The Midwest Melanoma Partnership, an initiative to advance melanoma research and improve care for patients with melanoma, was launched this month by a group of physicians, researchers, and patient advocates following a meeting at the University of Iowa.

An ingrained commitment to strong forestry practices and opportunities for students has earned the UI renewed recognition from the Arbor Day Foundation.

Actuaries are expected to be in demand in coming years. But what do actuaries do? Beyond something that involves math and insurance, explanations always seem mysterious and bizarre, something that only other practitioners of actuarial science can really understand.

A class offered this spring by the University of Iowa is helping entrepreneurs from around the state learn how to take their businesses global.

Leaders of Genesis Health System in the Quad Cities and University of Iowa Children’s Hospital in Iowa City announced Monday, April 2, that they are now caring for area children in a joint pediatric specialty clinic located in Bettendorf.

Social workers are invited to share hopes, dreams, fears, concerns, and experiences in first annual National Poetry Contest.

Alec Scranton, newly appointed engineering dean, is a fifth-generation Iowan and a University of Iowa alumnus.

Five faculty members in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences have been honored for their excellence in teaching and scholarship or creative work.

Farm Manuals Fast, based in the UI entrepreneurship incubator, has sold and downloaded more than 5,000 agricultural implement manuals to farmers in 22 countries in its first two years.

The UIMA@IMU will be closed Easter Sunday, April 8. A visual classroom of the University of Iowa Museum of Art, the UIMA@IMU is located in the third floor Richey Ballroom of the UI’s Iowa Memorial Ballroom.

The life and legacy of Bill Sacker will be celebrated on what would have been his 99th birthday Friday, April 13.

UI organizations sponsor education events as part of national push to combat prescription-drug abuse.