The University of Iowa honored five members of the armed forces for exceptional service to both their country and the Hawkeye community with a new award on Thursday night.

A new study from the University of Iowa finds that once we reach a conclusion, we aren’t likely to change our minds, even when new information shows our initial belief is likely wrong and clinging to that belief costs real money.

The University of Iowa Dance Marathon Allocations Committee voted to approve a new, significant funding request put forth by UI Children’s Hospital leadership: $2.2 million over three years to establish the UI Dance Marathon Pediatric Oncology Targeted Therapy Program.

A scholarship fund honoring an Iowa family’s three generations of commitment to higher education has been awarded to students from Iowa City and Spencer. First-year UI Doctor of Physical Therapy students Katherine Bird and Clare Goeken are recognized as the 2015-16 recipients of the Louis and Dorothy Laubenthal Memorial Scholarship.

The Tippie College of Business presented its Oscar Schmidt Iowa business leadership award to the family of Garry and Carlton Smith, owners and operators of the Sioux City-based American Popcorn Co., maker of Jolly Time popcorn.

The baseball statistics website Baseball-Reference.com started as a way to avoid writing a dissertation by a University of Iowa doctoral student.

In order to see the full academic picture found at the University of Iowa, you’ll need to look in all directions. Academic Panoramic provides a look at a cross section of the UI educational experience, from philanthropy and public health to theatre arts and sports analytics.

Fundamentals of Public Health is an introductory course offered by the UI College of Public Health. Beginning in fall 2016, the UI will also offer a public health bachelor’s program. The Fundamentals course will be part of the undergraduate curriculum.

Should a football team “go for it” on fourth down or punt the ball away? How in the world do you build the optimal fantasy football team? Jeff Ohlmann uses these scenarios as springboards toward better understanding of mathematical techniques and statistical probability in his first-year seminar, Sports Analytics.

There are some undeniable truths in life. One of them is that we will get older. Yet we don't really know how and why we age. It’s those central questions that Veena Prahlad is tackling in her undergraduate class, Mechanisms of Aging.

Students participating in the theatre class Movement Styles: Clown learn to "follow their nose," or confront their vulnerabilities, to create a unique clown character.

Controversy yields conversation. Conversation generates action. Action sculpts the future. The University of Iowa explores these ideas with the fall 2015 course Race and Social Justice After Ferguson.