The University of Iowa Museum of Natural History continues its fall Movies@MNH series Sunday, Dec. 2, at 2 p.m. in Macbride Auditorium. This month’s movie is “The Worm Hunters,” with a run time of 52 minutes. The movie series is a free family event open to the public.

Colleges are often perceived as leaning left, but research by social scientists at the University of Iowa College of Education suggests the reality is more nuanced and that the Greek system tends to be a locus for students who are more conservative.

The University of Iowa is seeing growing international student enrollment, especially from Chinese students. Five years ago the UI welcomed around 400 new international undergraduates; this fall that number jumped to well over 2,000.

The University of Iowa Museum of Art (UIMA) and School of Art and Art History (SAAH) will host Midwest Matrix, a free weekend-long tribute to mid-20th century fine art printmaking on Dec. 1 and 2. The event features a symposium, film world premiere, exhibitions, Iowa Print Fair, and more.

In what organizers believe to be a first, the UI's selection for 2012 Mom and Dad of the Year are husband and wife. Rich and Patti Schmitz, of Waterloo, were honored for their extensive volunteer work—and for their perseverance. Their home has been hit by a tornado twice in 10 years.

International students and scholars at the University of Iowa contributed more than $101 million toward the state of Iowa’s economy last year, according to data recently released by the National Association of Foreign Student Advisors.

More than 300 students from eastern Iowa and western Illinois attended the 16th annual UI College of Education's International Day for Human Rights Nov. 6. This year’s event focused on the “Human Right to Political Participation.” International Day is designed to educate students on local and global human rights issues.

NASA announced in a ceremony Friday that the recently launched mission studying the Van Allen Probes was renamed to honor the late James Van Allen, the head of the physics department at the University of Iowa who discovered the radiation belts encircling Earth in 1958.

Audrey Altman, master's student in the UI School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) in the Graduate College, will present “Attack of the Digital Map! The Wonderful Monsters We Create When Humanities and Technology Collide,” from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 15, in room 3052 of the University of Iowa Main Library.

University of Iowa President Sally Mason issued the following statement today: "Regarding the recent media reports about Peter Gray, it is a confidential personnel matter and the University of Iowa will not make any additional comment. However, I want to assure you that we are continuing to review all the details regarding this matter and how it was handled. Once all the facts are known, I will...

This year's UI Mom and Dad of the Year, Patti and Rich Schmitz of Waterloo, have experienced devastation and tragedy firsthand. Both were nominated by their daughter, UI student Anna Schmitz. Within the past 10 years, their home was struck by a tornado, in 2002 and 2007, respectively.

The Hawkeye Marching Band was singled out on Oct. 26 as one of the best college bands in the nation on CNN Headline News. Fans were able to nominate their favorite band; videos of the bands were then collected by the cable news network. Based on the submissions, CNN chose 14 bands from across the country for broadcast on their Morning Express show.