When the College of Public Health announced it was starting a new student ambassador program to put a “face” on the college, Carmen Smith knew she wanted to be a part of it. Her enthusiasm for the ambassador program is eclipsed only by her excitement about her studies and career path.

Students from Mount Mercy University, Coe College and Kirkwood Community College raised $25,691.80 during the second annual Cedar Rapids Dance Marathon on Saturday, April 14.

Specialists in the UI Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery will offer free screenings for oral, head and neck cancer from 8 a.m. to noon on Wednesday, April 25, at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City.

Doctoral student Erin Heiden, a behavioral health and injury prevention researcher, found high overuse injury rates in certain women's sports.

Marianne Smith, UI assistant professor of nursing specializing in dementia care, comments on an innovative Dutch nursing home that looks and operates like a village.

UI premature infant specialist Edward Bell explains how Argentina's "miracle morgue baby," who survived 12 hours without assistance before being discovered alive, could have been declared dead.

United States Poet Laureate Philip Levine will give the keynote address at the sixth annual writing conference presented by the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine.

The UI Heart and Vascular Center is using a breakthrough approach called Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement to treat certain elderly and high-risk patients with severe stenosis—a narrowing of the heart’s aortic valve.

Experts at Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Iowa are the first in the state to offer intraoperative radiation therapy (IORT) for breast cancer patients. The treatment allows a therapeutic dose of radiation to be delivered immediately following surgery while the patient is still in the operating room.

Work crews will remove and dispose of three quart-size containers of ethyl ether from the University of Iowa’s Medical Labs Wednesday afternoon, starting around 5 p.m.

Mount Mercy University in Cedar Rapids will host the second annual Cedar Rapids Dance Marathon from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, April 14, in the Hennessey Recreation Center at Mount Mercy University.

Mariannette Miller-Meeks, director of the Iowa Department of Public Health, will speak as this week’s Policy Matters’ guest lecturer on the topic of health care policy at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 11 in the University of Iowa Main Library's Shambaugh Auditorium.