Five doctoral candidates in the University of Iowa Department of Psychology have received prestigious dissertation grants and awards this past year, helping to shape the future of the discipline.

A new initiative from the University of Iowa College of Law will allow undergraduate students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at both UI and Iowa State University to earn their bachelor’s and law degrees in six years.

UI graduate student Lindsay Eaves joined an international team of researchers this month to excavate early human fossil remains 100 feet below ground in the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site in South Africa. The cave is nearly inaccessible, but scientists hope the discovery there will revolutionize paleoarcheology.

University staff, faculty, students, and alumni are accomplishing great things every day. See who's making news with awards, publications, promotion and tenure, and more.

This week's news that comedian Andy Kaufman was alive turned out to be a hoax, but UI communication studies professor Kembrew McLeod writes that "Kaufman himself would have probably done it better."

In recognition of GIS Day and Geography Awareness Week, the University of Iowa Museum of Natural History will host a special geographic information systems (GIS) discussion at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 21, as part of its UI Explorers Seminar Series.

The University of Iowa CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) research group in the Department of Physics and Astronomy recently originated and completed an analysis which led to the discovery of a new and unexpected particle in proton-proton collision data recorded by the CMS detector.

Kirk and Mary Ferentz have made a gift commitment of $500,000 to support the Iowa Football Legacy Campaign. To date, more than $34 million has been raised for the campaign, which has a fundraising goal of $35 million.

Retired UI geophysics professor Ray Anderson says farmers bring him a lot of rocks they think might be meteorites, but they turn out to be "meteor-wrongs."

The University of Iowa School of Music will present a free performance by the Bad Boyz of Double Bass, featuring Volkan Orhon, UI associate professor of double bass, at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 18, in Riverside Recital Hall on the UI campus.

Are you one to burn the midnight oil? If so, you're invited to join the University of Iowa Rhetoric Writing Center staff for Midnight Madness walk-in tutoring on Tuesday, Nov. 19, from 8 p.m. to midnight in 110 English-Philosophy Building. Experienced tutors and teachers will be on hand to assist with personal statements, scholarship essays, proposals, creative writing, and more.

Lan Samantha Chang, director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, writes of the challenges of hand knitting gifts for family and other loved ones.