As the UI College of Education's Belin-Blank Center celebrates its 25th anniversary this July, center director and Sioux City native Susan Assouline shares her own serendipitous learning journey that brought her to the field of gifted education and talent development at the internationally renowned center.

UI professor and author Marilynne Robinson will receive the National Humanities Medal for 2012 in ceremonies at the White House next week.

A new company that creates interactive 3D anatomical models was founded in 2006 by UI faculty member Karim Malek.

At just past the midpoint of its current comprehensive fundraising campaign timeline, the UI has surpassed the total dollar amount achieved in its previous campaign

Dr. Mark Dyken, director of the UI's Sleep Disorders Clinic, says people feel more anxious, restless, irritable, and less satisfied when they experience sleep deficiency, impacting everything from careers to relationships.

UI Belin-Blank Center Director Susan Assouline poses the question of whether the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics and Next Generation Science Standards meet the needs of Iowa’s highly capable students in a guest column. (Note: A paid subscription may be required.)

David Elliott, professor and division director of gastroenterology at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, says more doctors today are able to recognize and diagnose celiac disease using a screening test that wasn't previously available.

Nicholas Colangelo, interim dean of the University of Iowa College of Education and founder of the college's Connie Belin and Jacqueline N. Blank International Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development, has earned the International Award for Research from the World Council for Gifted and Talented Children, Inc.

Just five years after flooding on the Iowa River damaged more than 20 structures at the University of Iowa, high-water forecasts in May forced the university to close buildings, put up seven miles’ worth of emergency flood walls, and cancel or reschedule some events.

UI President Sally Mason, who is also the Big Ten Council of Presidents/Chancellors head, says she is excited by the possibilities of a collaboration between Big Ten and Ivy League institutions to continue close examination of the effects of head injuries in athletics.

University staff, faculty, students, and alumni are accomplishing great things every day. See who’s making news with awards, publications, promotion and tenure, and more.

Erika Lawrence, UI associate professor of psychology, says that listening can be more effective than giving advice based on a series of six studies conducted at the UI in 2009 as part of a story on the perils of spouses giving each other too much advice.