Last year the University of Iowa's College of Dentistry established a community partnership with Allamakee County in an effort to bring dental hygiene and education to the county. With this partnership in mind, the College of Dentistry joined with the College of Education to create an outreach effort called Project SEALED (Service, Engagement and LifeCareer Education in Dentistry). Recently...

Adam Keune, Alec Whitters, and Ben O'Connor co-founded the new Coralville-based startup, Higher Learning Technologies, located in the UI's Oakdale Research Park.

An anonymous person paid the bill and wrote a note of thanks to members of the UI AirCare team who were dining at a restaurant after attending a memorial service for three members of the Mercy Air Medical Team killed in a medical helicopter crash.

A group of University of Iowa law students is helping health care and social service agencies negotiate an array of federal and state health privacy laws to better help mental health and substance abuse clients get the services they need.

The Newcomers Group of The University Club will meet from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 17 at the Coralville Public Library.

University of Iowa wellness programs cost about $120 per employee and about $15 per student annually, an investment officials say has paid off in fewer sick days, lower insurance costs, and some reduced harmful behaviors among students.

Spencer Gillis left Iowa City for New York City in 2006 to pursue a dream career in the film industry and has since worked as a freelance camera operator on dozens of TV and film projects. His directorial debut recently was selected to be screened in the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.

Nine-year-old Virginia Buck of Pennsylvania asks people to donate a few pennies for her water-cooler jug, which she fills with money and sends to the University of Iowa Huntington's Disease Society of America Center of Excellence for research to help other kids with the disease.

Hualing Nieh and her late husband, Paul Engle, founded the University of Iowa International Writing Program in 1967. IWP has since hosted more than 1,000 writers from 120 countries and regions. Nieh and IWP are the subject of a new documentary, One Tree: Three Lives.

"Western Africa Before the Boats," an exhibition at the African American Museum of Iowa in Cedar Rapids, brings alive pre-colonial Western Africa—and the School of Art and Art History and UI Museum of Art are playing an important role.

A team of researchers led by the University of Iowa says a third mammoth has been located at a dig site in southern Iowa. The mammoths—at least two of them of the woolly species—roamed Iowa some 14,000 years ago. The team—including several UI undergraduates—is cleaning the bones at the UI's Museum of Natural History and preparing to resume digging in the spring.

Mary C. Noonan, associate professor of sociology at the University of Iowa and co-author of the recent study "The Hard Truth About Telecommuting," shares insights about the impact of telecommuting on family time and employee productivity.