The University of Iowa has its first seismometer. The next time you walk around the first floor of Trowbridge Hall, check out the monitor outside Bill Barnhart’s office. You might just witness an earthquake.

The awards are presented annually by Governor Branstad to top students in 10 ROTC programs at seven universities. The awards honor the cadets for leadership, academics, and military achievement.

West Branch native Conor Paulsen founded and runs a company that sells men's leather goods and encourages gentleman-like behavior. It’s going rather well.

The future home to studio arts on the University of Iowa campus is in its final stages of construction. Check out the latest progress on the flood-recovery project in this "Iowa Now" photo gallery.

Check out the latest progress on the new home for the University of Iowa School of Music in this “Iowa Now” photo gallery.

Andrew Richter, a second-year dental student, has received a scholarship from the American Dental Association Foundation.

Hawkeye Caucus Day brings 85 University of Iowa students representing 50 UI programs to the State Capitol in Des Moines to shake hands and exchange ideas with state legislators.

The Iowa Student Information System (ISIS) will soon be known as MyUI, and its new website will serve as a hub for students to access several of the UI systems and tools they use most.

Alliant Energy wants more drivers to consider buying electric vehicles in order to decrease greenhouse-gas emissions and is turning to business students at the University of Iowa and other Iowa universities for help.

A data-driven method for helping farmers decide what seed varieties to plant has landed a University of Iowa team of analytics experts in the finals of an international agricultural-management competition.

University of Iowa researchers are traveling to Iceland to better understand sand dunes found all over the planet Mars. They hope the Iceland site will show how Martian sands have changed, which could yield more clues about Mars's geological history and the possibility of discovering microbial life entombed there.

Tucked into the basement of the University of Iowa’s Seamans Center is the Engineering Machine Shop, a high-tech workshop where students provide consulting, design, prototyping, and fabrication services to faculty, staff, and peers at the UI.