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.

University of Iowa marketing students are using their newfound expertise to help a pair of eastern Iowa towns build their economies by attracting new employers and new residents.

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.

The University of Iowa Phi Kappa Psi fraternity presented UI President Sally Mason with a check for $100,000, which will endow the Nile C. Kinnick Scholarship Fund. The endowment ensures scholarship awards for future generations of incoming UI freshmen with outstanding high school achievements.

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.

The UI College of Education hosted its annual Martin Luther King Jr. Research Symposium on Feb. 7. The event highlighted student research on issues of diversity, covering topics ranging from student interest in STEM to differences in moral reasoning in a religiously diverse student body.

The University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts will hold auditions Feb. 22 and 23 for four, Non-Equity actresses/singers for the 2014 summer tour of Respect: A Musical Journey of Women, part of the Iowa Summer Rep Tour 2014.

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.

Hancher is presenting the Jupiter String Quartet in collaboration with the University of Iowa’s String Quartet Residency Program Feb. 28 at the Riverside Recital Hall in Iowa City.

The Iowa City Police Department is currently investigating three sexual assaults with adult female victims while they were passengers in taxi cabs.