Telecommuters actually work more overtime than their office-bound colleagues, says Mary Noonan, UI associate professor in sociology, in a story on how Yahoo's chief executive has decreed that workers must start showing up at the office.

Victoria Steelman, a UI assistant professor of nursing and author of a recent study on retained surgical items, comments on tracking systems that have been approved by the FDA to help cut down the risk of sponges being left in patients after surgery.

Jeffrey Murray has been awarded a $450,000, three-year grant that will allow him to build on his past discoveries in the area of premature birth with the goal of improving health care providers’ ability to predict which women are at high risk of delivering their baby too soon.

H.S. Udaykumar and Meena Khandelwal will discuss their efforts to trace the linkages among forests, energy, gender relations, health, consumption, and culture, and between the local and global processes at 4 p.m. Wednesday, March 13 at the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, 111 Church St.

UI psychologist Jerry Suls was part of a research team that looked at how people get on with their lives following harrowing experiences after he was unscathed when a tornado hit downtown Iowa City in 2006.

Eli Perencevich, a UI professor and infectious-disease doctor, says he is concerned that there aren't a lot of methods in the tool kit that are significantly effective in curbing the spread of certain bacteria-resistant infections.

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

Teresa Mangum, director of the UI's Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, recruited scholars to "show and tell" their research at the inaugural Iowa Humanities Festival this Saturday at Salisbury House & Gardens in Des Moines. (Note: A paid subscription may be required.)

"Iowa Literaria," the electronic journal of the MFA in Spanish Creative Writing program at the University of Iowa, is online as of Tuesday, Feb. 26.

The majority of women who participated in a new University of Iowa study saw their feet grow during pregnancy.

David Perlmutter, director of the UI School of Journalism and Mass Communication, shares how to avoid bad advice from colleagues as part of his "Career Confidential" advice column for The Chronicle.

The Advanced Manufacturing Technology (AMTech) group at the University of Iowa is engaged in a variety of novel manufacturing activities that include the goal of creating a functioning human organ some 10 or 15 years from now.