The UI Dance Marathon raised a record $1.8 million with the leadership help of college students from the Quad-Cities—Daniel Morse, a 2009 graduate of Pleasant Valley High School, and Taylor McKee, a 2010 graduate of Clinton High School.

Members of the public recently got a behind-the-scenes preview of a ground-breaking play designed to shine a light on—and stir public conversations about—one of the most pressing social issues of the day: cyber-bullying among teens.

Even with basketball season in full swing, University of Iowa men's basketball coach Fran McCaffery continues to help with cancer awareness and fundraising for cancer research.

Distracted driving is a public health and safety issue. That’s what legislators heard last week from professor Shaun Vecera, a psychologist at the University of Iowa who does research on distraction.

University of Iowa aging experts are working with Iowa City officials to assess needs for senior services as the city's population ages.

The University of Iowa will host the traveling exhibit “Black Health Legends - Pioneers Who Dared to Care” on the health sciences campus in February and March. The display features notable achievements of African-American health care pioneers.

Illusionist Kevin Spencer worked recently with University of Iowa physical therapy students to show them how magic can help make rehabilitation more fun and less frustrating for patients.

University of Iowa Children’s Hospital is calling on all young artists for help in a new project launching this spring.

Marizen Ramirez, University of Iowa associate professor of occupational and environmental health, has been approved for an estimated funding award of $1.7 million by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to study how parents can help their children recover emotionally and socially from traumatic injuries.

A new UI study shows that police officers move as much on the job as someone holding a baby or washing dishes. The finding comes from police wearing armbands that monitored their physical activity. Results appear in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

A study led by Phil Polgreen of the UI Carver College of Medicine finds that routine childrens' visits to the doctor could be the source of hundreds of thousands of flu-like infections every year.

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