As throngs of University of Iowa students head back to campus this fall and the university welcomes a new first-year cohort, some 500 students will become the first occupants of the newest residence hall on campus: the Mary Louise Petersen Residence Hall.

University of Iowa junior softball player Haley Hansel is a Big Ten student-athlete, but that's not her only big role.

Students of all majors can benefit from the university’s top-ranked writing programs by completing an Undergraduate Certificate in Writing, which is offered through the Frank N. Magid Center for Undergraduate Writing in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Learn about some of the proposals for new businesses made during the John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center's Startup Games weekend to encourage UI student entrepreneurs.

The Iowa Institute of Human Genetics is offering a new test that will ensure that patients who may require specific pain medications, or need blood-thinning drugs to prevent heart attack or stroke, will receive medicine that is safe and effective, based on the patient's own genetic make-up.

Iowa is well equipped to become the first state in the nation with a roadway certified for driverless cars, and UI researchers recently met with government and transportation officials to discuss the possibilities.

University of Iowa Police have arrested one person in connection with multiple burglary reports in the Quadrangle Residence Hall earlier this year.

By tending to nearly half an acre on the west side of campus, the co-presidents of the UI Student Garden have learned to grow a variety of vegetable, herbs, and flowers. But they also have picked up valuable job skills, fine-tuned their career aspirations, 
and gained personal insight.

Baroque music scholars, performers, and aficionados will have their eyes on the UI Thursday, April 23, when the UI presents a free concert as part of a four-day conference and festival that is free and open to the public, sponsored by the Department of Classics and School of Music.

Retired developer and University of Iowa alumnus C. Allan Poots, who built more than 650 houses and multiplexes in the Iowa City area, says he got just what he needed from two engineering faculty members more than 50 years ago: a shot of confidence. Now he is paying them back.

The University of Iowa will host “It’s On Us" sexual violence education summit on Wednesday, April 22. The free event is open to all UI students, staff, faculty, as well as community members.

Roughly a year away from completion, Hancher has seen rapid progression over the past few months. Through these photos, take a tour of how the auditorium has progressed since December and get excited for the not-too-distant future.