Martin Gallardo wanted to make dietary changes, and he wanted to stick to them. Through liveWELL’s health coach service, he found what he was looking for, and he wants to share his experiences with fellow UI faculty and staff.

The University of Iowa has a new sandbox—and it’s used to explain gravity. Undergraduates in the Department of Physics and Astronomy designed and built an augmented-reality sandbox where users can design their own universe and then watch how gravity affects an object as it travels through the imagined environment.

UI archivist David McCartney discusses the significance of papers donated to the University of Iowa by civil rights advocate Eric Morton who, along with a UI student, worked to register African Americans to vote in the 1960s. Several documents from the collections are on display at the Coralville Public Library.

The 45-year-old former Marine decided six years ago to get a college degree. After transferring from a community college to the University of Iowa, the Iowa native is on track to earn a Bachelor of Science degree in geosciences in May 2019.

A University of Iowa initiative called Tiny Trash encourages recycling and reduces waste on campus. More than 2,000 faculty and staff in 18 buildings have joined the effort, which ties into the UI’s goal to divert 60 percent of campus-generated waste to recycling by the year 2020.

Mark Wiesner has spent decades studying the potentially harmful effects of manufactured nanomaterials on the environment. His passion for protecting the planet was nurtured at the University of Iowa College of Engineering, where he worked alongside mentors who introduced him to environmental fieldwork and research.

Death notices for current and retired UI employees. Links to online obituaries provided when available.

The number of children in the United States diagnosed with autism may be significantly higher than previously thought, information that could lead to a reconsideration of how health care resources are allocated, according to a new University of Iowa analysis published in the “Journal of the American Medical Association” (“JAMA”).

The Iowa Neuroscience Institute is primed to make discoveries about humans’ most complex organ—and end debilitating diseases.

The University of Iowa has identified and reported to the state unauthorized transactions by a faculty member.

Joel Bolger graduated from the UI College of Law in 1978 and later took his first job in Alaska as a volunteer attorney. Now, after years of varied legal practice, he’s the only judge to have been appointed to all four levels of the Alaska court system.

Engineering students test their design and problem-solving abilities with a real-world waste water improvement project in Lake Delhi, a small Iowa community that was hit hard by flooding in 2010.