The University of Iowa Museum of Art has been without a building since the flood of 2008. However, as officials await a new structure, the museum staff has kept UIMA relevant through outreach and lending works of art to other museums, bringing its collection to Iowa and the world.

Julie Zerwic, executive associate dean of the College of Nursing at the University of Illinois at Chicago, has been named the new dean of the UI College of Nursing.

The number of suicides among farmers and farmworkers in the United States has remained stubbornly high since the end of the 1980s farm crisis, much higher than workers in many other industries, according to a new study from the University of Iowa.

A UI study shows that a unique all-female lineage of salamander equally balances genes from the males of three other salamander species. The findings highlight the bizarre ways some animals reproduce in order to preserve their species. The results were published in “Genome Biology and Evolution.”

Doug True, the University of Iowa’s former senior vice president for finance and operations and treasurer, will serve as the interim associate vice president and chief financial officer for University of Iowa Health Care, effective June 30, 2017, when current CFO Ken Fisher will retire.

The Board of Regents, State of Iowa, voted to raise tuition at the UI by 3 percent for resident undergraduates.

Semifinalist candidates for the UI’s VP for medical affairs will interview in July.

At the University of Iowa, undergraduate students work side by side with researchers to create a digital human being, design virtual car trips for an advanced driving simulator, and more. Hands-on tech experiences like these allow students to grow intellectually and prepare for their career after college.

The University of Iowa has expanded Two-Step Login to web-based applications, including MAUI, ICON, and MyUI, and campus cyber-security experts advise all UI faculty, staff, and students to enable the feature for these applications.

Even simple cell phone conversations can cause distracted driving. Researchers have found listening on the phone while driving creates a lag in the mind as it extracts itself from one task before fixing attention on another.

University of Iowa Shared Governance leaders have chosen 14 representatives to serve on a committee charged with selecting one or more outside consulting firms to conduct an external review of university employment practices.

Lori Pedelty, UI alumna and CEO of Pedelty Enterprises, recently led a workshop at the University of Iowa’s 2017 Tippie Women Summit. “Iowa Now” sat down with Pedelty to talk about how her experience at the UI influenced her and what the phrase “Always a Hawkeye” means to her.