A University of Iowa study finds the threat of flooding is growing in the northern half of the United States and declining in the South. The findings are based on water-height measurements at 2,042 stream and rivers, compared to NASA data showing the amount of water stored in the ground.

Photographers in the University of Iowa’s Office of Strategic Communication submitted a gallery of some of their favorite work from 2016.

Death notices for current and retired University of Iowa employees. Links to online obituaries provided when available.

W-2 forms for 2016 are not currently on the Employee Self Service website, but if you want them as soon as they are available, sign up to receive your W-2 electronically.

About 1,500 University of Iowa students received their degrees at fall 2016 commencement ceremonies Dec. 16–18. “Iowa Now” captured several celebratory moments at the festivities.

The UI College of Public Health has awarded grants to seven organizations in five Iowa cities that strengthen community-development initiatives aimed at improving public health.

A University of Iowa study has shown that stimulation to replace missing brain waves improves cognition in mice lacking dopamine, raising the possibility of using frequency-specific brain stimulation to improve problems caused by Parkinson’s disease.

As the fall semester comes to an end, President Harreld encourages members of the University of Iowa community to reach out to those in need, and to begin next semester with a renewed sense of purpose.

The University Transportation Center grant will help fund an interdisciplinary center, Safety Research Using Simulation (SAFER-SIM), intended to address the DOT’s research priority of promoting safety.

This year’s Outback Bowl–bound Hawkeye football team plays the muse for a pair of University of Iowa art students.

Kirsten Stoner, this year’s Three Minute Thesis competition winner, wants to improve outcomes for patients with cervical myelopathy. Stoner and six other 3MT competitors got a boost from a graduate seminar in communicating research.

Research from the University of Iowa and the University of California at Davis finds that two different drugs—a beta blocker and an antidepressant—might both have potential for preventing or treating heart failure associated with diabetes by blocking an insulin signaling pathway in heart muscle.