A new study led by the University of Iowa shows swine farmers are six times more likely to be carriers of staph bacteria, including the MRSA strain, than others. Results appear online in the journal "Clinical Infectious Diseases."

The University of Iowa has been working for years to find a cure for preeclampsia. That ongoing research has led the university to a spot in a four-center Strategically Focused Network on Hypertension created by the American Heart Association (AHA).

A team of University of Iowa students has written the first commercial real estate market analysis for Johnson County in four years, and the report finds the local market to be healthy and thriving.

Hubble turns 25, and University of Iowa researchers share some of the pictures they've been able to snap in the telescope's lifetime.

The University of Iowa is set to host experts and researchers from around the world as part of the 2015 Provost’s Global Forum, “The Arab Spring in a Global Context.”

For more than 40 years, the University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts has presented an annual festival centered on producing, reading, and analyzing new scripts from the Iowa Playwrights Workshop. Iowa New Play Festival 2015 will take place at the UI Theatre Building May 4-9.

Tapping the highly specialized expertise of a brain research lab at the University of Iowa, researchers have taken advantage of a rare opportunity to record directly from the brain of a person with tinnitus in order to find the brain networks responsible for this often debilitating condition.

Following are highlights from the Iowa Board of Regents meeting Thursday, April 23, at the School for the Deaf in Council Bluffs.

There’s no other day during the school year when philanthropy is more visible on the University of Iowa campus than on Phil’s Day, Thursday, April 30. The fourth annual Phil's Day marks—literally—the impact of private gifts on UI facilities, programs, and people.

Beginning fall 2016, the University of Iowa will offer bachelor’s degrees in public health, the first Board of Regents institution to offer an undergraduate major in the field. The degree program is expected to help meet Iowa’s need for public health trained professionals who can directly support citizens’ health.

This week on Iowa Now Minute features The Bachelor, a shark, and a top 10 draft pick.

In March the University of Iowa Press published "A Wrestling Life: The Inspiring Stories of Dan Gable." The book has flown off the shelves and was just added to "The New York Times" Best Sellers list for sports books, one of the prominent bestseller lists in the United States.