Dubuque’s partnership with the UI Initiative for Sustainable Communities is highlighted in a new book, which provides guidance to municipalities and their partners engaged in measuring the livability and resilience of their communities.

Growing up in a low-income neighborhood near Santiago, Chile, UI College of Engineering alumnus Marcelo Mena-Carrasco recalls playing in a creek polluted with trash and wastewater. When he discovered a scorecard from his own family's card game in the trash, he had an epiphany—he might be part of the problem, but he could also be part of the solution.

The University of Iowa will host scholar and lecturer Alexandre Dauge-Roth Monday, Nov. 11, at 6:30 p.m. in 315 Phillips Hall. Dauge-Roth will use documentary films to explore the voices of survivors and other topics related to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

The Memorial Honor Roll at the Iowa Memorial Union, which recognizes UI students and alumni who have given their lives in service to the nation as members of the armed forces, is now also accessible online.

Watch the University of Iowa's new campaign video with the theme "For Iowa. Forever More." This video brings the UI's fundraising priorities to life: educating UI students and ensuring a healthier and more sustainable world through scientific and medical discoveries.

Researchers at the University of Iowa have created an implantable bio patch that regrows bone in a living body, using existing cells. The team created a scaffold seeded with plasmids containing the genetic information for producing bone. The plasmids are absorbed by bone cells already in the body, spurring new growth. Potential applications extend to dentistry. Results appear in the journal...

The University of Iowa has been recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as a leader in green power use and is ranked No. 21 on EPA’s Top 30 On-site Generation list of largest green power users.

Josh Frahm teaches STEP (Student to Employed Professional), a brand-new, for-credit course aimed at University of Iowa students who are starting out in part-time jobs during school. The goal: make a college job the foundation for a career.

Capt. James Yee will speak on Veterans Day, Monday, Nov. 11, about his experiences as an Army chaplain at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, at 7 p.m. in C20 Pomerantz Center on the University of Iowa campus. His talk, which is free and open to the public, is titled "Guantanamo: Justice and Human Rights."

The University of Iowa String Quartet Residency Program—coordinated by violist Elizabeth Oakes, lecturer in the UI School of Music—will welcome the Daedalus Quartet on campus Nov. 11-18, with the residency focusing on the theme of “music from exile.”

The University of Iowa Obermann Center for Advanced Studies will host an Obermann Afternoons Talk, “Integrating Public Health with Engineering to Improve Teen Driving Safety,” Wednesday, Nov. 13, at 4 p.m. in the Obermann Center.

Affluent girls residing in two-parent homes are much less likely to be sexually assaulted than other female youth, according to a new study conducted by University of Iowa School of Social Work professor Amy Butler.