The University of Iowa’s Dev/Iowa program will host its first hackathon in downtown Iowa City on March 27-29.

In an article on the different forms computers and computing can take, University of Iowa computer scientist Douglas Jones says compatibility problems out-weigh the advantages of adopting ternary computing, which uses three possible values to solve problems instead of the usual two.

Spark Therapeutics, a company founded in part from research conducted at the University of Iowa, recently completed an Initial Public Offering (IPO), raising gross proceeds of $185 million. The offering was up-sized from an initial filing of $88 million.

Organized by our Faculty Fellows, we recently hosted the first in a series of "Ideas and Intersections” dinners. Each is designed to bring together scholars, researchers, artists, and thought leaders for an evening of discourse and discovery on important topics that lie at the interstices of our disciplines. The first of these, titled Epidemics: Countering (and Encountering) Exposure, explored the historical, cultural, technical, scientific and biomedical ideas surrounding the spread and tracking of disease and our evolving societal responses.