The University of Iowa School of Music will present a free concert by the UI Symphony Band and the Iowa Honor Band (composed of the state's top high school musicians) at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 16, in the Main Lounge of the Iowa Memorial Union.

Sarah Gardial took over as the dean of the University of Iowa Henry B. Tippie College of Business in July. Since then, she's been meeting with businesses and working with faculty to set a strategic plan for the college.

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is an inherited life-shortening disease that is known to affect the lungs and digestive organs. A new study by University of Iowa researchers suggests that the CF mutation also affects the nervous system and might directly cause some neural abnormalities experienced by people with CF.

A recent study by psychiatrists with the Iowa City VA Medical Center and University of Iowa Health Care finds that soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) have measurable abnormalities in the white matter of their brains when compared to returning veterans who have not experienced TBI.

A University of Iowa team showed that the amygdala is not the only gatekeeper of fear in the human mind in a paper published recently in the journal Nature Neuroscience.

The UI's Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research (CGRER) is helping faculty and graduate students learn how to effectively communicate their research. The project involves producing short videos, with CGRER staff help.

Iowa City and University of Iowa will join with activists around the world at 5 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 14, for "One Billion Rising," the largest day of action in the history of V-Day, a global activist movement to end violence against women and girls.

The University of Iowa College of Pharmacy has obtained a grant to evaluate medication usage by patients in central Iowa. The goal: Improve the rate at which patients take prescribed drugs.

Jerry Anthony, director of the UI Public Policy Center's housing and land use policy program, says that a free map was designed to make Iowa foreclosure data easily accessible and understandable.

A UI researcher has designed a computer program that allows engineers to accurately predict the role posture plays in transferring the stress of vehicle motion to bone and muscle in the head and neck.

The University of Iowa has successfully kicked off its participation in the 2013 RecycleMania tournament, the national competition in which college campuses compete over eight weeks to see who can reduce, reuse, and recycle the most on-campus waste.

John Wemmie, a UI neuroscientist, shares insights from an experiment on how SM, a woman with a rare illness that damaged her amygdala and left her unafraid, recently experienced a panic attack, which may have practical value in the study of panic attacks.