Instead of traditional May Day baskets for friends, UI freshman and Sioux City native Bridget Blair purchased items like toothpaste, soap, and socks and distributed May Day packages to homeless people on Iowa City's Pedestrian Mall.

A number of graduating University of Iowa students will be walking across the stage at commencement this week and right into one of the state’s “hot jobs,” as identified by Iowa Workforce Development.

A media availability will be Monday, May 12, from 1 to 2 p.m. in 2780 University Capitol Centre, when officials announce a new initiative to help student veterans succeed thanks to a partnership with the Iowa City VA Health Care System and the University of Iowa, The program, the first of its kind in the nation, is called the Iowa Consortium of Veteran Excellence.

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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.

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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.