Like his father and grandfather before him, Robert Morris dreamed of becoming a lawyer. But after graduating from the University of Iowa with a degree in political science, Morris yearned for a career that would satisfy his sense of adventure and love for film.

A group of Roosevelt Middle School students in Cedar Rapids will have a unique audience when they demonstrate what they’ve learned at a three-day assistive technology camp this week. The camp culminates Wednesday, Aug. 14, with a visit from Herky.

Everyone knows Iowa is the Hawkeye State. That could not be more noticeable than at the Iowa State Fair, where Hawkeye sightings are almost as common as food on a stick and large farm animals.

Capsule summaries of several UI researchers who will present their work at the American Sociological Association's annual meeting in New York, which runs from Aug. 10-13.

Lenders have high impressions of African-American females and are apt to loan them as much money as white males, according to a new study by University of Iowa sociologist Sarah Harkness. Conversely, loan applications from African-American males and white females are judged more strictly. Stereotypes about race, gender, work history, education and other factors shaped lenders' attitudes. Harkness...

Reporters from all over eastern Iowa came to Carver-Hawkeye Arena and the football practice field for an opportunity to interview the new assistant coaches and players during the 2013 Iowa Football Media Day Thursday, Aug. 8.

Backbone State Park is a haven for hikers, anglers, and those who just want to relax by a lake. Just 90 minutes north of Iowa City, the 2,000-acre park was Iowa's first designated state park and remains an unique attraction for adults and children alike.

Stephen A. Wynn has made a $25 million gift commitment to the University of Iowa to support the UI’s Institute for Vision Research. The gift, which was announced at today’s meeting of the Board of Regents, State of Iowa held in Ames, will be used to accelerate progress toward cures for rare, inherited retinal diseases.

In a new study, published online Aug. 8 in the journal Science, a University of Iowa team led by Kevin Campbell, Ph.D., has pinpointed not just one, but three proteins that are required for constructing a key, early section of a critical sugar chain. Mutations affecting any one of these three proteins can cause congenital muscular dystrophies in humans.

The construction of dams and other manmade structures introduced over the years has made it difficult if not impossible to link frequent flooding in Texas to climate change.

If you had one thousand pounds of river trash, what would you build? To anyone but David Williamson, the question posed by an Iowa Department of Natural Resources employee might have sounded absurd. But for the sculptor and recycling enthusiast, it sounded like a promising opportunity.

NanoMedTrix, a 1-year-old Coralville firm based upon University of Iowa research that may one day save lives by helping physicians identify bladder and colon cancers at early stages of development, recently received a grant that is the first of its kind.