Adults who reported that they lifted weights had a lower risk of mortality than those who did not, according to a new study led by Jessica Gorzelitz, an assistant professor of health promotion in the Department of Health and Human Physiology at the University of Iowa.

Stephen Bloom’s latest nonfiction book explores the saga of a rural Iowa teacher who became world famous after importing a controversial social experiment on racism into her classroom and around the globe.

UI assistant professor Cara Hamann is quoted in this NBC News story about how car crashes are killing more and more people since the start of the pandemic — even though the volume of traffic hasn’t risen above pre-pandemic levels.

Amid a nationwide debate over a once-obscure academic movement, UI Professor Victor Ray offers Americans a primer on its core concepts.

Gregory Carmichael, the Karl Kammermeyer Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering and director of the University of Iowa Informatics Initiative, has been named a fellow of the American Meteorological Society.

Allison Jaynes, associate professor in the University of Iowa Department of Physics and Astronomy, has been selected to serve on the Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics) Decadal Survey Steering Committee, established by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. As a member of the committee, Jaynes will help will set NASA’s priorities in solar and space physics for the next 10 years and beyond.

Researchers at the University of Iowa have produced definitive evidence that a specific region in the brain, called the subthalamic nucleus, is critical to governing the mind’s communication with the body’s motor control system. The findings could yield advances in treatment for Parkinson’s disease.

The key to a successful invasion may lie in living fast and dying young. University of Iowa biologists studying a species of freshwater snail found that lineages that were the most successful invaders matured and reproduced more quickly than noninvasive counterparts within the species.

Pharmaceutical scientists at the University of Iowa have found that charged nanoparticles combined with a vaccine were effective in eliminating tumors or extending life span in mice with melanoma tumors. The nanoparticle could be mass manufactured, stored at room temperature, and administered by phy