Iowa’s three Regents universities are making faculty hires, launching studies, partnering with community colleges, and building industry partnerships—all in a $22 million effort to boost the state’s research capacity in renewable energy and energy utilization. The benefits to Iowa could be many: research grants, new technologies, startup companies, educational opportunities and workforce...

Josipa Roksa, co-author of "Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on Campuses," suggests college students may not be learning much during their years on campus. Roksa will speak about her book at the University of Iowa College of Education Thursday, Feb. 7, from 10 to 11:30 a.m. in Jones Commons, room N300 Lindquist Center.

James Potash, head of the Department of Psychiatry in UI Hospitals and Clinics, and John Hosp, chair of the Department of Teaching and Learning in the UI's College of Education, were two of more than a dozen experts who participated in a recent mental health roundtable discussion.

The University of Iowa has created a map showing foreclosures, county by county, spanning the recession. The data are made available for the first time free to Iowans.

A study led by UI researchers discovered that best friends might play the biggest role in influencing when teens have their first sip of alcohol.

Taking down one of four parking ramps in preparation for a new Children's Hospital has meant many changes in parking for both patients and staff at UI Hospitals and Clinics.

On any given day, faculty members may be writing a textbook, editing a journal, or mulling over a thought that hasn't made it into their written research yet. The following are glimpses into the current thoughts of six Tippie College faculty members.

Innovative research on northeast Iowa's Turkey River may herald a breakthrough in state efforts to mitigate future flood damage, thanks to the Iowa Flood Center collaborating with the Turkey River Watershed Management Authority.

Congress is showing a frustrating inability to figure out how to deal with federal spending cuts, but their behavior may not be so incomprehensible if you look at them as a bunch of people with bad teeth who need dental work.

The Get to Know series asks University of Iowa faculty and staff a few questions about their work and their outside interests. Today we visit with Mary Cohen, who administers the music education program.

UI lecturer David Gould says downtown Las Vegas is the coolest sandbox he could imagine playing in, referring to a new course he is teaching, Reimagining Downtown, with support from Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh, that will culminate in a hands-on project for UI students in Vegas.

David Duys, an associate professor of rehabilitation and counselor education in the UI College of Education, discusses some of the significant changes in middle childhood development on Iowa Public Radio's Talk of Iowa with host Charity Nebbe.