier of space research still excites Donald Gurnett, who’s been a professor at the UI since 1965 and helped announce the latest milestone in space exploration last week.

A new study led by Thomas Schnell, of the UI Operator Performance Laboratory, is investigating whether automation is making pilots lazy in the cockpit; researchers are testing their reaction times in an emergency.

George Weiner, M.D., director of the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at the UI, was a co-author of the American Association for Cancer Research’s third annual Cancer Progress Report, which illustrates how research, along with clinical insight, have improved prevention, detection, diagnosis, and treatment for cancer.