Nominations are being sought for University of Iowa faculty, staff and student researchers, creators, mentors, and entrepreneurs for the UI’s annual Discovery & Innovation Awards Ceremony, which will be held in April. The UI Office of Research and Economic Development, the Office of the Vice President for Finance and Operations, the Graduate College, the John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center, and...

UI Ventures hosted Manny Villafaña as the keynote speaker for the Iowa Connect Medical Technology Symposium last month at hotelVetro in downtown Iowa City.

UI Partners, part of the University of Iowa Office of Research and Economic Development, is hosting a logo contest for MERGE, the new creative factory in downtown Iowa City, scheduled to open next spring.

Renowned author Marilynne Robinson will deliver a lecture at the Englert Theatre on Wednesday, Dec. 9, as part of the Creative Matters lecture series sponsored by the University of Iowa Office of Research and Economic Development.

Dawn Bowlus, director of the Jacobson Institute for Youth Entrepreneurship in the John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center, received an Iowa Women of Innovation Award presented by the Technology Association of Iowa on Nov. 10.

Seventeen UI graduate students from across campus, representing four different colleges, have been selected for the seventh annual Obermann Graduate Institute on Engagement and the Academy.

Cochlear implants have revolutionized the treatment of hearing loss, but more than 50 percent of implant recipients experience additional hearing deterioration after initial hearing preservation surgery.

“I like to balance between reality and imagination,” Theo Jansen said Tuesday morning during the breakfast reception of his visit to the University of Iowa. “We have to dream our lives and not just exist.”

The University of Iowa Research Foundation (UIRF) has awarded $625,000 in gap funding to 10 faculty researchers whose projects have a strong potential for commercialization. These include proposals for a light-driven desalination unit, a device for detecting delirium in patients, and a news aggregator than can assess the political bias of news articles and aggregate content according to users’...

UI Partners, part of the University of Iowa Office of Research and Economic Development, recently launched a new website for IC Kitchen Connect, a toolkit for connecting food entrepreneurs and shared-use kitchen facilities in the area.