The UI’s MADE program harnesses the existing capabilities of faculty and staff, as well as specialized university manufacturing and prototyping facilities, to create a “virtual” medical device company. MADE provides a system for bringing innovative but inexpensive medical inventions into production.

Four University of Iowa debaters won a national title March 18 at the Cross Examination Debate Association National Tournament.

A new, growing group of scientists at the University of Iowa is researching how to address the storage and potential reuse of nuclear waste. Armed with grants from various federal agencies, UI faculty in chemistry, engineering, and radiology also are educating undergraduate and graduate students about the work.

Kevin Washburn, Regents professor of law and former dean at the University of New Mexico School of Law, has been named the N. William Hines dean of the University of Iowa College of Law. He will begin on June 15.

Each year, “U.S. News & World Report” ranks professional schools in business, education, engineering, law, medicine, and nursing. Read the 2019 rankings for each respective college at the UI.

Howard Hu, founding dean of the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and Professor of Environmental Health, Epidemiology, Global Health, and Medicine at the University of Toronto, is the second candidate for the next UI College of Public Health dean. He will visit campus March 20 and 21.

Sue Curry, University of Iowa interim executive vice president and provost, has been appointed as chair of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.

Dimy Doresca, director of the UI Institute for International Business, says that a trade war sparked by proposed tariffs on steel and aluminum would not be good for Iowa's economy or its workers.

Cher Carney and Michelle Reyes, research associates in the National Advanced Driving Simulator (NADS), will receive the Iowa Commissioner’s Special Award for Traffic Safety during ceremonies in Des Moines on April 26 to recognize their work with teen driver safety.

Sarah Gardial, dean of the University of Iowa Tippie College of Business, says students are less interested in full-time MBA programs and are looking more at lifelong learning experiences to improve their workplace skills.

An estimated 6,300 Iowans will die from cancer in 2018, 18 times the number killed in auto accidents, according to a new report released today by the State Health Registry of Iowa, based in the University of Iowa College of Public Health.

Ann Scheck McAlearney, director of the health services research program and professor of family medicine at the Ohio State University College of Medicine, is the first finalist for the next University of Iowa College of Public Health dean. She will visit campus Monday and Tuesday, March 5 and 6.