University of Iowa News

Last February I joined a community choir assembled and directed by Dr. Mary Cohen from the University of Iowa.

Unemployment rates have risen in all the largest U.S. metropolitan areas for the fifth straight month.

A collection of musical scores by French composer and music publisher Ignaz Pleyel is now available online in the Iowa Digital Library.

Ethel Georgia King of North Liberty, Iowa, died on Saturday, June 27, 2009. Georgia was born to Addison Kistle and Louise Kistle on July 28, 1923, in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

An extraordinarily bright object in a galaxy 290 million light-years away could be a new type of black hole - one that Goldilocks would approve of.

Laid off workers packed Schwab Auditorium at the Coralville Public Library Wednesday for an employment workshop, desgined specifically for Iowans age 50 and older.

Des Moines University is seriously considering opening Iowa's first optometry school.

In the never-ending quest to generate more tax revenue, various outfits are researching the possibility of replacing the gas tax with a per-mile tax : The year is 2020 and the gasoline tax is history.

Many young smokers want to quit but don't know what methods work. The University of Illinois at Chicago is leading a $2.9 million National Cancer Institute project to increase demand for evidence-based, Internet-based smoking cessation treatment among young adults .

The University of Illinois celebrated its 138th commencement in May 2009. A report published later that month claims that the university keeps a little-known list that tracks applicants' political clout.

Nearly a quarter of a million dollars is coming to three Iowa colleges to help improve the number of nurses.

American Society of Hypertension Inc. David E. Stec, Ph.D., a Scranton native and assistant professor in the department of physiology and biophysics at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, Miss., was a recipient of an ASH Young Scholar Award.

A few dozen children in New York would like to tell Iowans "thank you" for giving them a day they always will remember.

The Riley Safety Store at Riley Hospital for Children, the first of its kind in the nation, serves as a model for children's hospitals across the nation.

My partner and I pulled into the Coralville Post Office three weeks ago to find a huge black Yukon parked with the windows up and a baby in a car seat sucking on a lollipop.

There's a good reason Dr. Michael Graham is the new president of an international scientific and medical organization.

Last year, the Press-Citizen reported that the University of Iowa's professors are overwhelmingly registered Democrats.

The Foundation for Physical Therapy, Alexandria, Va, board of trustees recently awarded a total of $210,000 in promotion of doctoral studies scholarships to 19 PTs.

Lychee is valuable. No other fruit grown in Hawai'i makes the police blotter as much as lychee.

Summer of Shakespeare is a new five-week summer day camp that introduces teens of all ages to Shakespeare.