A bicycle named ArrowHED, designed and built by UI art professor Steve McGuire, won Best Mountain Bike, Singletrack Choice Award, at Bespoked 2017, an international show for bicycle frame-builders held in Bristol, UK.

Kyle Munson takes a look at the collection of papers and personal artifacts recently donated to UI Libraries by UI alumnus and legendary newsman Tom Brokaw. The Brokaw Collection represents a behind-the-scenes glimpse into his decades-long career as a respected NBC journalist, including everything from leather-bound calendars to homemade valentines.

At the University of Iowa, Sam Van Horne, assessment director in the university’s Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology, and his staff members run a big-data project that provides students and instructors in certain courses with continually updated dashboards of information, including a forecast of the student's final grade.

Researchers at the University of Iowa find that administering high doses of intravenous vitamin C to cancer patients is safe; the method may also boost the results of chemo and radiation therapy.

What do particle diffusion and stock price prediction have to do with building a better HIV vaccine? According to University of Iowa microbiologist Hillel Haim, you can apply concepts from both to predict the evolution of HIV surface proteins, making it easier to design effective vaccines.

Millions of women die every year from the simple household task of cooking. The University of Iowa is hosting a group of internationally recognized experts at a conference, Women’s Health and the Environment: Going up in Smoke, to address the silent global crisis of cookstove smoke.

The Noddle, a device invented by UI-spinout company Voxello, is a technology that helps patients communicate with their health care providers, even though they are unable to speak.

University of Iowa researchers have documented for the first time how melanoma cells form tumors. The team reports the process is similar to that of breast cancer cells, and they have successfully screened for two antibodies that stopped tumor formation in both cancers. Results published in the journal “PLOS One.”

Evidence is growing that adding high-dose, intravenous vitamin C to standard chemotherapy and radiation treatment may improve outcomes for patients with a wide range of cancers. Researchers with Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Iowa report promising results from a phase 1 clinical trial.

Researchers at the UI’s Pappajohn Biomedical Discovery Building are working to eradicate diseases like diabetes, heart disease, and Alzheimer’s—and they rely on undergraduates for help. As early as their first year, UI undergrads get hands-on research experience and make important contributions to their fields.

Three University of Iowa graduate students are partnering with eastern Iowa communities to identify brownfields, sites where redevelopment has been complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant. The students are compiling a database to help local leaders determine which properties to remediate.

Baseball-Reference.com, the definitive online guide for baseball statistics, started out as a project that CEO Sean Forman worked on in his spare time while finishing his doctorate in mathematics at the University of Iowa. Tolerated by his non-baseball-fan advisor, the site is now Forman’s fulltime job.