It’s another year to remember for the University of Iowa Dance Marathon community. Dance Marathon 24 raised $3,011,015.24 to help fund pediatric cancer research at the University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital.

The UI Office of Research and Economic Development on April 9–11 will hold an “Ideas Lab,” where it will bring together 30 faculty and staff members from various disciplines to develop strategies for slowing, stopping, or reversing opioid abuse among Iowans. Those interested in participating can apply through Feb. 14.

A journal article submitted to Health Affairs by University of Iowa Public Policy Center researchers Natoshia Askelson, Brad Wright, Suzanne Bentler, Elizabeth Momany, and Peter Damiano was selected as one of editor-in-chief Alan Weil's editor's picks. Each year, Weil selects the 10 most noteworthy pieces of the year.

Fellows in the Obermann Graduate Institute on Engagement and the Academy explore how public engagement can enhance teaching, research, and creative work.

Researchers with IIHR—Hydroscience and Engineering and the Iowa Flood Center have identified three distinct clusters of “atmospheric rivers,” a step that could improve severe weather prediction and emergency preparation.

UI archivist David McCartney discusses the significance of papers donated to the University of Iowa by civil rights advocate Eric Morton who, along with a UI student, worked to register African Americans to vote in the 1960s. Several documents from the collections are on display at the Coralville Public Library.

The University of Iowa College of Education’s Yareli Mendoza has been appointed to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs advisory committee on women veterans.

The number of children in the United States diagnosed with autism may be significantly higher than previously thought, information that could lead to a reconsideration of how health care resources are allocated, according to a new University of Iowa analysis published in the “Journal of the American Medical Association” (“JAMA”).

Engineering students test their design and problem-solving abilities with a real-world waste water improvement project in Lake Delhi, a small Iowa community that was hit hard by flooding in 2010.

A class of marketing students in the Tippie College of Business is working with Pancheros Mexican Grill restaurants to develop ideas for its next chain-wide marketing campaign.

The Iowa Native Spaces project, led by graduate students and faculty from UI’s History Corps, works closely with tribal partners to help prevent the erasure of Meskwaki and Ioway history and bring Native perspectives to more Iowans.

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