After graduating from the University of Iowa with a degree in political science, George Peterson’s journey led him to become the first director of dive programs at California’s Monterey Bay Aquarium.

Justin Torres arrived at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop with a collection of fictional stories based on his childhood in Upstate New York. He graduated in 2010 with a manuscript that would be published a year later as “We the Animals” and provide the basis of a critically acclaimed film.

When three engineering students approached Mike Rhinehart in the spring about planting a pollinator garden for a sustainability class project, the UI landscaper knew just what to do.

Injuries from falling cause a significant number of deaths among older Iowans, and the University of Iowa has partnered with a Des Moines–based subsidiary of Mercy Health Network on a project to reduce the number of falls.

Shehroze Farooqi studies internet security and privacy, with a special interest in Facebook and Twitter. Last year, a study he co-authored about fake “likes” on Facebook garnered international praise. Today, he’s focused on exposing fake accounts on Twitter, a topic that is of increasing interest to lawmakers.

Researchers in neuroscience, biomedical engineering, pharmaceutical sciences, and nanofabrication combined their expertise to create a clot-less stent to help people who suffer from brain aneurysms, which can cause massive hemorrhaging, stroke, and sometimes death.

A revamped Peer Advisors for Veteran Education (PAVE) program assists military-affiliated students as they navigate their university experience.

University of Iowa researchers are studying megathrust earthquakes, the largest and generally most destructive seismic events on Earth. Funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and led by Bill Barnhart in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, the researchers will map the megathrust quake that struck Nepal in 2015.

University of Iowa nurse Michelle Nagle worked with a liveWELL health coach for months ahead of a trip to Rome. Through weight-management tactics and personal training, she lost weight and was able to enjoy the trip in clothes she bought specifically for the vacation.

An initiative launched in part from the UI College of Public Health is a forum for farmers who are injured on the job to tell their stories in hopes of encouraging other farmers to be more careful in their work and reduce agriculture-related injuries.

The University of Iowa is ranked 38th in the latest rankings of the nation’s best public universities published by "U.S. News & World Report."

Professor John D'Agata's book, "The Lifespan of a Fact," about the line between fact and fiction, will find life under the bright lights as a stage adaptation.