The second annual Get Ready Iowa workshop will take place this Wednesday, July 24, in the Lindquist Center Jones Commons on the University of Iowa campus.

UI senior Jolene Luther’s grandfather, William Holcomb, died from Huntington disease (HD) in the fall of 2011, but his impact lives on through the research Luther is doing this summer at the UI.

Daniel Reed, UI's vice president for research and economic development, writes about the global race to build ever-faster supercomputers and the need for radical innovations versus incremental, small steps.

A new, three-year research project at the University of Iowa is focused on helping pilots react and recover when the auto-pilot system in the plane malfunctions.

The Surf Ballroom and the field where Buddy Holly's plane crashed are Iowa's most significant links to rock and roll history.

UI faculty members Claire Fox and Omar Valerio-Jiménez led the 2013 Obermann Summer Seminar, gathering 14 distinguished scholars in Latino/a Studies to the University of Iowa, who helped create the anthology and web platform, The Latino Midwest Reader.

Author Elin Hilderbrand, who is promoting her new book Beautiful Day, attended graduate school at the University of Iowa, which she says has the best program in the country for creative writing.

Three companies with ties to the University of Iowa have obtained funding from the state to expand their businesses, create jobs, and further develop their products. The companies, Memcine Pharmaceuticals, Inc., NanoMedtrix, LLC, and Iowa Approach, LLC were awarded direct financial assistance from the Iowa Economic Development Authority.

Jana Klauke, director of MBA Career Services at the University of Iowa's Tippie School of Management, said reform could happen on an industry-by-industry basis, with resistance in some of the most competitive fields as part of a story on the future of unpaid internships.

A new UI Public Policy Center study says that 3 percent of Iowa children do not have health insurance, one of the lowest rates in the nation that could nonetheless be improved.

Partnerships with community colleges are one way the University of Iowa is reaching out to more students, UI President Sally Mason told The Messenger editorial board during a recent visit to Fort Dodge.

A student in a University of Iowa camp reported an assault that occurred in downtown Iowa City in the early afternoon of Monday, July 15.