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A veteran race car driver will try for this month's Indianapolis 500 with a Tigerhawk logo on his vehicle to raise awareness for an area of medical research close to his heart.

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

PhD candidate Eliot Shearer, M.D. and his colleagues discuss the OtoSCOPE, an innovative new testing platform that can scan all the genes in the time it would normally take to examine one gene.

University of Iowa public health professor Marizen Ramirez and researcher Wendy Ringgenberg are working to understand the connection between occupation and suicide, particularly among farmers.

The 1996 Indy 500 winner will use this year's run as a chance to raise awareness and funding for vision research at the University of Iowa.

A new study from the University of Iowa reports Iowa's air quality falls within government guidelines for cleanliness, based on data gathered at five locations statewide. The study analyzed air quality and pollution sources in the state and is the first to compare air quality in urban versus rural areas. Results appear in the journal Environmental Science: Processes and Impacts.

Coming in spring 2015, the University of Iowa's first theme semester will highlight perspectives on food—the traditions it inspires, its relationship with health, the economics behind its production, and much more.

A University of Iowa virologist who developed the first mouse model of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) says experience with the SARS outbreak in 2003-04 has helped with rapid MERS response.

The University of Iowa College of Public Health, led by dean Sue Curry, is building a network of southern Iowa business leaders interested in collaborating with the college to make their communities healthier.

Health care is an ever-evolving field. From classroom education to technology, clinical programs, and research, the UI College of Nursing is working on many fronts to not only respond to change, but to answer it with innovation.

Five staff members from the State Hygienic Laboratory at the University of Iowa are participating in Project AWARE, a Watershed Awareness River Expedition that will offer its first interstate river cleanup when the annual event launches this summer on the Big Sioux River.