The University of Iowa Department of Public Safety is rolling out a new ride-request application for those on campus to schedule a safe ride home during the evening and early morning hours.

A new, growing group of scientists at the University of Iowa is researching how to address the storage and potential reuse of nuclear waste. Armed with grants from various federal agencies, UI faculty in chemistry, engineering, and radiology also are educating undergraduate and graduate students about the work.

Susan Gapstur, vice president of the Epidemiology Research Program of the American Cancer Society, is the third finalist for the next University of Iowa College of Public Health dean. She will visit campus March 22 and 23.

Kevin Washburn, Regents professor of law and former dean at the University of New Mexico School of Law, has been named the N. William Hines dean of the University of Iowa College of Law. He will begin on June 15.

Each year, “U.S. News & World Report” ranks professional schools in business, education, engineering, law, medicine, and nursing. Read the 2019 rankings for each respective college at the UI.

After years of hard work and dedicated study, UI medical students come together to celebrate their residency placements.

Howard Hu, founding dean of the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and Professor of Environmental Health, Epidemiology, Global Health, and Medicine at the University of Toronto, is the second candidate for the next UI College of Public Health dean. He will visit campus March 20 and 21.

Each year, senior leaders at the University of Iowa form a team for the Live Healthy Iowa 10-Week Challenge. One of their chief motivators: to elevate their well-being, which has an impact on their own lives and the UI workplace.

An estimated 6,300 Iowans will die from cancer in 2018, 18 times the number killed in auto accidents, according to a new report released today by the State Health Registry of Iowa, based in the University of Iowa College of Public Health.

Ann Scheck McAlearney, director of the health services research program and professor of family medicine at the Ohio State University College of Medicine, is the first finalist for the next University of Iowa College of Public Health dean. She will visit campus Monday and Tuesday, March 5 and 6.

Members of the media are invited to a press conference for the release of the State Health Registry of Iowa’s annual ‘Cancer in Iowa’ report. The State Health Registry of Iowa is based in the University of Iowa College of Public Health.

UI researchers are gearing up to take their orthopedic simulator on the road to train doctors and improve patient outcomes. They will also be running tests to assess how well orthopedic residents who train on the simulator do in the operating room compared to those who don’t get simulator training.