Steve Gravelle

Pete’s Piano Service owner Pete Cacioppo, 58, has been in and around keyboards for 50 years.

When sharing the streets with vehicles is a necessary reality, cyclists can take some simple precautions.

Utility engineers and crews have extensive experience in securing the nation’s power grid — some 120,000 miles of transmission lines operated by 500 companies and cooperatives — against natural disaster. Researchers and engineers in Iowa are working to ensure the system is safe from intentional sabotage by hackers.

Cancers of the eye are exceedingly rare, and only a rare handful of cancer clinics in the nation are equipped to deal with them.

Awareness of sleep apnea and its relatively common and effective treatment has grown over the past three decades.

UI Venture School, NewBoCo and more help budding entrepreneurs take the first leap.

New Bohemian Innovation Collaborative, Inc. draws on resilience and adaptability to grow the region’s economy.

For people with diabetes, blindness can be a real threat. Because serious eye disease can be present with few symptoms or even none at all, people with diabetes should have a thorough eye exam at least once a year.

The first of its kind in the nation, the Geriatric and Special Needs Clinic at the University of Iowa’s College of Dentistry trains future dentists in the conditions specific to aging adults and those with developmental disabilities.

Keeping local jobs local is often cited as a prominent advantage for ESOP companies and their communities. That benefit is gaining new appreciation for another reason.

Recognizing the role employee ownership can play in the vitality of Iowa communities led to the launch in May of the Iowa Center for Employee Ownership (IA-CEO), aimed to support and promote employee ownership among Iowa businesses. ADVANCE IOWA manages IA-CEO operations.

Reliable transportation is one of the building blocks for growing any local economy.

Ride meant to raise money for oral health for needy Iowans

Played by all ages, pickleball is particularly popular in school physical education programs and in adult living communities.

Local seniors keep social tradition of square dancing alive.