A new University of Iowa study suggests that job candidate tests measuring flexibility, balance, and coordination are just as effective as those measuring brute strength, with less chance of gender discrimination.

The second annual Get Ready Iowa workshop will take place this Wednesday, July 24, in the Lindquist Center Jones Commons on the University of Iowa campus.

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

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The Surf Ballroom and the field where Buddy Holly's plane crashed are Iowa's most significant links to rock and roll history.

Three companies with ties to the University of Iowa have obtained funding from the state to expand their businesses, create jobs, and further develop their products. The companies, Memcine Pharmaceuticals, Inc., NanoMedtrix, LLC, and Iowa Approach, LLC were awarded direct financial assistance from the Iowa Economic Development Authority.

The UI will use a three-year, $1.2 million NASA grant to develop concepts and methods helping commercial airline crews avoid, detect, mitigate, and recover from hazardous situations that could lead to loss of control due to spatial disorientation.

Longtime University of Iowa faculty members Craig Zwerling and Nancy L. Sprince have established a new endowed scholarship fund to support students pursuing advanced degrees in the UI College of Public Health’s Department of Occupational and Environmental Health.

A student in a University of Iowa camp reported an assault that occurred in downtown Iowa City in the early afternoon of Monday, July 15.

More than 18,400 Iowa K-12 students learned about art through hands-on presentations featuring original works of art from around the world this past year, thanks to the University of Iowa Museum of Art.

Donald Black, director of the Psychiatry Residency Training Program in the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, will read from "Bad Boys, Bad Men" at 7 p.m. Thursday, July 18, in a free reading at Prairie Lights Books in downtown Iowa City. The reading also will be streamed live on the University of Iowa Writing University website.

University of Iowa student leaders met recently with Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad and Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds to discuss college affordability and job opportunities for Iowa students.