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

Just after midnight Friday police reported a shooting in the area of Melrose and Mormon Trek.

This fall, UI students in participating courses will have a chance to try out electronic textbooks free of charge as part of a pilot project to examine the effectiveness of e-texts. Participation is limited; instructors should express interest by July 1.

Emergency warning sirens, including several on the University of Iowa campus, will sound a day later than usual in July because of the Independence Day holiday.

The University of Iowa College of Public Health and the Iowa Cancer Consortium today announced the release of a new video intended to educate physicians on the dangers of radon and the link between the radioactive gas and lung cancer.

A new UI study shows that a natural substance found in apple peel can partially protect mice from obesity and some of its harmful effects. The findings suggest that ursolic acid increases muscle and brown fat, two tissues recognized for calorie-burning properties.

Novelists Steven Torriano Berry and Elizabeth Crane will read from their new books in free June 27 and 28 events at Prairie Lights Books.

The National Iowa Varsity Club has extended the registration deadline for its inaugural Fitness for Life run to Wednesday, June 27. The one-mile Fun Run and 5K events will be held Saturday, June 30, at the Ashton Cross Country Course in Iowa City.

With the Fourth of July falling in the middle of the week, the UIMA@IMU, a visual classroom of the University of Iowa Museum of Art, will be closed on Monday, July 2 and Wednesday, July 4.

Poet Elizabeth Robinson will read from her newest collection at 7 p.m. Friday, June 29, in Prairie Lights Books and on the Writing University website of the University of Iowa.

The Supreme Court will hand down its decision about health care reform soon, perhaps sealing the fate of the law's health insurance plan. But a University of Iowa insurance researcher says health insurance really isn't insurance at all.

Researchers at the University of Iowa, together with colleagues from the California Institute of Technology and New York University, have discovered how a part of the brain helps predict future events from past experiences.