Pediatricians have a long list of things they're supposed to ask about during visits, and tobacco intervention should be a high priority, says Sue Curry, dean of the University of Iowa College of Public Health.

UI College of Public Health Dean Sue Curry, a member of a national task force focused on preventing children from smoking, talks about ways doctors can intervene with young patients.

The University of Iowa has received a STARS gold rating in recognition of its sustainability achievements from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education.

University of Iowa Pharmaceuticals (UIP) was recently featured in a newscast about Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a genetic disease that affects approximately one in 3,500 boys. UIP has a contract with Halo Therapeutics to manufacture HT100, a potential therapy for Duchenne.

More than 1.4 million carloads of goods and commodities were shipped across the country in rail cars during the month of July. “More moving is a reflection of more consumption,” says Anne Campbell, an associate professor of management sciences at the University of Iowa.

UI President Sally Mason extends a special welcome to students and the whole university community.

Harilaos Stecopoulos, associate professor in the Department of English in the University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, will succeed Russell Scott Valentino as editor of "The Iowa Review" this fall.

UI President Sally Mason and Vice President of Research and Economic Development, Daniel Reed, spoke with the Quad-City Times editorial board, describing a campus eager to seek out new partnerships, and capitalize on its own discoveries and achievements.

The growing number of international students, particularly students from China, at the University of Iowa has prompted the Tippie College of Business to offer instruction for its faculty that will help them better pronounce Chinese students names.

Sometimes everything that is old is new again. That certainly could be said about certain innovative teaching strategies that two University of Iowa College of Engineering professors are implementing in their classrooms.

The new Hancher season features music, dance, theater, and family events as the University of Iowa's performing arts presenter continues to connect artists and audiences.

Entrepreneurship education has become a “hot” area of focus that is now expected in most MBA programs and is primarily focused on experiential, rather than theoretical learning, said Sarah Gardial, dean of the UI Tippie College of Business.