At an international competition in Italy, University of Iowa elementary education freshman Patricia Wilton recently came in fifth place for cross-country mountain unicycling in the 17- to 18-year-old female division.

The University of Iowa’s Hancher has spearheaded an effort that has resulted in Iowa City being chosen for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts' Any Given Child program, which creates a long-range arts education plan for students in grades K-8.

Robin Hemley, director of the University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program, will read from "Reply All," his new collection of short stories, at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 6, in Prairie Lights Books and through a live stream on the Virtual Writing University.

Alumna Gloria Zmolek, who teaches at Linn-Mar, has been honored with the 2012 Outstanding Secondary Art Educator of the Year Award by the Art Educators of Iowa.

Law professor and president emeritus Sandy Boyd was recently honored by the Eighth Circuit Bar Association for his work and career successes.

Kansas University has chosen Eula Biss’ collection of essays, “Notes From No Man’s Land,” as its inaugural "common book." Biss, an alumna of the UI Nonfiction Writing Program, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for the collection.

The Poetry Foundation and Poetry magazine have announced the winners of eight awards for contributions to Poetry over the past year, including two poets with ties to the University of Iowa.

Lauren Hughes, M.D., a 2009 graduate of the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, has been selected as a 2013 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar.

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