Jackson Pollock's "Mural," Iowa's most famous painting and one of the world's most significant and iconic Modern masterpieces, will return to Iowa this summer after nearly two years of conservation work by the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Getty Conservation Institute in Los Angeles.

The University of Iowa is working to build the first of what it hopes will be a series of “engagement centers” across the state staffed with people trained to work with communities and businesses to help them be successful.

A University of Iowa phonetics website that has become an incredibly popular English as a Second Language (ESL) teaching tool is now available as a mobile application for iOS and Android.

The UI's William Field, who studies the health effects of radon but did not participate in a new study suggesting that energy efficiency measures trap more radon in homes, says testing a home for radon is essential.

Until cars can drive themselves, drivers will find themselves benefiting from advanced safety information systems, some of which are just around the corner and being studied by researchers such as University of Iowa's Mark Schall, a doctoral student in the UI College of Engineering.

The Operator Performance Laboratory in the UI College of Engineering and the UI REACH program in the UI College of Education are featured on the new Iowa edition of "BTN LiveBIG Iowa" airing Saturday Jan. 25, at 3 p.m. CST.

Officials at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics will offer a new Spanish course this spring for the medical staff to better accommodate the growing Latino population in Iowa.

UI vehicle safety researcher Dan McGehee supports the proposal to upgrade distracted driving to a primary offense because, he says, while things like food and pets can draw your attention away from the road, cell phones do it more often, and for longer amounts of time.

The real-life hero who inspired George Clooney's character in the film The Monuments Men was a UI graduate named George Leslie Stout,“...a no-nonsense Iowa guy who established art conservation,” says Sean O’Harrow, director of the University of Iowa Museum of Art.

Iowa Writers' Workshop alumnus Charles D’Ambrosio will present a free reading at 8 p.m. Monday, Feb. 3, in the Frank Conroy Reading Room of the Glenn Schaeffer Library, adjacent to the Dey House.

Do any of your New Year’s resolutions involve losing weight or improving your physical fitness? If so, consider signing up for the 10-week Live Healthy Iowa program. liveWELL offers participation incentives to UI faculty and staff.

UI study abroad advisor Sarah McNitt‘s run on the TV quiz show “Jeopardy!” ended Tuesday after six games, but her work has just begun—she plans to leverage a portion of her winnings for a memorial in Iowa to her mother who died in October from leukemia.