Mention the University of Iowa's membership in the Big Ten Athletic Conference, and most people think sports. But there's far more to it than that. The UI also benefits from an academic collaboration with other Big Ten universities and the University of Chicago through its membership in the Committee on Institutional Cooperation.

Ally Disterhoft has always dreamt big. She has the poster to prove it.

Iowa City Police have arrested a suspect in connection with a HawkAlert on campus in February.

Faculty and alumni of the UI School of Music made a strong showing at the annual conference of the Society for American Music in Sacramento this March.

UI Political Science Professor Cary Covington weighs in on presidential prospects for 2016 following Ag Summit.

Iowa Writers' Workshop faculty member Marilynne Robinson won the National Book Critics Circle Award for her novel Lila, the final book in her trilogy set in the fictional Gilead, Iowa.

The Honors Program has selected Tom Keegan for the Honors Award for Campus Support for 2014-15.

A new study from the University of Iowa reinforces the connection between good nutrition and good grades, finding that free school breakfasts help students from low-income families perform better academically.

The latest annual report on cancer in Iowa estimates 16,900 new cancers will be diagnosed among Iowa residents in 2015. In addition, an estimated 6,400 Iowans will die from cancer, according to the “Cancer in Iowa: 2015” report released Friday, March 13, by the State Health Registry of Iowa, based in the University of Iowa College of Public Health.

University of Iowa President Sally Mason may be retiring at the end of the school year, but on Monday, she stopped in Davenport to share some Hawkeye history.

R. William “Bill” Van Sant and Marilyn J. Van Sant, of Bayfield, Wisconsin, have established a $3 million bequest for the University of Iowa College of Engineering that will have an impact across the college, supporting scholarships, faculty and innovation.

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