Jordan Cohen may be retiring as University of Iowa Vice President for Research, but he has no intention of slowing down.

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the creation of the AIDS Memorial Quilt. As part of the commemoration, a team in the University of Iowa Digital Studio for the Public Humanities is creating a mobile web application, AIDS Quilt Touch.

The 11th Hour makes the expertise of the Iowa Summer Writing Festival available to the public, free of charge.

When you think of the process that enables the northern lights, think of spaghetti becoming untangled, says University of Iowa researcher Jack Scudder. He and his colleagues have reached a milestone in describing how the northern lights work by way of a process called “magnetic reconnection.”

A NASA-sponsored program will examine impacts of land use and climate chante, providing better estimates of carbon dioxide emissions in Iowa, the Midwest, and beyond.

UI faculty member John Rachow, past president of Physicians for Social Responsibility, says nuclear-emergency preparedness plans are out-of-date.

A special note to smokers needing general surgery: not only will your recovery likely take longer, but your wallet may also take a harder hit. A new study finds that hospital costs are an average 4 percent higher, or roughly $900, for general surgery patients who smoke.

UI health policy expert Keith Mueller offers his take on the Affordable Care Act and whether the health care reform legislation will be upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Leisure studies scholar David Gould comments on the difficulty Americans have finding opportunities to take their vacation time.

Anita Stineman, associate professor in the University of Iowa College of Nursing, is the winner of the 2011-2012 Collegiate Teaching Award.

Richard E. Walton, chair of endodontics at the UI College of Dentistry for 13 years, has won the Lifetime Educator Award from the American Association of Endodontists.

Archeologist Bill Whittaker comments on the practice of using dousing rods to "witch" for graves.