Installations and Interactive Performance, a course cross-listed in the University of Iowa’s theater and dance departments, attracts students from different disciplines, teaches new ways of telling stories and engaging audiences, and does it all with help from some new technology.

Students in the University of Iowa's Initiative for Sustainable Communities will hold community meetings with residents of Mason City's North End during a dinner progressing through three neighborhood restaurants. The students are working with Mason City leaders to develop a comprehensive plan to help revitalize the North End.

Tippie undergraduate students Matt Hubbell and Molly Monroe took fifth place in this year’s Eller Ethics Case Competition, an annual event that challenges students to analyze a timely ethical case with real-world business relevance.

The University of Iowa chapter of Beta Alpha Psi has been named a Superior Chapter, the national accounting honor society’s highest recognition.

University of Iowa President J. Bruce Harreld considers the UI’s resiliency and its forward-thinking stance on everything from creative writing to computer engineering.

Fewer and fewer graduates of rural high schools are going to college. Charles Fluharty, director of UI's Rural Policy Research Institute, and Tippie College of Business student Dustin Gordon, from Sharpburg, Iowa (population: 89), look at possible reasons why.

The aim of the Be Better @ Iowa initiative is to make the University of Iowa a destination for tomorrow’s leaders. All incoming students take an online assessment to determine their top strengths. Programming throughout the year then shows students how to use that information to their advantage.

A curriculum developed at the University of Iowa that teaches STEM concepts to high school students will be used during the Day of Design, a national STEM education program, held on Oct. 6.

Starting in the fall of 2018, the University of Iowa will no longer require first-year students living in its residence halls to join a Living Learning Community (LLC). Rather, the UI will offer a new residential program that includes opt-in LLCs and supports new students as they transition to college.

Katharine M. Broton, assistant professor in the University of Iowa College of Education, will share a grant from the Kresge Foundation to study solutions to student homelessness and hunger.

More than 400 performances and numerous gallery showings at little to no cost for UI students give Hawkeyes a chance to experience the arts in myriad genres and performance spaces—experiences that often spark a lifelong passion.

The Innovations in Teaching with Technology Awards program is intended to support significant and innovative instructional technology projects that can directly impact student success and retention. Proposals will be accepted through Oct. 16.