Michael Abràmoff, a University of Iowa physician and scientist who successfully developed new technology to enhance the detection of eye disease in people affected by diabetes, will participate in two Congressional briefings on Wednesday, Oct. 25.

UI staff member Stephanie Preschel discovered useful techniques to deal with the chaos of everyday life through a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction course. Learn more about her experience—and how liveWELL was able to assist—on Iowa Now.

University of Iowa researchers have found that certain roundworms can preemptively prepare a defense system that protects their cells from damage. The finding could lead to new treatments for neurodegenerative diseases in humans caused by damaged cells.

After an extensive national search, the University of Iowa has named J. Brooks Jackson vice president for medical affairs and dean of the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine.

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

The Carver Medical Device Design Laboratory is outfitted with the same state-of-the-art technology that students will use in future jobs in commercial labs. College of Engineering officials say the experience of working in the lab will give students an edge in the job market.

The UI’s fifth annual We Are Phil campaign encourages faculty and staff to donate directly to projects, scholarships, and initiatives sponsored by their colleagues. Nine projects are featured in a special GOLDrush-powered We Are Phil page.

UI archivist David McCartney invites readers to go back in time—about five decades—with a new web project from UI Libraries. “Uptight and Laid-Back: Iowa City in the 1960s” is an online collection that includes maps, images, videos, sound recordings, and much more that depicts campus life in the ’60s.

Beijing-based photojournalist Sean Gallagher spoke with UI journalism and public health students as the first visitor in the university’s partnership with the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting. Gallagher’s work focuses on the impact climate change is having on people in Asia.

Iowa’s environmental health is monitored by limnologists, scientists who test water quality and sample fish and insect populations in their search for small changes that could indicate larger trends in the ecosystem.

Members of the University of Iowa community were honored at the UI’s annual Faculty and Staff Awards Banquet on Oct. 10, sponsored by the Office of the Provost and the Office of the Vice President for Human Resources.

From performances by the Iowa Spirit Squad and Alumni Band to homecoming royalty cruising in Corvettes, Hawkeye pride was on display at the 2017 homecoming parade and game. Check out a gallery of the festivities that led up to Iowa’s victory over Illinois.