Death notices for current and retired UI employees. Links to online obituaries provided when available.

Alice Schoonbroodt, a UI economics professor, says it makes sense that birthrates continue to be unusually low since many Americans remain uneasy with the slow recovery from the Great Recession in 2009.

UI mascot Herky visited Roosevelt Middle School in Cedar Rapids to watch students share what they had learned during a three-day camp offered through the UI College of Education's Iowa Center for Assistive Technology Education and Research.

Chef Robert Lewis, "The Happy Diabetic," will demonstrate healthy dishes for diabetics on Aug. 17 at the Iowa State Fair. The demonstration coincides with an effort at the University of Iowa to enroll participants in a national study to identify the most effective drugs to treat type-2 diabetes.

Matthew Rizzo, a UI professor of neurology, comments on the difficulty of assessing various factors on driver safety, in a story on the impact of sleep aids and drowsy driving, which also mentions UI's National Advanced Driving Simulator as a resource used by drug companies.

University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics is using a new 3-D imaging tool called tomosynthesis to help detect breast cancer earlier, resulting in a 40 percent improvement in cancer detection rates, according to Dr. Laurie Fajardo, UI Hospitals and Clinics professor of radiology.

African-American women, who have long complained of the negative impact of predatory lending, appear to be coveted candidates when it comes to getting loans, according to a study by researchers at the University of Iowa.

Capsule summaries of several UI researchers who will present their work at the American Sociological Association's annual meeting in New York, which runs from Aug. 10-13.

Lenders have high impressions of African-American females and are apt to loan them as much money as white males, according to a new study by University of Iowa sociologist Sarah Harkness. Conversely, loan applications from African-American males and white females are judged more strictly. Stereotypes about race, gender, work history, education and other factors shaped lenders' attitudes. Harkness...

The painting "Spheres of Privilege" is among the works by artist and UI associate professor Susan Chrysler White that will be on display at the Sioux City Art Center starting Saturday, Aug. 10.

Steve Wynn, chairman and chief executive officer of Wynn Resorts, Limited, has donated $25 million to the UI to accelerate the search for cures for rare eye diseases, including the one that hampers his own vision.

The construction of dams and other manmade structures introduced over the years has made it difficult if not impossible to link frequent flooding in Texas to climate change.