Sherree Wilson has traveled Iowa from Sioux City to the Quad Cities, advising health care providers on culturally responsive care, where providers develop an understanding of the local patient population, recognize the potential for bias in encounters with their patients, and select tools for effective cross-cultural communication.

Dan McGehee, who studies driver safety at the University of Iowa, says Internet-connected cars could be a good thing, as long as automakers can figure out a way to keep people from fiddling with it while they drive.

New research from the University of Iowa shows that lower birth weight is associated with an increased risk for type 2 diabetes in White and Black postmenopausal women in the U.S.

Gov. Terry Branstad and Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds toured the Pappajohn Biomedical Discovery Building on Wednesday and praised its innovation and entrepreneurial spirit.

Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad and Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds visited the University of Iowa campus today, Tuesday, May 20, to meet with shared governance leaders and faculty involved in entrepreneurial work. During the visit, Branstad and Reynolds toured the new John and Mary Pappajohn Biomedical Discovery Building, which is scheduled to open in June.

Hit the road, faculty. About 30 UI researchers and scholars travel this week to northeast and southeast Iowa to meet with civic, education, political, and business leaders, part of the annual Faculty Engagement Corps, now in its ninth year.

The University of Iowa College of Public Health has reached a major milestone in "For Iowa. Forever More: The Campaign for the University of Iowa." More than a thousand donors have put the college within sight of its $25.8 million goal.

Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad and Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds will visit the University of Iowa campus Tuesday, May 20, to meet with shared governance leaders and faculty involved in entrepreneurial work, and tour the new John and Mary Pappajohn Biomedical Discovery Building.

Project SEALED, a partnership between the school systems in Waukon and Postville, Iowa, and the UI College of Dentistry provides discounted dental care to hundreds of students.

See a roundup of recent University of Iowa activities, research, public engagement, and campus life in Iowa Now Minute.

The spring 2014 UI Carver College of Medicine commencement ceremony will be streamed live from "Iowa Now." Streaming will begin shortly before the ceremony begins Friday, May 16, at 6:30 p.m. Archival video will replace the live stream on the "Iowa Now" page shortly after the ceremony concludes.

An experimental drug can lower levels of cholesterol by up to 75 percent when combined with a statin, UI researchers have found.