University of Iowa faculty and students are immersing audiences in a virtual reality theater experience that integrates live performances.

University of Iowa students from disciplines across campus gain valuable research and professional experience working in the UI Stanley Museum of Art and with its curators.

A new study from the University of Iowa finds rural hospitals that use telemedicine to back up their emergency room health care providers not only save money but find it easier to recruit new physicians.

Micropatches could change the way vaccines and medicines are delivered in the U.S. and around the world, including many developing countries. Iowa researchers are testing the use of these patches on diverse populations to ensure patients receive optimal health benefits.

A study from the Tippie College of Business finds that the use of visiting clinicians can effectively increases access to orthopedic care in rural hospitals that can’t afford to have an orthopedist on staff. 

A study by College of Public Health researcher Kelly Baker highlights the relationship between adverse birth outcomes and sanitation access, domestic water fetching, crime, and gender-based harassment. It finds that the more time a woman spends fetching water, the more likely she is to have a low birth weight baby. 

UI researchers are looking into the ways that the neighborhood you live in contributes to your health. Qian Xiao, assistant professor of health and human physiology, and postdoctoral researcher Dong Zhang worked with Iowa collaborators and others further afield to track cancer rates and mortality in various communities.

Tianlu Zhang, a PhD student in second-language acquisition, was named the winner of the 2018 3MT contest.

Students, faculty, and researchers across the Midwest and beyond will gain crucial access to large research datasets through a secure, cloud-based platform called Collaborative Archive & Data Research Environment. CADRE will be developed through a large-scale partnership that includes eight Big Ten universities, a federal funding agency, and private companies.

University of Iowa music therapist PhD student Alaine E. Reschke-Hernández planned and facilitated a study in four Iowa nursing homes to examine the effectiveness of music therapy intervention for people with Alzheimer’s or related dementias.