UI Dance Marathon announced a $2 million gift commitment to establish the University of Iowa Dance Marathon Chair in Pediatric Oncology, Clinical and Translational Research. The gift will fund a faculty position in the UI Stead Family Department of Pediatrics to lead the pediatric cancer research program.

Using Twitter and some basic biographical information, UI PhD candidate Kristina Bigbsy can predict with 70 percent accuracy where a high school football player will decide to go to college.

A pair of University of Iowa alumni have been honored as Entrepreneurs of the Year by the American Farm Bureau Federation for the business, SwineTech, Inc., which they founded while UI students using resources of the John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center (JPEC).

SwineTech In., a business founded at the University of Iowa, has been honored as Entrepreneur of the Year by the American Farm Bureau Federation.

The University of Iowa has a new sandbox—and it’s used to explain gravity. Undergraduates in the Department of Physics and Astronomy designed and built an augmented-reality sandbox where users can design their own universe and then watch how gravity affects an object as it travels through the imagined environment.

The 45-year-old former Marine decided six years ago to get a college degree. After transferring from a community college to the University of Iowa, the Iowa native is on track to earn a Bachelor of Science degree in geosciences in May 2019.

A University of Iowa initiative called Tiny Trash encourages recycling and reduces waste on campus. More than 2,000 faculty and staff in 18 buildings have joined the effort, which ties into the UI’s goal to divert 60 percent of campus-generated waste to recycling by the year 2020.

Mark Wiesner has spent decades studying the potentially harmful effects of manufactured nanomaterials on the environment. His passion for protecting the planet was nurtured at the University of Iowa College of Engineering, where he worked alongside mentors who introduced him to environmental fieldwork and research.

The University of Iowa College of Education’s Yareli Mendoza has been appointed to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs advisory committee on women veterans.

Research by Tippie College of Business doctoral student Kristina Bigsby finds a link between a high school football recruit's Twitter activity and they college program for which they decide to play.

The number of children in the United States diagnosed with autism may be significantly higher than previously thought, information that could lead to a reconsideration of how health care resources are allocated, according to a new University of Iowa analysis published in the “Journal of the American Medical Association” (“JAMA”).

A high school student with autism in Hamilton, Ohio, received a $1,000 grant from the University of Iowa's Jacobson Center for Youth Entrepreneurship for his business, Turn Autistic To Artistic, that offers his insight to teachers using customized comic strip illustrations to teach life lessons to students with special needs.