Trespasses recounts the coming of age of three generations in the rural Great Plains. In examining how class, race, and gender play out in the lives of two farm families who simultaneously love and hate the place they can’t escape, Johnson presents rural whiteness as an ethnicity worthy of study.

University of Iowa Recreational Services is offering a spring break tennis camp for children ages 6–16 from March 12–16.

A new website offers a one-stop online shop for news, multimedia, and features about University of Iowa people and programs, sharing stories designed to inform, intrigue, and inspire.

The University of Iowa has received a grant of nearly $100,000 to offer a professional training program for teachers of Russian as a foreign language in the United States. The program is supported by STARTALK, a National Security Language Initiative launched by the White House in 2006 to promote the teaching and learning of strategically important world languages that are not widely taught in the...

UI Recreational Services is offering spring yoga and Zumba classes for third through eighth graders.

Fifteen University of Iowa faculty members received support to fund research projects that represent educational research at its best: “critical, purposeful, and solutions-oriented,” according to UI College of Education Dean and Professor Margaret S. Crocco.

Cassandra Storlie, a third-year counselor education and supervision doctoral student in the University of Iowa College of Education, was selected as a recipient of the Chi Sigma Iota Leadership Internship for 2012-13.

A new clinical trial conducted by University of Iowa researchers shows that delivering high doses of "load," or stress, to bone through programmed electrical stimulation of the muscle significantly slows the loss of bone density in patients with spinal cord injury (SCI).

A computerized system for scheduling final exams eases calendar conflicts, while student-driven policy changes support academic success.

UI Recreational Services is offering a course for those who are interested in receiving an American Red Cross Universal Certificate indicating certification in Lifeguarding/First Aid/CPR/AED. The course runs Mar. 23–25.

Businesses may be in a hiring mood if the numbers at February's University of Iowa spring job and internship fair were any indication.

Money is great for buying stuff, but a new study by University of Iowa finance professors suggests it's also useful for keeping score and might help people make better decisions.