The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust has provided the Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI) Health Panel with a three-year, $600,000 award to continue its work providing science-based, objective policy analysis to federal and state health policy makers in the area of rural health.

A study by University of Iowa researchers finds little evidence of discrimination in the lack of black NFL head coaches, but questions the effectiveness of the league's so-called Rooney Rule.

Trends in alcohol-related issues will top the agenda for the bi-monthly meeting of the Partnership for Alcohol Safety Wednesday, Jan. 9, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Room 203 of the Johnson County Health and Human Services Building, 855 South Dubuque St., Iowa City.

A University of Iowa Public Health Ambassador makes it her mission to ensure that moms-to-be are well-informed about their babies’ health.

University of Iowa biologists have advanced their knowledge of human hearing by studying a similar auditory system in fruit flies—and by making use of the fruit fly “love song.” Results featured on the cover of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Ring in the New Year with old friends at the next University of Iowa Museum of Art First Friday reception from 5-7 p.m. on Jan. 4, at hotelVetro in downtown Iowa City.

The University of Iowa was ranked 49th among 100 four-year public colleges or universities as a best value in higher education by "Kiplinger's Personal Finance" magazine.

Although the first winter storm of the season is slowing things down a bit and making travel tricky, the University of Iowa campus—including UI Hospitals and Clinics—is operating normally today, Thursday, Dec. 20.

Children who had in-hospital cardiac arrest in 2009, were three times more likely to survive than children who had cardiac arrests in 2000. In addition, among surviving children, the risk of severe brain damage appears to have remained unchanged during this period.

A University of Iowa law professor believes the legal ramifications of geo-engineering need to be thought through in advance and a global governance structure put in place soon to oversee these efforts.

Despite a troubled first trimester, Alicia Ames entered her second trimester finally feeling good about her pregnancy. Then her water broke at just 20 weeks and she and her baby relied on UI Hospitals and Clinics and UI Children’s Hospital to see them through.

Why is the atmosphere of the sun far hotter than the surface of the sun? The answer, scientists believe, lies in the concept of turbulence, a phenomenon directly measured in the laboratory for the first time by a research team led by the University of Iowa.