Contract prices are down for Barack Obama and up for Mitt Romney on the Iowa Electronic Markets.

University of Iowa scientists are digging up a prehistoric mammoth discovered on a farm near Oskaloosa.

A mini-Carnaval at 4:30 p.m., Friday, June 8, outside the University of Iowa Theatre Building will feature music, dance, masks, and puppets, along with stilt-walkers from Canada's Swizzlestick Theatre.

The economic crisis in Europe has reached a point where even booming economies in Brazil, Russia, India, and China are slowing down. A University of Iowa expert is not hopeful for a quick end.

As dean of the University of Iowa Tippie College of Business, Curt Hunter revamped the MBA.

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John Rachow, past president of Physicians for Social Responsibility, says nuclear-emergency preparedness plans are out-of-date.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