American and Chinese students taking a business law class in the Tippie College of Business during the spring semester are working as consultants to help Iowa businesses that are considering expanding to China.

A miniature version of the University of Iowa's National Advanced Driving Simulator (NADS) is testing a new artificial lens implanted in cataract patients that may reduce nighttime headlight glare and make it safer to drive.

On June 3, the University of Iowa celebrated the reopening of the Iowa Memorial Union's ground floor. It's the first time the area has been open to the public since the June 2008 flood.

For the first time since it was immersed in floodwater seven years ago, the University of Iowa Memorial Union ground floor will be open to the public. University and local officials will commemorate the re-opening of the 83,000-square-foot space with a ribbon-cutting ceremony followed by self-guided tours on June 3.

A multi-center study led by infection control experts with UI Health Care finds that implementing a series of simple interventions before surgery can reduce the rate of surgical-site infections by up to 40 percent.

Radar technology from the UI will help a new NASA mission look for the building blocks of life on a distant moon.

A UI study shows that chronic exposure to a toxin made by staph bacteria produces in rabbits the hallmark symptoms of Type 2 diabetes, including insulin resistance and glucose intolerance. The findings suggest that eliminating staph bacteria or neutralizing the toxins might have potential for preventing or treating the disease.

Ever since joining her middle school mock trial team, Dubuque native Heather Jackson has practiced her trade with the hope of earning a law degree that would, one day, help her use her passion for argument to serve Iowans as a public defender.

UI Children's Hospital is home to Iowa's only nationally ranked neonatology program—reassuring news for a Cedar Rapids family.

The University of Iowa has teamed up with the National Science Foundation to establish a program for accelerating commercialization of technologies developed by student and faculty inventors and entrepreneurs, especially those developed by women.

Small schools in rural communities often have a hard time finding enough students and teachers to offer Advanced Placement (AP) classes. In Iowa, the state has worked to deal with the problem by offering online AP classes through the UI College of Education’s Belin-Blank Center.

The University of Iowa College of Engineering will require that all new undergraduate students take at least three semesters of creative art credit to earn an engineering degree, beginning in fall 2015.