The State Hygienic Laboratory at the University of Iowa performed 490 arsenic tests for well water throughout Iowa. From these, 189 tests (38.6 percent) showed the presence of arsenic at or above the quantitation limit of 1 parts per billion (ppb). An interactive map is available for browsing.

Working Group Theatre takes anti-bullying show Out of Bounds on national tour with a stop in Chicago.

The University of Iowa has established an early entrance academy for high-ability 10th-graders, making it among the first of such academies at a public research university in the nation.

The University of Iowa Museum of Art (UIMA) set an all-time museum record for statewide participation and attendance at events during fiscal year (FY) 2015, drawing 221,879 people in Iowa. This significantly surpassed the previous record of 136,943 for FY 2014.

For 10 years, the Obermann Graduate Institute has helped nearly 200 UI graduate students from across disciplines think about how to weave engagement into their research and teaching. Taking It to the Streets, a symposium scheduled March 3-4, will commemorate the anniversary.

We must build our future at the University of Iowa on our heritage of strengths. That is particularly true for our mission of teaching and learning—how we provide the highest-quality educational experience for our students and how we most effectively train tomorrow’s teachers and educational leaders.

The UI Public Policy Center's four-part study shows something that's happening across the globe. Dentists are nearing retirement. The data showed Iowa dentists 55 and older nearly doubled from 23 percent to 42 percent between 1997 and 2013.

The Iowa Department of Public Health on Feb. 19 announced that an Iowa resident, who recently traveled to countries with ongoing Zika virus transmission, has tested positive for the virus. Iowans traveling to areas where there is ongoing Zika virus transmission should take care to protect themselves from mosquito bites.

As part of the University of Iowa Just Living Theme Semester, six new University of Iowa fellows are combining art and storytelling in the Office of Sustainability’s Climate Narrative Project to illustrate the staggering impacts of climate change and seek regenerative ways for climate action.

Mark McDermott, UI clinical associate professor in science education, discusses the benefits and challenges of being in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) profession and what the country and communities can do to make cities more appealing to STEM graduates and technology companies.

The policy briefs indicate a large number of Iowa dentists are nearing retirement age, fewer dentists are practicing in rural areas, and the proportion of dentists who work in solo practice is declining.

For more than 35 years, the University of Iowa College of Dentistry's Geriatric Mobile Unit has been providing care where nursing home residents need it: at the facility or, if necessary, even at the bedside.