New year, new talent: Take a class or workshop in voice, dance, drama, writing and more from UAB’s ArtPlay Community ...

Handwriting remains crucial for cognitive development, fostering deeper information processing and stronger neural pathways than typing. Neat writing enhances visual-motor skills, working memory, and ...

Pneumonia, a largely preventable disease, caused more than two million deaths in 2021, according to the Global Burden of Disease report. Evidence-based guidance on its diagnosis and management is, ...

I also have, shall we say, a fragmented attention span, and my therapist likes to routinely bring up how many women my age have undiagnosed ADHD, which I now take as a not-so-subtle hint. So I need ...

Writing has always been the way I process ideas—I often say, “I think with a pencil.” Early in my career, I wrote about my practice simply for myself as a way to keep perspective, capture new ideas, ...

I f there’s been one constant in the nearly 30 years Kerry L. Beckford has been teaching, it’s this: College students aren’t particularly excited to take a required composition course. So Beckford, a ...

People often credit my good handwriting to my Catholic school education—like a nun with a ruler and a taste for corporal punishment perfected my penmanship. But that’s not why. It’s because of my mom.

The University of Iowa will discontinue the Iowa Youth Writing Project (IYWP) and the Iowa Summer Writing Festival at the end of 2025 due to funding changes. The Iowa Youth Writing Project serves K-12 ...