Kyle M. Stein publishes article, "Use of intraoperative navigation for minimally invasive retrieval of a broken dental needle," in Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.

A new University of Iowa study, published in the journal "Fuel," documents that biomass burning has positive environmental and public-health effects. Co-firing oat hulls with coal reduced emissions of carbon dioxide, particulate matter, and heavy metals compared with burning coal alone.

Last academic year, more than 3,100 University of Iowa faculty and staff members made charitable donations to support the university, with their contributions amounting to more than $4 million. Now in its third year, We Are Phil will hold its annual appeal Sept. 28-Oct. 2 on the UI campus.

A new Pancheros Mexican Grill marketing campaign rolling out this week features a component developed by a team of UI marketing students as part of a class project.

Genetic testing revealed that Laila Walton possessed a variant of the gene associated with hypokalemic periodic paralysis, a rare kidney disorder, which may be responsible for her symptoms.

Brandon Gerleman and Morgan Brittain say it’s no coincidence they both grew up in the same small Iowa town and now hold campus leadership positions while students at the University of Iowa.

University of Iowa faculty and staff have a unique opportunity to be recognized in the new UI Children's Hospital on a special donor wall reserved just for UI employees.

The Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology in the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine will hold its annual memorial service for the Deeded Body Program at 1:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 25, at Oakland Cemetery, 1000 Brown St., in Iowa City.

Iowa Writers' Workshop graduates Angela Flournoy, Karen Bender, and T. Geronimo Johnson are among the authors on the National Book Awards longlist for fiction.

So far, a new program offered by the UI Chief Diversity Office designed to help faculty and staff strengthen diversity and inclusion has received a great deal of interest. The BUILD (Building University of Iowa Leadership for Diversity) initiative, a non-credit bearing certificate opportunity, started offering classes this fall.

Iowa Flood Center engineers will install stream-stage gauges along two flood-prone waterways in Davenport. The installation takes place on Thurs. Sept. 17. Media are invited.

Researchers in the University of Iowa Pappajohn Biomedical Institute have received a five-year, $11 million grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, to continue advancing gene therapy to treat and prevent cystic fibrosis, a life-shortening, lethal lung disease.