UI researchers and clinicians talk about advances for treating age-related macular degeneration.

David D. Permutter and David Dowling, director and assistant director, respectively, for the UI School of Journalism and Mass Communication, write how the demand for in-depth stories can promote a return to the humanitarian origins of journalism.

The university’s innovative and award-winning Energy Control Center has realized more than $500,000 in energy savings and helped reduce energy consumption to meet our 2020 Vision, which is to hold energy consumption at 2010 levels, irrespective of campus growth.

Read how heart attack survivor Brad Smith of Coralville and many other patients enroll in CHAMPS (Cardiovascular Health, Assessment, Management, and Prevention Service) through the UI Heart and Vascular Center to improve their heart health and prevent future problems.

Leaders of Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Iowa have named three researchers as recipients of the second round of the 2012 American Cancer Society seed grant awards.

In recognition of his worldwide reputation as a respected teacher and scholar of international human rights, Burns Weston, founding director of the University of Iowa Center for Human Rights, was recently awarded the Courage of Conviction award.

A University of Iowa team of more than 30 researchers from five different colleges has been named a finalist and awarded $5,000 in a competition that challenged international research teams to provide the best interpretation and communication of DNA sequencing results for three children with rare, undiagnosed genetic diseases.

Samuel Becker, namesake of the UI's Samuel L. Becker Communication Studies Building, died today, Thursday, Nov. 8. He was 89.

UI political science professor Tim Hagle says he believes gay marriage is safe for the foreseeable future after Iowa voters decided to retain a state Supreme Court justice who participated in the landmark 2009 ruling that made Iowa the first Midwestern state to allow gay marriage.

University of Iowa political science professor Cary Covington says third-party victories in Maine and Vermont may have been idiosyncratic, having more to do with the personal popularity of the candidates.

Adam Dupuy is one of 57 researchers in the United States to receive a "Provocative Questions" grant from the National Cancer Institute. He will use the funding to develop new tools to help identify genes that lead to cancer.

The Iowa Academy of Education inducted Susan Assouline and Don Yarbrough, professors in the University of Iowa College of Education’s Psychological and Quantitative Foundations Department, as new members for making significant scholarly contributions to the field of education.